| Acronym | Meaning |
| GMAW | Gas Metal Arc Welding |
| SCA-QD-MBPT | Self-consistently Adapted (core Reference State) Quasidegenerate Many-body Perturbation Theory |
| MS-RC(XI) | Multiple Scattering Relativistic Correlated (calcn. Method) |
| CAA | Computer Aided Analysis |
| LEU | Low Enrichment Uranium |
| EDF | Energy Density Functional (theory In Electronic-property Calcn.) |
| ESA-IRS | European Space Agency-Information Retrieval Service |
| IOS | Infinite Order Sudden Approximation |
| DPM | Disintegrations Per Minutepar |
| IRGA | Infrared Gas Analyzer |