| Acronym | Meaning |
| PMN | Premanufacture Notice |
| TRIPS | Trade-Related Aspects Of Intellectual Property Rights |
| BRCA2 | Breast Cancer Gene 2 |
| ECS | Energy-corrected Sudden (scaling Theory In Mol. Collisions) |
| EQO | Environmental Quality Objective |
| SPALEED | Spot Profile Analysis Low Energy Electron Diffraction |
| LADH | Liver Alcohol Dehydrogenase |
| EPM | Empirical Pseudopotential Method |
| SAPW | Symmetrized Augmented Plane Wave |
| IBD | Ion Beam Deposition |