| Acronym | Meaning |
| ICM | Inner Cell Mass |
| CIDA | Cometary Impact Dust Analyzer |
| CSMA | Chemical Specialties Manufacturers Association |
| LRAT | Lecithin-retinol Acyltransferase |
| SC-SI | Semiclassical State Interaction (method For Solving Schroedinger Equation) |
| CSEM | Coherent Self-energy Method |
| SSUSI | Special Sensor UV Spectrographic Imager |
| SLAPW | Superlinearized Augmented Plane Wave |
| CERES | Cloud And The Earth's Radiant Energy System |
| AU | Absorbance Units |