| Acronym | Meaning |
| RWKB | Relativistic Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin |
| APSGF | Antisymmetrical Product Of Strongly Orthogonal Group Functions (a Wave Function) |
| ASEC | Applied Solar Energy Corporation |
| ADPKD | Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease |
| PPGA | Plastic Pin Grid Array [electronic Package] |
| OMVPE | Organometallic Vapor-phase Epitaxy |
| GMAW | Gas Metal Arc Welding |
| UEATC | European Union For Technical Agreements In Construction (French; L'Union Europeenne Pour L'Agrement Technique Dans La Construc |
| AHP | Average Hole-potential (method For Electronic-structure Calcns. On Mols.) |
| ARXPS | Angular Resolved X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy |