| Acronym | Meaning |
| CGRO | Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory |
| ISBN | International Standard Book Number |
| OMB | Office Of Management And Budget |
| NIWG | National Interagency Work Group |
| CARCA | Computer-assisted Rocking Curve Analysis |
| LHASA | Logic And Heuristics Applied To Synthetic Analysis |
| PIRL | Polyimide Release Layer |
| MOUSE | Method Of Underground Solute Evaluation |
| CIP | Configuration Interaction With Partner Orbitals |
| PUCHF | Perturbed Uncoupled Hartree-Fock |