| Acronym | Meaning |
| IRS | Interferon-responsive Sequence |
| CBMAPDT | Committee On Biologic Markers Of Air-Pollution Damage In Trees |
| BRS | Bibliographic Retrieval Service |
| MVCD | Magnetic Vibrational Circular Dichroism |
| SARIS | Scattering And Recoiling Imaging Spectrometry |
| USANS | Ultra-small-angle Neutron Scattering |
| IMSD | Information Management And Services Division |
| NVPA | No-virtual-pair Approxn. |
| TMR | Tunneling Magnetoresistance |
| BIXS | Beta-ray Induced X-ray Spectrometry |