| Acronym | Meaning |
| VDI | Verein Deutscher Ingenieure (German Engineers Society) |
| SCPOM | Self-consistent Projecton Operator Method |
| LEACH | Leaching Evaluation Of Agricultural Chemicals |
| CSTIM | Channeling Scanning Transmission Ion Microscopy |
| UTP | Unitary Transformation (based) Perturbation (theory) |
| LEEM | Low-energy Electron Microscopy |
| NADW | North Atlantic Deep Water |
| MARS | Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines |
| CFSO | Crystal Field Surface Orbital |
| RODAC | Regional Ocean Dumping Advisory Committee |