| Acronym | Meaning |
| BMERC | BioMolecular Engineering Research Center |
| TMB | Table Mesa Basalt (USGS Rock Standard) |
| SFEM | Scanning Field Emission Microscopy |
| TPW | Transformed Plane Wave Method |
| DEXA | Dual Energy X-ray Absorptiometry |
| GMDH | Group Method Of Data Handling |
| APS | Atom Probe Spectroscopy |
| MEMTB | Many-electron Mol. Tight-binding (for Electronic Structures) |
| HFMD | Hellmann-Feynman Mol.-dynamics (method In Electronic Structure And Geometry Calcns.) |
| LSM | Land Surface Model |