| Acronym | Meaning |
| YIG | Yttrium Iron Garnet |
| OWLS | Optical Waveguide Lightmode Spectroscopy |
| PWEM | Partial-wave-expansion Method (in Electron Scattering Calcns.) |
| EA-EOMCC | Electron Attachment-equation Of Motion Coupled Cluster |
| RKKR-GF | Relativistic Koringa-Kohn-Rostoker Green Function |
| HETE | High Energy Transient Explorer |
| PVD | Physical Vapor Deposition |
| MSW-X(ALPHA) | Multiple Scattered Wave-SCF-x(alpha) |
| FGGE | First GARP Global Experiment |
| PMN | Polymorphonuclear Leukocyte |