| Acronym | Meaning |
| MSZ | Magnesia-stabilized Zirconia |
| THEL | Tactical High Energy Laser |
| LIBS | Laser-induced Breakdown Spectroscopy |
| DHCP | Double Hexagonal Close Packedpar |
| LOPT | Lowest-order Perturbation Theory |
| WLA | Waste Load Allocation |
| ARM | Advanced Reservoir Management (petroleum) |
| MCTDHF | Multiconfiguration Time-dependent Hartree-Fock |
| MFP | Magnetic Field Perturbative (method) |
| FKN | Field-Koros-Noyes (mechanism) |