| Acronym | Meaning |
| IAD | Ion Assisted Deposition |
| CRD | Cavity Ring Down |
| TRIGA | Training, Research, Isotopes, General Atomic (nuclear Fuel) |
| CHFPT | Coupled Hartree-Fock Perturbation Theory |
| BPFT | Bohm-Pines-Fock-Tani (Hamiltonian In Calcns. On Plasmons) |
| 3DAP | Three Dimensional Atom Probe |
| MBPT | Many-body Perturbation Theory |
| MCLR | Multiconfigurational Linear Response (an MC-SCF Method) |
| MPI | Multivariable Proportional-integral [control(ler)] |
| JESSI | Joint European Submicron Silicon Initiative |