| Acronym | Meaning |
| CMBH | Capped Mesa Buried Heterostructure |
| FOG | Fats, Oil, And Grease |
| LDC | Liq. Dynamic Compaction |
| SCCE | Synchronized Cyclic Capillary Electrophoresis |
| LMTD | Logarithmic Mean Temperature Difference |
| NEVE | Nonempirical Valence Electron Method |
| RFA | Retarding Field Analyzer |
| HKS | Hohenberg-Kohn-Sham (quantum Theory) |
| DDRPA | Double Direct Random Phase Approximation |
| PPGA | Plastic Pin Grid Array [electronic Package] |