| Acronym | Meaning |
| MDS | Metastable Deexcitation Spectroscopy |
| BK-DOK | Berufkrankeit Dokumentation (German Occupational Disease Documentation) |
| ASA | At. Sphere Approxn. |
| STCA | Simplified Traveling-cluster Approxn. (for Electronic Structure) |
| MCQDA | Multichannel Quantum Defect Analysis |
| EQCM | Electrochemical Quartz Crystal Microbalance |
| HAADF | High-angle Annular Dark-field |
| ATQW | Asymmetric Triple Quantum Well Structure |
| DNA | Deoxyribonucleic Acid |
| CCAM | Charge-conserving Approxn. Method (for Quantum Calcns.) |