| Acronym | Meaning |
| HCOT | Helically Coiled Open Tube |
| PLFA | Phospholipid Fatty Acid |
| CDIF | Component Development And Integration Facility (MHD Channel Generator Plant |
| SFRC | Spruce-Fir Research Cooperative |
| SCC | Semiclassical Coupled-channel |
| DIMPP | Differential Integrated Multiple Pulse Polarography |
| MISFET | Metal-insulator-semiconductor Field Effect Transistor |
| TSA | Toluenesulfonic Acid |
| PMP2 | (spin) Projected Moeller-Plesset Second-order (perturbation Theory) |
| GCSOA | Gain-clamped Semiconductor Optical Amplifier |