| Acronym | Meaning |
| LPS | Liquid-phase Sintering |
| BLR | Broad Line Region |
| HWDU | Hazardous Waste Disposal Unit |
| ABCM | Assembly (of) Boundary-controlled Monolayers (method For Electronic-structure Calcns.) |
| EELFS | Extended-energy-loss Fine-structure |
| ECTFP | Empty-core Thomas-Fermi Pseudopotential |
| LCMVAO | Linear Combination Of Modified Valence Atomic Orbital |
| SESCA | Scanning Electron Spectroscopy For Chemical Applications |
| 2MASS | Two Micron All-Sky Survey |
| BMAW | Bare Metal Arc Welding |