| Acronym | Meaning |
| PIF | Photochemically-induced Fluorescence |
| CD | Coulomb Dipole (in Electron-atom Impact Ionization Calcns.) |
| OCTS | Ocean Color And Temperature Sensor |
| AES | American Electroplating Society |
| LCGTO-LSD-VW | Linear Combination Of Gaussian Type Orbitals-local Spin Density-Vosko-Wilk-Nusair |
| UW-PG | Uniformly Weighted Planar Grid (method In Calcns. Of Electron-momentum Distributions) |
| LLNL | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| CPA | Chirped Pulse Amplification |
| WHOI | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute |
| SCLM | Scanning Confocal Laser Microscopy |