| Acronym | Meaning |
| SMM | Solar Maximum Mission |
| SWEPP | Stored Waste Examination Pilot Plant |
| WFM | Work Function Microscopy |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| GPUCHF | Geometric Perturbed Uncoupled Hartree-Fock Method |
| TBBM | Tight-binding Bond Model |
| ARF | Absolute Response Factor |
| HBT | Hanbury Brown Twiss (interferometry) |
| UKB | Unrestricted Kinetic Balance (in Calcns. Of Wave Functions And Energies) |
| HMPID | High Momentum Particle Identification Detector |