| Acronym | Meaning |
| ADE | (thermal) Adsorption-desorption Equilibrium |
| OSL | Optically Stimulated Luminescence |
| WCAT | Water-cooled Atom Trap |
| CIPSO | Configuration Interaction (with) Perturbation (including) Spin-orbit Coupling |
| PZN | Lead Zinc Niobate |
| ATLAS | Atmospheric Laboratory For Applications And Science |
| TDS | Thermal Desorption Spectrometry |
| GCHF | Generator Coordinate Hartree-Fock |
| IPC | International Patent Classification |
| APSA | Advanced Photovoltaic Solar Array |