| Acronym | Meaning |
| BOW | Bond-order Wave |
| ASTM | American Society For Testing And Materials |
| PNH | Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria |
| SCAP | Self-consistent Average Phonon (theory) |
| LEV | Low Emission Vehicle |
| JET | Joint European Torus |
| TLS | Thermal Lens Spectrometry |
| FEPCA | Federal Environmental Pesticide Control Act |
| LMTD | Logarithmic Mean Temperature Difference |
| FDTD | Finite-difference Time-domain |