| Acronym | Meaning |
| BOA | Bond Orbital Approximation |
| BHA | 3-tert-butyl-4-hydroxyanisole Par |
| ASPRS | American Society Of Photogrammetry And Remote Sensing |
| MPIF | Metal Powder Industries Federation |
| DCTS | Discharging Current Transient Spectroscopy |
| SHED | Sealed Housing For Evaporative Detn. |
| RFA | Renormalized Free Atom (model |
| NITM | Normalized Irreducible Tensorial Matrix |
| BSCCO | Bismuth Strontium Calcium Copper Oxide |
| GGC | Generalized Gradient-corrected (density-functional) |