| Acronym | Meaning |
| VCA | Virtual Crystal Approximation |
| AAIW | Antarctic Intermediate Water |
| IDA | Iron Deficiency Anemia |
| GCLDA | Gradient-corrected Local Density Approximation |
| GPRS | General Packet Radio Service |
| KDV | Korteweg-de Vries (equation For Solitons) |
| EELFS | Extended-energy-loss Fine-structure |
| UCC(N) | Unitary Coupled-cluster [truncated To Nth Order] |
| QSPR | Quantitative Structure Property Relationship |
| QIP | Quantum Information Processing |