| Acronym | Meaning |
| AESOP | Airborne Experiment To Study Ozone Production |
| SS | Stainless Steel |
| TOVS | TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder |
| FZ | Fusion Zone |
| BOT | Build-operate-transfer [an Agreement Or Contract] |
| MVR | Mechanical Vapor Recompression (evaporator) |
| MPPT | Moeller-Plesset Perturbation Theory |
| DCN | Document Change Notice |
| TOFD | Time Of Flight Diffraction |
| QHA | Quasi-harmonic Approxn. (in Intramol. Vibrational Relaxation) |