| Acronym | Meaning |
| PICT | Pollution-induced Community Tolerance |
| ASTER | Acceptable Short-term Exposure Range |
| CNPPA | Commission On National Parks And Protected Areas |
| TFEL | Thin-film Electroluminescence |
| CLS | Cathodoluminescence Spectroscopy |
| SVM | Scanning Viscoelasticity Microscopy |
| VLSI | Very Large-scale Integration |
| ARDEC | Armament Research |
| CCM | Coupled-cluster Method (for Energy Level Calculations) |
| HDC | Hydrodynamic Chromatography |