| Acronym | Meaning |
| ILSS | Interlaminar Shear Strength |
| WBGT | Wet Bulb Global Temperature |
| GRINSCH | Graded-index Separate Confinement Heterostructure |
| ERDA | US Energy Research And Development Administration |
| BOP | Basic-O Process |
| ECP | Exponential Corrugated Potential |
| SPT | Selective Polarization-transfer |
| TBM | Thyssen Blowing Metallurgy |
| CHF | Coupled Hartree-Fock |
| MR-SAC | Multireference Symmetry-adapted-cluster (quantum Theory Or Wave Function For Mol. Calcns.) |