| Acronym | Meaning |
| TIWSLS | Time-independent Wave Packet Schroedinger (and) Lippmann-Schwinger (equation) |
| MLE | Maximum Likelihood Estimate |
| BNA | Bureau Of National Affairs |
| GIPOF | Graded-Index Plastic Optical Fiber |
| GCSOA | Gain-clamped Semiconductor Optical Amplifier |
| NRDAM | Natural Resource Damage Assessment Model |
| ETS | Electron Transport System |
| LUC | Large Unit Cell Semiempirical Approxn. (for Band Structure) |
| CETP | Channel Equiv. Of A Theor. Plate |
| EMA | Ethylene Methyl Acrylate |