| Acronym | Meaning |
| MBH | Mediobasal Hypothalamus |
| ALAP | As Low As Practical |
| AFMR | Antiferromagnetic Resonance |
| XPED | X-ray Photoelectron Diffractometry |
| AQCC | Averaged Quadratic Coupled-cluster |
| SIBFA | Sum (of) Interactions Between Fragments (computed) Ab Initio |
| SAMBA | Satellite For Measurement Of Background Anisotropies |
| CVO | Canonical Virtual Orbital |
| CCAM | Charge-conserving Approxn. Method (for Quantum Calcns.) |
| ITFW | Improved Thomas-Fermi-Weizaecker (model) |