| Acronym | Meaning |
| CHMM | Certified Hazardous Materials Manager |
| QFD | Quantum Fluid Dynamics |
| PDF | Powder Diffraction File |
| MLD | Magnetic Linear Dichroism |
| SOLO | Second-order Correlated Localized Orbital-local Origin (method) |
| NSR | Normalized Stoichiometric Ratio |
| AMPS | Airborne Multisensor Pod System |
| PLC | Polymer Liquid Crystal |
| SPRKKR | Spin-polarized Relativistic Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker |
| EBA | Exponentiated Born Approximation |