| Acronym | Meaning |
| MDR | Multidrug Resistance |
| ALD | Atomic Layer Deposition |
| BIFL | Burst Integrated Fluorescence Lifetime |
| FFPC | Forced-flow Planar Chromatog. |
| SCBC | Self-consistent Basis And Configuration |
| TBM | Thyssen Blowing Metallurgy |
| ISIS | Image-selected In Vivo Spectroscopy |
| SSMBE | Solid Source Molecular Beam Epitaxy |
| MS | Multiple Scattering |
| SCLR | Single Configuration Linear Response (theory) |