| Acronym | Meaning |
| BPFT | Bohm-Pines-Fock-Tani (Hamiltonian In Calcns. On Plasmons) |
| MEPSAG | Minimum Energy Path Semiclassical Adiabatic Ground-state (tunneling Approxn.) |
| IFM | Immunofluorescence Microscopy |
| SMIL | Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language |
| BK-DOK | Berufkrankeit Dokumentation (German Occupational Disease Documentation) |
| FWHM | Full Width At Half Maximum |
| NNLS | Non-negative Least-squares |
| DC | Direct Current |
| MPT | Matrix Perturbation Theory |
| PERI | Pharmaceutical Education And Research Institute |