| Acronym | Meaning |
| SAED | Selected Area Electron Diffraction |
| HOCS | Harmonic-oscillator Coherent States |
| HIRBS | Heavy-ion Rutherford Backscattering Spectrometry |
| TNF | Tumor Necrosis Factor |
| BTB | Bromothymol Blue |
| ECS | Energy-corrected Sudden (scaling Theory In Mol. Collisions) |
| HBT | Hanbury Brown Twiss (interferometry) |
| APPM | Atomic Parts Per Million |
| OSBP | Oxysterol-binding Protein |
| VNS | Vicarious Nucleophilic Substitution |