In dictionaries:
abatement ab initio
(law) A common law legal doctrine stating that the death of a defendant who is appealing a criminal conviction vacates the conviction.
Ab Initio Software
an American software corporation based in Lexington, Massachusetts.
Ab initio quantum chemistry methods
computational chemistry methods based on quantum chemistry.
Vienna Ab initio Simulation Package
The Vienna Ab initio Simulation Package, better known as VASP, is a package written primarily in Fortran for performing ab initio quantum mechanical calculations using either Vanderbilt pseudopotentials, or the projector augmented wave method, and a plane wave basis set.
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