| Acronym | Meaning |
| TROLL | Transmitter And Receiver Of Laser Light |
| CEPA-VAR | Coupled-electron-pair Approxn.-variational |
| PBM | Proton Beam Micromachining |
| WRDC | Wright Research And Development Center |
| NPOC | Nonpurgeable Organic Carbon |
| PTGF | Perturbative-type Green Function |
| MNOS | Metal-nitride Oxide Semiconductor |
| LASCR | Light-activated Silicon Controlled Rectifier |
| AWRG | Acid Waters Review Group (UK) |
| PAC | Perturbed Angular Correlation |