| Acronym | Meaning |
| ADP | Auger Depth Profiling |
| ABET | Accreditation Board For Engineering And Technology |
| STEL | Short Term Exposure Limit |
| AMS | Aerospace Material Specification |
| FOEA | First-order Error Analysis |
| MSO | Modified Slater Orbital |
| BALR | Broad Absorption Line Region |
| BWEN | Brillouin-Wigner (second-order Perturbation Theory With) Epstein-Nesbet (energy Denominators) |
| QGP | Quark Gluon Plasma |
| IIXS | Ion Induced X-ray Spectroscopy |