| Acronym | Meaning |
| DET | Direct Nonradiative Electronic Energy Transfer |
| DHOT | Double-heterojunction Optical Thyristor |
| DOVE | Doubly Vibrationally Enhanced |
| DPM | Disintegrations Per Minutepar |
| ARF | Acute Renal Failure |
| AGU | American Geophysical Union |
| AET | Acoustic Emission Technique |
| SERS | Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy |
| CBX | Coulomb-Born Approxn. With Exchange |
| ESC | Environmental Stress Cracking |