| Acronym | Meaning |
| YV | Yoctovolt |
| NA | Sodium |
| FX | Firefox -Metropolitan France (ISO 3166 Digram; Obsolete 1997) |
| CTO | Chief Technical Officer - Chief Technology Officer |
| CAVOK | Ceiling And Visibility OK (Kav-okay) |
| MZ | Mach-Zehnder (interferometer) -Magnetic Azimuth -Move |
| ATB | Active Time Battle -British Antarctic Territory (ISO 3166 Trigram; Merged With AQ In 1979) |
| SPIE | Originally The Society For Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE - The International Society For Optical Engineering 1981?2007 |
| PYG | Paraguayan Guarani (ISO 4217 Currency Code) |
| OIF | Operation Iraqi Freedom |