| Acronym | Meaning |
| RFI | Radio Frequency Interference |
| ELA | Excimer Laser Annealing |
| NICMOS | Near-IR Camera And Multiobject Spectrometer |
| S-MPPT | Supermolecular Moeller-Plesset Perturbation Theory |
| SPALEED | Spot Profile Analysis Low Energy Electron Diffraction |
| OASCR | Office Of Advanced Scientific Computing Research |
| HEM | Human Exposure Model |
| PE | Performance Evaluation |
| LAPIS | Linden Atmosphere/Phytosphere Interaction Study |
| SCIAMACHY | SCanning Imaging Absorption SpectroMeter For Atmospheric CHartographY |