| Acronym | Meaning |
| ORNL | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| CCR | California Code Of Regulations |
| VSWR | Voltage Standing-wave Ratio |
| CEA | Commissariat A |
| FNOC | Fleet Numerical Operations Center |
| IDL | Interface Definition Language |
| FAME | Florida Area Mesoscale Experiment |
| BSRN | Boulder Science Resource Network |
| WARN | Weather-Auto Relay Network |
| NSO | National Solar Observatory |