| Acronym | Meaning |
| MBMS | Molecular Beam Mass Spectrometry |
| IAQINFO | Indoor Air Quality Information Clearinghouse |
| XRPD | X-ray Powder Diffraction |
| SAMS | Stratospheric And Mesospheric Sounder |
| TFW | Thomas-Fermi-Weizsaecker (electron-d. Theory) |
| BOSS | Bistable Optically Controlled Semiconductor Switch |
| FTICRMS | Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometry |
| SCAP | Self-consistent Average Phonon (theory) |
| CV-MCHF | Core-valence Correlation-multiconfiguration Hartree-Fock |
| ACD | Annealed Cold Drawn |