| Acronym | Meaning |
| MASERATI | Middle Atmosphere Spectrometric Experiment On Rockets For Analysis Of Trace Gas Influences |
| AE | Acoustic Emission |
| SSUSI | Special Sensor UV Spectrographic Imager |
| MMDR | Microwave-microwave Double Resonance |
| NIRIM | National Institute For Research In Inorganic Materials |
| DOT | Department Of Transportation |
| BODC | Born-Oppenheimer Diagonal Correction (in Mol. Calcns.) |
| FPGA | Field-programmable Gate Array |
| NDIR | Nondispersive Infrared Analysis |
| ERP | Emergency Response Planning |