| Acronym | Meaning |
| ICCA | International Council Of Chemical Associations |
| PLD | Pulsed Laser Deposition |
| NICMOS | Near-IR Camera And Multiobject Spectrometer |
| APDI | Anisotropic Point-dipole Interaction (model For Calcg. Long-range Intermol. Dispersion Forces) |
| DZPP | Double-zeta (doubly) Polarized (basis Set) |
| FF-MBPT | Finite-field Many-body Perturbation Theory |
| SPELL | Spectral Eulerian Lagrangian Model |
| ACBM | Advanced Cement-Based Materials |
| SPOT | Satellite Pour L'Observation De La Terre |
| AFPAL | Air Force Phillips Astronautics Laboratory (USA) |