| Acronym | Meaning |
| GRASP | Gradient Accelerated Spectroscopy |
| AMCOR | Atlantic Margin Coring Project |
| WAS | Whole Air Sampler |
| IPHAS | The INT/WFC Photometric H-alpha Survey Of The Northern Galactic Plane |
| GEH | Generalized Effective Hamiltonian |
| ADAPTS | Air Deliverable Antipollution Transfer System |
| OSW | Office Of Solid Waste (US EPA) |
| CI | Compression-ignition (engine) |
| MCXD | Magnetic Circular X-ray Dichroism |
| WDM | Wavelength Division Multiplexing |