| Acronym | Meaning |
| IEEE | Institute Of Electrical And Electronics Engineers |
| STXM | Scanning Transmission X-ray Microscope |
| CST | Central Standard Time |
| RC(XI) | (fully) Correlated Relativistic Local-density |
| ABLE | Atmospheric Boundary Layer Experiments |
| MSS | Monosulfide Solid Solution |
| PTGS | Post-transcriptional Gene Silencing |
| OW | Office Of Water |
| FOJT | First-order Jahn-Teller |
| IDLH | Immediately Dangerous To Life Or Health |