| Acronym | Meaning |
| MICSPOMS | Metal Island Coated Swelling Polymer Over Mirror System |
| CNES | Centre National D'Etudes Spatiales (French Space Center) |
| RAIN | Reactions And Intermediates Network |
| ATMOS | Atmospheric Trace Molecule Spectroscopy |
| TICS | Time Reversal Invariant Closed Shell (type Of Hartree-Fock Wave Function) |
| MCMC | Markov Chain Monte Carlo |
| WIC | Washington Information Center |
| CRH | Corticotropin-releasing Hormone |
| UDDS | Urban Dynamometer Driving Schedule |
| GEM | Gas Electron Multiplier |