| Acronym | Meaning |
| JIS | Japan Industrial Standard |
| MCDW | Matrix Continuum Distorted Wave |
| USAN | US Adopted Names (for Drugs) |
| IMAPS | International Microelectronics And Packaging Society |
| IWOP | Integration Within (an Ordered Product Of) Operators |
| RDF | Radial Distribution Function |
| GIAO | Gage-independent Atomic Orbital |
| DDM | Decoupled Direct Method |
| UHF | Ultra-high Frequency |
| VSFG | Vibrational Sum-frequency Generation |