| Acronym | Meaning |
| HSAB | Hard And Soft Acids And Bases |
| BSS | Backscattering Spectroscopy |
| APOE | Apolipoprotein E |
| GAM | Generalized Additive Model |
| RSMP | Rayleigh-Schroedinger-Moeller-Plesset Perturbation |
| GCHAZ | Grain-coarsened Heat-affected Zone |
| SCC | Superposition Of Correlated Configurations (variational Method) |
| VLTI | Very Large Telescope Interferometer |
| PLY | Photoluminescence Yield |
| CARS | Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy |