| Acronym | Meaning |
| AFCOP | Active Filler-controlled Pyrolysis |
| ARGOS | Advanced Remote Gaseous Oxides Sensor |
| CVI | Chemical Vapor Infiltration (impregnation) |
| RVB | Resonating Valence Bond (theory Of High-tc Superconductors) |
| MDSC | Modulated Differential Scanning Calorimetry |
| IPNS | Intense Pulsed Neutron Source |
| PT-MVD | Perturbation Theory (with) Mass-velocity And Darwin (operators) |
| CIRA | COSPAR International Reference Atmosphere |
| CD-SCSAG | Centrifugal Dominant-small Curvature Semiclassical Adiabatic Ground State (tunneling Approxn.) |
| FPP | Finite Perturbation And Polarization |