| Acronym | Meaning |
| OOS | Optical-oscillator Strength |
| MOCVD | Metal Org. Chem. Vapor Deposition |
| EBD | Electron Beam Doping |
| CSA | Centrifugal Sudden Approxn. (in Scattering Calcns.) |
| USCE | US Army Corps Of Engineers |
| SNG | Synthetic Natural Gas |
| CALS | Cloud And Aerosol Lidar System |
| SAGE | Soviet-American Gallium Experiment |
| TASO | Terminal Atom Symmetry Orbital |
| TDA | Tamm-Dancoff Approximation |