| Acronym | Meaning |
| PREVENT | Pacific Northwest Regional Visibility Expt. Using Natural Tracers |
| NCLI | National Chemical Laboratory For Industry (Japan) |
| ERCP | Emergency Response Concept Plan |
| EDQNM | Eddy-damped Quasinormal Markovian [mathematics In Engineering] |
| AMV | Alfalfa Mosaic Virus |
| PMOS | P-channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor |
| ATG | Derivative Thermal Anal. |
| AFRPL | Air Force Rocket Propulsion Laboratory (USA) |
| MRS | Materials Research Society |
| LMXB | Low-mass X-ray Binaries |