| Acronym | Meaning |
| PRIME | Purdue Rare Isotope Measurement Laboratory |
| INDO/S | Intermediate Neglect Of Differential Overlap Screened Approxn. |
| CDEI | Centromere DNA Element I |
| MPT | Matrix Perturbation Theory |
| PML | Polymer Multi Layer |
| QDM | Quadrature Discretization Method (in Electron Transport Properties Calcns.) |
| IDD | Iodine Deficiency Disorder |
| MIP | Major Intrinsic Protein |
| BFS | Beam Foil Spectroscopy |
| FEM | Field-Electron Microscopy |