| Acronym | Meaning |
| XPM | Cross-phase Modulation |
| PADMR | Photoinduced Absorption Detected Magnetic Resonance |
| LSCM | Laser Scanning Confocal Microscopy |
| CIS | Chemical Information System |
| LEV | Low Emission Vehicle |
| EERF | Eastern Environmental Radiation Facility |
| UCC(N) | Unitary Coupled-cluster [truncated To Nth Order] |
| MMC | Metal-Matrix Composite |
| BS | Breathing Sphere (approxn. In Mol.-scattering Calcns.) |
| SCEPM | Self-consistent Empirical Pseudopotential Method |