| Acronym | Meaning |
| CARL | Collective Atomic Recoil Laser |
| CODIS | Combined DNA Index System |
| TES | Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer |
| AFOSR | Air Force Office Of Scientific Research (USA) |
| BN | Boron Nitride |
| UEBS | Unitarized Eikonal Born Series (in Electron-atom Scattering) |
| GGG | Gallium Gadolinium Garnet |
| LITA | Laser-induced Thermal Acoustics |
| OBE | Optical Bloch Equation |
| GVB-CI | Generalized Valence Bond-configuration Interaction (wave Function) |