| Acronym | Meaning |
| ECQB | Electrochemical Quartz Crystal Balance |
| ISD | Inclined Substrate Deposition |
| CVMO | Cluster Valence Molecular Orbital |
| LMMS | Laser-microprobe Mass Spectrometry |
| PBMC | Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells |
| TBC | Thermal Barrier Coating |
| ICM | Institute For Crisis Management |
| TCA | Traveling-cluster Approximation (a Generalization Of CPA For Electronic-structure Of Alloys) |
| WPT | Wave Packet Perturbation Theory |
| OSC | Oxygen Storage Capacity |