| Acronym | Meaning |
| PWPP | Plane-wave Pseudopotential |
| CMV | Cucumber Mosaic Virus |
| RBS | Rutherford Backscattering Spectrometry |
| WORM | Write Once Read Many |
| EUVL | Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography |
| SCE | Short Channel Effect |
| LSM | Layered Synthetic Microstructure |
| MCM | Multiconfigurational (variation Of) Moments (for Mo Correlation Diagrams Calcn.) |
| ESCR | Environmental Stress Cracking Resistance |
| FECO | Fringes Of Equal Chromatic Order |