| Acronym | Meaning |
| AMI | Active Microwave Instrument |
| IMS | Intelligent Manufacturing Systems |
| EVD | Electrochem. Vapor Deposition |
| BOFSUW | Biodegradable Organic Fraction Of Solid Urban Waste |
| ESI | Electrospray Ionization |
| DTRA | Defense Threat Reduction Agency |
| IPVD | Ionized Physical Vapor Deposition |
| RTFDW | Relativistic Thomas-Fermi-Dirac-Weizsaecker (electron-d. Theory) |
| CI-HY | Configuration Interaction-Hylleraas |
| NSE | Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation |