| Acronym | Meaning |
| MSS | Mobile Servicing Station [space Station] |
| COCI | Committee On Chemistry And Industry (IUPAC) |
| PLC | Polymer Liquid Crystal |
| EIA | Eikonal Impulse Approxn. (in Ion-atom Inelatic Collisions) |
| ALI | Acute Lung Injury |
| IMS | Ion Mobility Spectrometry |
| CASE | Computer Aided Software Engineering |
| ESE | Electron Spin Echo |
| SHRIMP | Sensitive High Mass Resolution Ion Microprobe |
| PCS | Photon Correlation Spectroscopy |