| Acronym | Meaning |
| ICDD | International Center For Diffraction Data |
| UTAO | Undistorted Traveling Atomic Orbital |
| HART | Highway Addressable Remote Transducer [Rosemount |
| MEG4 | Multiexponentially Generated 4 (wave Functions) |
| HPAM | Hydrolyzed Polyacrylamide |
| HFO | Hartree-Fock Orbital |
| COD | Crack Opening Displacement |
| ARXPD | Angle Resolved X-ray Photoelectron Diffraction |
| DSA | Dynamic Strain Aging |
| MLT | Magnetic Local Time |