| Acronym | Meaning |
| FAS | Flame Absorption Spectroscopy |
| OSW | US Office Of Saline Water |
| GRIN | Graded Index |
| CCWP | Close-coupling Wave-packet (for Mol. Scattering) |
| PXR | Parametric X-ray |
| PKC | Protein Kinase C |
| ICDD | International Center For Diffraction Data |
| SDTQ-MBPT | Single-double-triple-quadruple Excitation (contribution) MBPT |
| ICR | Intelligent Optical Character Recognition |
| SBIG | Subject-based Information Gateway |