| Acronym | Meaning |
| HMPGI | Hybrid Multiple-prism Grazing-incidence |
| CDWA | Continuum Distorted-wave Approxn. (for Scattering Calcns.) |
| PIMC | Path-integral Monte-Carlo |
| GMS | Glycerol Monostearate |
| GI | Many Electron Wave Functions That Are Simultaneously Eigen-functions Of The Total Spin Projection Operators And Satisfy The Pa |
| VES | Vertical Elec. Sounding |
| DAF | Decay-accelerating Factor |
| HEIWIP | Heterojunction Interfacial Workfunction Internal Photoemission |
| GRF | Growth Hormone Releasing Factor |
| VPT | Variational Perturbation Theory |