| Acronym | Meaning |
| ISS | Ion Scattering Spectroscopy |
| MOUSE | Method Of Underground Solute Evaluation |
| RVB | Resonating Valence Bond (theory Of High-tc Superconductors) |
| RFE | Relative Fit Error |
| TNRCC | Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission |
| NATA | National Air Toxics Assessment |
| PIM | Powder Injection Molding |
| OWVP | Outgoing Wave Variational Principle |
| HIRDLS | High-Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder |
| LEAP | Local-electrode Atom Probe |