| Acronym | Meaning |
| AQCDS | Air Quality Criteria Documents |
| ICCD | Intensified Charge-coupled Device |
| BID | Buoyancy Induced Dispersion |
| CATSAT | Cooperative Astrophysics And Technology Satellite |
| BRCA1 | Breast Cancer Gene 1 |
| HRCT | High-Resolution Computed Tomography |
| TESS | Transform Method For Extinction-scattering With Spatial Resoln. |
| CI | Chemical Ionization |
| CAWAI | Commission On Atomic Weights And Isotope Abundances |
| CBC | Circulating Bed Combustor (or Incinerator) |