| Acronym | Meaning |
| BFS | Beam Foil Spectroscopy |
| ARDE | Aspect Ratio Dependent Etching |
| ESCOMPTE | (Experience Sur Site Pour Contraindre Les Modeles De Pollution Atmospherique Et De Transport D'emissions) |
| VLTI | Very Large Telescope Interferometer |
| CRM | Certified Reference Material |
| RIFS | Reflectometric Interference Spectroscopy |
| CMX(2) | Second-order Connected Moments Expansion (method For Calcg. Correlation Energies Of Mols.) |
| BST | Barium Strontium Titanate |
| SCP-IOS | Semiclassical Perturbation-infinite Order Sudden |
| EMPA | Electron Microprobe Analysis |