| Acronym | Meaning |
| IE | Ionization Energy |
| HT | Herzberg-Teller (wave Functions) |
| LEPC | Local Emergency Planning Committee |
| GBS | Grain Boundary Sliding |
| FMM | Force Modulation Microscopy |
| HVOF | High-Velocity Oxygen Fuel |
| CBOX | Coulomb-Born With No Exchange |
| CGCP | Canadian Global Change Program |
| DFW | Diffusion Welding |
| ECBM | Extended Classical Over-barrier Model (in Calcns. On Inelastic Ion-atom Colisions) |