| Acronym | Meaning |
| BPFT | Bohm-Pines-Fock-Tani (Hamiltonian In Calcns. On Plasmons) |
| DMA | Dynamic Mechanical Analysis (for Elastomers) |
| LSS | Laser Synchrotron Source |
| CSIRO | Commonwealth Scientific And Industrial Research Organization |
| MAFID | Moment Analysis Of Fluorescence-intensity Distribution |
| ANZECC | Australian And New Zealand Environment And Conservation Council |
| ALA | American Library Association |
| GLIS | Global Land Information System |
| ALICE | Adiabatic Low-energy Injection And Confinement Experiment |
| RTCDW | Relativistic Target Continuum Distorted Wave (approxn. For Electron Capture In Ion-atom Collisions) |