| Acronym | Meaning |
| GIPOF | Graded-Index Plastic Optical Fiber |
| NLLSQ | Nonlinear Least Squares |
| LEELS | Low Energy Electron Loss Spectroscopy |
| RE | Recoupled States (in Orbiting Resonances Calcns. In Atom-mol. Inelastic Scattering) |
| MOG | Myelin Oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein |
| CEY | Conversion Electron Yield |
| OEH | One-electron Hamiltonian (quantum Method) |
| DFTS | Dispersive Fourier Transform Spectrometry |
| GA | Glauber Approximation (in Electron-atom Scattering) |
| USCAR | United States Council For Automotive Research |