| Acronym | Meaning |
| AMTEC | Alkali Metal Thermoelectric Converter |
| ATAS | Advance Technology Alert System |
| TIPS | Transferable Intermol. Potential Functions |
| OFW | Organic Free Water |
| STE | Self-trapped Exciton |
| KKRASA | Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker Atomic-sphere Approxn. (in Band Structure) |
| SCPF | Self-consistent Perturbation Field |
| EST | Expressed Sequence Tag |
| BILE | Beam Induced Light Emission |
| HAART | Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy |