| Acronym | Meaning |
| GADD | Growth Arrest And DNA Damage |
| RLF | Radially Localized (wave) Function |
| DFA | Discontinuous Flow Analysis |
| PCF | Pair Correlation Function |
| XRS | X-Ray Spectroscopy |
| ALCA | American Leather Chemists' Association |
| NICNAS | National Industrial Chemicals Notification And Assessment Scheme (Australia) |
| ADGIXA | Angular-dependent Glancing-incidence X-ray Analysis |
| PSNO | Pseudonatural Orbital |
| EINP | Energy-independent Nonlocal Pseudopotential |