| Acronym | Meaning |
| AVIRIS | Airborne Visible-infrared Imaging Spectrometer |
| VBSCF | Valence Bond Self-consistent Field |
| SERODS | Surface-Enhanced Raman Optical Data Storage |
| LACBED | Large-angle Convergent-beam Electron Diffraction |
| NOE | Nuclear Overhauser Enhancement |
| HRSEM | High Resolution Scanning Electron Microscopy |
| NTR | Nontranslated Region |
| DARMA | Deterministic Autoregressive Moving Average |
| PCMT | Protein Carboxyl Methyltransferase |
| ODLRO | Off-diagonal Long-range Order |