| Acronym | Meaning |
| PECVD | Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition |
| SDO | Shielded Diatomic Orbital |
| VBM | Valence-band Model (in Electronic Structure Calcns.) |
| FERST | Facility For Environmental Remote Sensing And Test |
| BCCD | Betaine Calcium Chloride Dihydrate |
| IBD | Inflammatory Bowel Diseases |
| CFP | Coefficient Of Fractional Parentage (method In Quantum Calcns.) |
| DRS | Dielectric Relaxation Spectroscopy |
| CFMM | Continuous Fast Multipole Method (algorithm For Coulomb Interactions Among Charge Distributions) |
| GERD | Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease |