| Acronym | Meaning |
| SSTL | Singwi Sjolander Tosi Land (interatomic Potential) |
| CCOM | Coupled Channel Optical Method |
| SIBS | Spark Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy |
| TACI | Transmembrane Activator And CAML Interactor |
| ZINDO | Zerner's Intermediate Neglect Of Differential Overlap |
| NTSB | National Transportation Safety Board |
| SCA | Semiclassical Coulomb Approximation |
| NASC | North American Shale Composite |
| MOMBE | Metal Organic Molecular-beam Epitaxy |
| CSCF | Canonical Self-consistent Field |