| Acronym | Meaning |
| NEAT | Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking |
| PABX | Private Automated Branch EXchange (company Phone System) |
| TDMA | Time Division Multiple Access |
| MTBF | Mean Time Between Failures |
| ORD | O'hare International Airport In Chicago |
| AWOL | Absent Without Official Leave / Absent WithOut Leave (military Jargon) |
| B?C | Blue ?yster Cult |
| WEU | Western European Union |
| LZ | Bulgaria (amateur Radio ITU Prefix) -Landing Zone |
| EDC | DAAC -EROS Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center |