| Acronym | Meaning |
| TDSE | Time-dependent Schroedinger Equation |
| MIBERS | Multi-ion-beam Reactive Sputtering |
| SNUR | Significant New Use Rule |
| PSD | Photon Stimulated Desorption |
| HRMAS | High-resolution Magic-angle Spinning |
| PFC | Polarized Frozen Core Approximation |
| FSMRCC | Fock Space Multireference Coupled Cluster |
| PHOTOSELEX | Photochemical Systematic Evolution Of Ligands By Exponential Enrichment |
| CDNA | Complementary DNA |
| (PI)SDCI | (pi)-electron Singly And Doubly Excited CI |