| Acronym | Meaning |
| SPI | Society For The Plastics Industry |
| IA/PA | Intermediate Alky./partial Alky. |
| CVSEH | Correlated Valence Shell Effective Hamiltonian |
| DPV | Differential-pulse Voltammetry |
| WLF | Williams-Ferry-Landel [viscosity Math. Relation/parameter] |
| STMT | Superplastic Thermomech. Treatment |
| UKAWRG | United Kingdom Acid Waters Review Group |
| TCA | Traveling-cluster Approximation (a Generalization Of CPA For Electronic-structure Of Alloys) |
| ABR | Auditory Brainstem Response |
| OAM | Optical Absorption Microscope |