| Acronym | Meaning |
| IFT | Interfacial Tension |
| NASO | Nasmyth Adaptive Optics System |
| AWRA | American Water Resources Association |
| AP-PCR | Arbitrarily Primed Polymerase Chain Reaction |
| EFS | Event-free Survival |
| GW | One-particle Green Function(g)-screened Coulomb Interaction(w) |
| ARDE | Aspect Ratio Dependent Etching |
| SOS | Surfaces Of Section Method (semiclassical Calcn. Of Eigenvalues) |
| QLCPMET | Quasilinearized Coupled-pair-many-electron Theory |
| LAMMA | Laser Microprobe Mass Analysis |