| Acronym | Meaning |
| OSTE | One-step Temper Embrittlement |
| FGM | Functionally Gradient Materials |
| DPN | Dip-pen Nanolithography |
| MORBID | Morse Oscillator-rigid Bender Internal Dynamics (hamiltonianin Rotational-vibrational Energy Levels Calcn.) |
| BWPT | Brillouin-Wigner Perturbation Theory |
| ISC | Intersystem Crossing |
| ARC | AIDS-related Complex |
| OMZ | Oxygen Min. Zone |
| ACEMS | Angular Conversion Electron Moessbauer Spectroscopy |
| ALOMAR | Arctic Lidar Observatory For Middle Atm. Research |