| Acronym | Meaning |
| SSF | Slow Sand Filtration (water Treatment) |
| FOPIM | First Order Perturbation Iteration Method |
| ALL | Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia |
| XAPS | X-ray Appearance Potential Spectroscopy |
| ELOG | Epitaxial Lateral Overgrowth |
| PAPVD | Plasma-assisted Physical Vapor Deposition |
| LARIS | Laser Ablation And Resonance Ionization Spectroscopy |
| G.P. | Guinier-Preston Zone |
| ELMO | Energy-localized Molecular Orbital |
| IGC | Inverse Gas Chromatog. |