| Acronym | Meaning |
| TARP | Technical Assistance Response Program |
| SSME | Space Shuttle Main Engine |
| FBG | Fiber Bragg Grating |
| TESS | Transform Method For Extinction-scattering With Spatial Resoln. |
| PNRA | Photon-tagged Nuclear Reaction Analysis |
| IIRF | Infinite Impulse Response Filter |
| ECS-P | Energy-corrected Sudden-polynomial (scaling Law) |
| ABO | Adiabatic Born-Oppenheimer (wave Functions) |
| LTDU | Land Treatment Demonstration Unit |
| VSV | Vesicular Stomatitis Virus |