| Acronym | Meaning |
| SMILES | Superconducting Sub-Millimeter-wave Limb Emission Sounder |
| LNG | Liquefied Natural Gas |
| TMA | Thermomagnetic Analysis |
| SBE | Single Base Extension |
| RACS | Response Action Contractors |
| CSCF | Complex Self-consistent Field |
| MCK | Muscle Creatine Kinase |
| AUFS | Absorbance Units Full Scale |
| GBF | Gibbs-Bogolyubov-Feynman (variational Principle) |
| NAIP | Neuronal Apoptosis Inhibitory Protein |