| Acronym | Meaning |
| APM | Acoustic Plate Mode |
| DMC | Dough Molding Compound |
| MCSCO | Multiconfiguration Self-consistent Orbital |
| CNP | C-type Natriuretic Peptide |
| XRES | X-ray Emission Spectroscopy |
| VPSA | Vainshtein-Presnyakov-Sobelman Approxn. (for Excitation In Atom-ion Collisions) |
| XD | Exothermic Dispersion |
| ASCII | American Standard Code For Information Interchange |
| LMXB | Low-mass X-ray Binaries |
| SCCF | Spin-correlated Crystal Field |