| Acronym | Meaning |
| DBR | Distributed Bragg Reflector |
| SC-HL | Self-consistent Heitler-London |
| NICMOS | Near-IR Camera And Multiobject Spectrometer |
| MAB | Monoclonal Antibodies |
| MBIE | Mixed-bed Ion Exchange |
| MBRS | Molecular Beam Relaxation Spectrometry |
| APT | Analytic Perturbation Theory |
| CPE | Coulomb Wave-plane Wave (description With) Effective Screening |
| EBIT | Electron Beam Ion Trap |
| FATE | Functional Attributes In Terrestrial Ecosystems |