| Acronym | Meaning |
| THFA | Target Hartree-Fock Approximation |
| SFC | Supercritical Fluid Chromatography |
| VPSA | Vainshtein-Presnyakov-Sobelman Approxn. (for Excitation In Atom-ion Collisions) |
| MIRS | Multiple Internal Reflection Spectroscopy |
| RIE | Reactive Ion Etching |
| HEPA | High-efficiency Particulate Air Filter |
| DOS | Density Of States (in Band Structures) |
| KOPRA | Karlsruhe Optimized And Precise Radiative Transfer Algorithm |
| LCCSD | Linearized Coupled-cluster (theory With) Single (and) Double (excitations) (in Mol. Potential Calcns.) |
| NDUV | Non-dispersive Ultraviolet Analyzer |