| Acronym | Meaning |
| MTO | Muffin-tin Orbital |
| SPAES | Spin Polarized Auger Electron Spectroscopy |
| IPEM | Ion-photon Emission Microscopy |
| ICCD | Intensified Charge-coupled Device |
| HID | High Intensity Discharge |
| NDWAC | National Drinking Water Advisory Council |
| CAST | CERN Axion Solar Telescope |
| DIRLD | Dynamic Infrared Linear Dichroism |
| MESA | Mesoscale Self-assembly |
| PVB-CSF | Projected Valence Bond-configuration State Function |