| Acronym | Meaning |
| BLS | Brillouin Light Scattering |
| PUCHF | Perturbed Uncoupled Hartree-Fock |
| PDI | Polarization-division Interferometry |
| SCGF | Self-consistent Group Function |
| CBNM | Central Bureau For Nuclear Measurements |
| CMM | Compositionally Modulated Multilayers |
| PST | Porcine Somatotropin |
| ETF | Exponential-type Function (an Ao) |
| WPT | Wave Packet Perturbation Theory |
| BIRPS | British Institutes Reflection Profiling Syndicate |