| Acronym | Meaning |
| HYPS | Hybrid Plasma Spraying |
| FLNS | Fluorescence Line-narrowing Spectroscopy |
| LIFT | Laser Induced Forward Transfer |
| NDPD | National Data Processing Division |
| HI | Hinkley Index |
| ELMF | European Large Magnetic Field Facility |
| CVT | Canonical Variational Transition-state (theory) |
| TNAA | Thermal Neutron Activation Analysis |
| ORSTB | Overlap-reduced Semiempirical Tight-binding |
| ISM | Inverse Scattering Method |