| Acronym | Meaning |
| VALE | Vacuum Atomic Layer Epitaxy |
| BSDF | Bidirectional Scatter Distribution Function |
| MEIA | Microparticle Enzyme Immunoassay |
| GCM | Generator-coordinate Method |
| LCBO | Linear Combination Of Bonding Orbitals |
| DR-RWA | Dominant Resonance-rotating Wave Approximation |
| PCI | Positive-ion Chemical Ionization (mass Spectrometry) |
| GOPW | Gaussian Orthogonalized Plane Wave |
| HOEF | Harmonic Oscillator With External Field Model (in Collisions) |
| IWOP | Integration Within (an Ordered Product Of) Operators |