| Acronym | Meaning |
| BEWS | Biological Early Warning Systems |
| PAC | Polyaluminum Chloride |
| BKC | Born-von Karman Cell (model For Electronic-structure Calcn.) |
| MOSFET | Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor |
| CCTM | Coupled-channel Transition Matrix (in Atom-surface Scattering) |
| QR-MWH | Quasi-relativistic Mulliken-Wolfsberg-Helmholz Method |
| CLC | Capacity Limiting Constituents |
| ATE | Automatic Test Equipment |
| MCRT | Mean Cell Residence Time |
| CIPSI | Configuration Interaction Perturbing A Multiconfigurational Zeroth-order Wave Function Selected Iteratively |