| Acronym | Meaning |
| DMSP | Defense Meteorological Satellite Program |
| TPAD | Temperature Programmed Ammonia Desorption |
| PMDA | Pyromellitic Dianhydride |
| SCPW | Symmetrized Combination Of Plane Waves |
| SRIM | Stopping And Ranges Of Ions In Matter |
| CIVB | Configuration Interaction Valence Bond |
| EPROM | Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory |
| KGF | Keratinocyte Growth Factor |
| SOLO | Second-order Correlated Localized Orbital-local Origin (method) |
| BEFS | Berkeley Extreme And Far-UV Spectrometer |