| Acronym | Meaning |
| AEGIS | ATM European Group For Improvement Of Scenarios |
| MPB | Morphotropic Phase Boundary |
| NLC | Next Linear Collider |
| LOCV | Lowest-order Constrained Variation |
| TARIS | Thermal Atomization Resonance Ionization Spectrometry |
| UMO | Unmodified Molecular Orbital |
| OLF | Overland Flow |
| CAA | Clean Air Act Of 1970 |
| HEED | High Energy Electron Diffraction |
| CCWP | Close-coupling Wave-packet (for Mol. Scattering) |