| Acronym | Meaning |
| TDEMSE | Time-dependent Effective Mass Schroedinger Equation |
| CAWAI | Commission On Atomic Weights And Isotope Abundances |
| MIDAS | Microimaging Dust Analysis System |
| DOFS | Distributed Optical Fiber Sensing |
| IGA | Inert-gas Atomization |
| MVFF | Modified Valence Force Field |
| PSS | Primary Sewage Sludge |
| CBD | Chronic Beryllium Disease |
| EXOSAT | European X-ray Observatory Satellite |
| FOPPA | First-order Polarization Propagator Approach |