| Acronym | Meaning |
| JCPDS | Joint Committee On Powder Diffraction Standards |
| ALICE | Adiabatic Low-energy Injection And Confinement Experiment |
| LSNMS | Laser Secondary Neutral Mass Spectroscopy |
| CAS-CI | Complete Active Space-configuration Interaction |
| AIM | Atoms In Molecules Method |
| DBR | Distributed Bragg Reflector |
| ARIPO | African Regional Intellectual Property Organization |
| BALR | Broad Absorption Line Region |
| ANP | Atrial Natriuretic Peptide |
| SIMS | Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry |