| Acronym | Meaning |
| HSDP | Hawaiian Scientific Drilling Project |
| RPA | Random Phase Approximation |
| RRIM | Reinforced Reaction-injection Molding |
| QMO | Quaternionic Molecular Orbital Method |
| PES | Photoelectron Spectroscopy |
| CC | Closed Cup (Flash Point Test Method) |
| SDQ-MBPT | Single (and) Double (and) Quadruple (substituted States) Many-body Perturbation Theory |
| LBF | Local Basis Function Method (for Solid State Band Structure) |
| PMF | Positive Matrix Factorization |
| ZDT | Zero Ductility Temperature |