| Acronym | Meaning |
| AEAPS | Auger-electron Appearance-potential Spectroscopy |
| IMAGE | Imager For Magnetosphere-to-Aurora Global Exploration |
| ANSR | Advanced Neutron Source Reactor |
| BIXE | Bombardment-induced X-ray Emission |
| HGMF | High Gradient Magnetic Filtration |
| IETS | Inelastic Electron Tunneling Spectroscopy |
| NASO | Nasmyth Adaptive Optics System |
| CNDO/2-FA | Complete Neglect Of Differential Overlap First Approxn. |
| CFM | Continued-fraction Method |
| MGED | Microarray Gene Expression Database |