| Acronym | Meaning |
| CEDAR | Coupling, Energetics, And Dynamics Of Atm. Regions [project] |
| FD | Field Desorption |
| LIT | Linear Ion Trap |
| BPFT | Bohm-Pines-Fock-Tani (Hamiltonian In Calcns. On Plasmons) |
| ASMS | American Society For Mass Spectrometry |
| TRELIBS | Time Resolved Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy |
| PUMP | Pure (alpha-spin-state) Unrestricted Moeller-Plesset Nth-order (wave Function) |
| RFWM | Resonant Four-wave Mixing |
| HLR | Hydraulic Loading Rate |
| QCR | Quartz Crystal Resonator |