| Acronym | Meaning |
| DWPO | Distorted Wave Polarized Orbital |
| FNSI | Finding Of No Significant Impact |
| ABS | Arc Bond Sputter |
| BMV | Berthier-Millie-Veillard Method (semiempirical MO-SCF) |
| IGT | Impaired Glucose Tolerance |
| TPOT | Two-parameter Omega Technique |
| RVCM | Renormalized Virtual-crystal Method (for Electronic Structure) |
| ISRM | International Society For Rock Mechanics |
| ASCW | Axial Spin Current Wave (type Of Hartree-Fock Wave Function) |
| UEBS | Unitarized Eikonal Born Series (in Electron-atom Scattering) |