| Acronym | Meaning |
| IBAD | Ion-Beam-Assisted Deposition |
| LAAFS | Laser Ablation Atomic Fluorescence Spectroscopy |
| GFF | Glass Fiber Filter |
| PASA | PCR Amplification Of Specific Alleles |
| BLB | Brillouin-Levy-Berthier (theorem In MO Theory) |
| LBE | Lance Bubbling Equil. |
| BSO | Buthionine Sulfoximine |
| AFA | Abstract Factor Anal. (statistics) |
| FIM-APS | Field Ion Microscopy-atom Probe Spectroscopy |
| PWG SCF | Plane-wave Gaussian Self-consistent Field Method |