| Acronym | Meaning |
| AFCRL | Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories |
| CHAART | Center For Health Applications Of Aerospace-Related Technologies |
| OEIC | Optoelectronic Integrated Circuit |
| DPN | Dip-pen Nanolithography |
| BIOS | British Intelligence Objectives Sub-committee |
| AFC | Antibody Forming Cell |
| GPMS | Galileo Probe Mass Spectrometer |
| MIAR | Mass Isotopomer Abundance Ratio |
| CAK | Cdk-activating Kinase |
| DVMO | Directed-valence Molecular Orbital |