| Acronym | Meaning |
| TBC | Two-beam Coupling |
| ASTHO | Association Of State And Territorial Health Officers |
| MVA | Muellverbrennungsanlage (German) Waste Incineration Plant |
| NLDF | Nonlocal Density Functional |
| IRMPA | Infrared Multiphoton Absorption |
| DPA | Destructive Physical Analysis |
| CISA | Continuum Intermediate-state Approxn. (for Scattering) |
| MSX | Midcourse Space Experiment |
| EPA | Environment Potential Approach (in Electronic-structure Calcn.) |
| ICAPES | Inductively Coupled Argon Plasma Emission Spectrometry |