| Acronym | Meaning |
| BER | Base Excision Repair |
| ILSS | Interlaminar Shear Strength |
| DDM | Decoupled Direct Method |
| POA | Peierls-Onsager Approxn. (in Electronic Structure Calcns.) |
| EMA | Effective Mass Approxn. (for Impurity Energy Levels) |
| CAI | Carcinogenic Activity Indicator |
| SGFM | Surface Green Function Matching (method In Calcn. Of Electronic And Phonon Properties Of Crystal Surfaces And Interfaces) |
| TROLL | Transmitter And Receiver Of Laser Light |
| VADW | Vibrationally-adiabatic Distorted-wave Method |
| UFL | Upper Flammable Limit |