| Acronym | Meaning |
| ASNT | American Society For Nondestructive Testing |
| OMTP | Overlap-multipole-expansion Procedure |
| HETA | Hazard Evaluation Technical Assistance Branch (NIOSH) |
| STARR | Staged Approach To Risk Reduction |
| KKR-GF | Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker-Green Function |
| BCT | Body Centered Tetragonal |
| ECSFM | Electrochemical Scanning Force Microscopy |
| CBOA | Crude Born-Oppenheimer Approximation |
| NICS | Nucleus-independent Chemical Shifts |
| MRFM | Magnetic Resonance Force Microscope |