| Acronym | Meaning |
| CDT | Critical Dissolution Time (synthetic Fiber And Polymer Property) |
| ELIF | Excimer Laser Induced Fragmentationpar |
| TRIR | Time-resolved IR |
| WATCH | Working Group On Assessment Of Toxic Chemicals |
| BKC | Born-von Karman Cell (model For Electronic-structure Calcn.) |
| ELEED | Elastic Low Energy Electron Diffraction |
| NRM | Natural Remanent Magnetization |
| GFF | Green Function Formalism |
| APTIC | Air Pollution Technical Information Center |
| PMTR | Photomodulated Thermoreflectance |