| Acronym | Meaning |
| NOES | National Occupational Exposures Survey |
| PDFT | Perturbation Density-functional Theory |
| WINS | Well Impactor Ninety-Six |
| UCC(N) | Unitary Coupled-cluster [truncated To Nth Order] |
| CDWF | Correlated-determinant Wave Function |
| EGBD | Extrinsic Grain Boundary Dislocation |
| SAFIR | Smoke Gas Anal. By Fourier Transform IR Spectroscopy |
| EBB | Electronic Bulletin Board |
| CTIO | Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory |
| SBCPA | Single-bond Coherent Potential Approximation |