| Acronym | Meaning |
| NITS | National Institute Of Technology And Standards |
| ICTS | Isothermal Capacitance Transient Spectroscopy |
| MIBERS | Multi-ion-beam Reactive Sputtering |
| AAT | Atomic Axial Tensor (in Mol. Optical Properties Calcns.) |
| DZRS | Double Zeta Roos-Siegbahn (wave Functions) |
| RRM | Rayleigh-Ritz Method (for Quantum Calculations) |
| FEL | Fixed Emission Limit |
| RACT | Reasonably Available Control Technology |
| LOCOS | Local Oxidation Of Silicon |
| FLN | Fluorescence Line Narrowing |