| Acronym | Meaning |
| VPM | Variable Phase Method (for Electron-atom Scattering Calcns.) |
| BEST | Basic Extractive Sludge Treatment |
| PASPE | Photochemically Accumulated Stimulated Photon Echo |
| RAA | Rigid-atom Approxn. (in Electronic Structure Calcns.) |
| EBL | Electron-beam Lithography |
| CDEI | Centromere DNA Element I |
| MWCO | Molecular Weight Cut-off (in Membrane |
| HF MO LCAO | Hartree-Fock MO LCAO |
| CRGT | Chemically Recuperated Gas Turbine |
| DRIFT | Diffuse Reflectance IR Fourier Transform |