| Acronym | Meaning |
| VCB-CPA | Virtual Crystal Bandwidth-coherent Potential Approxn. (for Electronic-structure Calcns. On Alloys) |
| ICWM | Institute Of Chemical Waste Management |
| SME | Solar Mesosphere Explorer |
| PAMBE | Plasma-assisted Molecular Beam Epitaxy |
| INIS | International Nuclear Information System |
| EFPVN | Eastern Fine Particle And Visibility Network |
| QCD | Quantum Chromodynamics |
| MFA | Molecular-field Approximation |
| ERP | Emergency Response Planning |
| OFPT | Operator Form (of) Perturbation Theory |