| Acronym | Meaning |
| PSD | Position Sensitive Detector |
| SAMOS | System For Automated Monitoring Of Org. Pollutants In Surface Water |
| HARMS | High Aspect Ratio Microstructure |
| MMI | Man-machine Interface |
| CB1 | Corrected First Born (perturbation Theory In Atom-ion Collisions) |
| ZTA | Zirconia-toughened Alumina |
| QIT | Quadrupole Ion Trap |
| DGEBA | Diglycidyl Ether Of Bisphenol A |
| FTHFB | Finite-temperature Hartree-Fock-Bogolyubov |
| NSE | Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation |