| Acronym | Meaning |
| CMU | Condition Monitoring Unit |
| GOMR | Global Ozone Monitoring Radiometer |
| VOFF | Valence Orbital Force Field |
| FSR | Fractional Synthesis Rate |
| LPA | Linearized Propagator Approximation |
| NICI | Negative Ion Chemical Ionization (mass Spectrometry) |
| PKC | Protein Kinase C |
| PAS | Positron Annihilation Spectrometry |
| AS | Auger Spectroscopy |
| GAGE | Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment |