| Acronym | Meaning |
| DPT | Direct Perturbation Theory |
| IMAPS | Interstellar Medium Absorption Profile Spectrograph |
| DTSC | Differential Temperature Scanning Calorimeter |
| LSR | Lanthanide Shift Reagent |
| RMTA | Rigid Muffin-tin Approxn. |
| PAIRS | Program For The Analysis Of Infrared Spectra |
| BRFI | Brewing Research Foundation International |
| AEOS | Advanced Electro-Optical System |
| NITM | Normalized Irreducible Tensorial Matrix |
| RTP | Research Triangle Park |