| Acronym | Meaning |
| CARER | Center For The Advancement Of Radiation Education And Research |
| OMCVD | Organometallic Chemical Vapor Deposition |
| UKIRT | United Kingdom Infrared Telescope |
| LPA | Linearized Propagator Approximation |
| ERS | Elastic Recoil Spectrometry |
| GTE | Global Tropospheric Experiment |
| DCBX | Distorted Coulomb-Born Exchange Approxn. |
| STMCTDHF | Spin-tensor Multiconfigurational Time-dependent Hartree-Fock |
| DQC | Decagonal Quasicrystal |
| LEES | Local Excess-electron State (a Mol.-crystal Wave Function) |