| Acronym | Meaning |
| IA/PA | Intermediate Alky./partial Alky. |
| RFQ | Radio-frequency Quadrupole |
| LEPECVD | Low Energy Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition |
| CFC | Corrosion-fatigue Cracking |
| LPA | Linearized Propagator Approximation |
| THFFF | Thermal Field-flow Fractionation |
| LUC | Large Unit Cell Semiempirical Approxn. (for Band Structure) |
| MCEB-NEV | Multiconfigurational Energy Bound-natural Eigenvalue Method |
| EIL | Electron Injection Layer |
| EBA | Eikonal Born Approxn. |