| Acronym | Meaning |
| QD-MBPT | Quasi-degenerate Many-body Perturbation Theory |
| BART | Biological Activity Reaction Test |
| MLC | Myosin Light Chain |
| NSWMA | National Solid Wastes Management Association |
| ABS | Arc Bond Sputter |
| OBK | Oppenheimer-Brinkman-Kramers (approxn. In Atom-ion Electron-exchange Calcns.) |
| CNDO/SW | Complete Neglect Of Differential Overlap / Sichel-Whitehead |
| CS | Chemical Shift |
| SCPT | Self-consistent-perturbation Theory |
| PIPLC | Phosphatidylinositol Phospholipase C |