| Acronym | Meaning |
| CNDO/FK | Complete Neglect Of Differential Overlap/ Fischer-Kollmar |
| SFCCCC | Space-fixed Complex-coordinate Coupled-channel Method |
| USCE | US Army Corps Of Engineers |
| NEOPS | North East Oxidant And Particle Study |
| GE-EPMA | Grazing-exit Electron Probe Microanalysis |
| MMC | Metal-Matrix Composite |
| AOU | Apparent Oxygen Utilization |
| AESOP | Ab-initio Effective Spin-orbit Operator |
| UEBS | Unitarized Eikonal Born Series (in Electron-atom Scattering) |
| EBIT | Electron Beam Ion Trap |