| Acronym | Meaning |
| CAP | Continuous Absorption Process |
| SMM | Solar Maximum Mission |
| PHANTOMM | Photo-activated Nonintrusive Tracking Of Molecular Motion |
| SPP | Surface Plasmon Polariton |
| SDQ-MBPT | Single-double-quadruple Excitation Many-body Perturbation Theory |
| IEV | Independent Event (model In Ion-atom Collisions) |
| SPPS | Solid Phase Peptide Synthesis |
| ASLE | American Society Of Lubrication Engineers (USA |
| BIXS | Beta-ray Induced X-ray Spectrometry |
| HENA | High-energy Neutral Atom |