| Acronym | Meaning |
| NLO | Nonlinear Optical |
| IGGE | Institute Of Geophysical And Geochemical Exploration |
| ICNIRS | International Council For Near Infrared Spectroscopy |
| CEPA-2V | Coupled-electron-pair Approxn. (with) Variational (method) |
| VFT | Voguel-Fulcher-Tamman [equation] |
| MIBERS | Multi-ion-beam Reactive Sputtering |
| DAB | Dipole Adapted Basis (wave Function) |
| NPAR | Nonbinding Preliminary Allocation Of Responsibility |
| EDXD | Energy Dispersive X-ray Diffraction |
| RHFT | Relativistic Hartree-Fock Two-channel (for Scattering) |