| Acronym | Meaning |
| DNS | Determination Of Nonsignificance |
| QPMDA | Quasiparticle Mean Density Approxn. (assocd. With Local-d. Theory) |
| APCVD | Atm.-pressure Chem. Vapor Deposition |
| POX | Particulate Organic Halogen(s) |
| VFF | Valence Force Field (in Electronic-structure Calcns.) |
| ATDHF | Adiabatic Time-dependent Hartree-Fock |
| ELAS | Electro Acoustic Spectrometry |
| DSPIL | Direct Solar Pumped Iodine Laser |
| STP | Similarity Transformation (based) Perturbation (theory) |
| EDB | Ethylene Dibromide |