| Acronym | Meaning |
| BIB | Blocked Impurity Band |
| CIBE | Continuous Interfacial Bilayer Electrode |
| PDI | Point Dipole Interaction (model For Mol.-polarizability Calcns.) |
| STNAA | Short Time Neutron Activation Analysis |
| ARDS | Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome |
| TDSE | Time-dependent Schroedinger Equation |
| DWPI | Derwent World Patents Index |
| OCTA | Oxidizing Capacity Of The Tropospheric Atmosphere |
| PCAD | Power Conditioning And Distribution (in Spacecraft) |
| VADW | Vibrationally-adiabatic Distorted-wave Method |