| Acronym | Meaning |
| CIC | Consumer Information Catalog |
| CD-SCSAG | Centrifugal Dominant-small Curvature Semiclassical Adiabatic Ground State (tunneling Approxn.) |
| BIXS | Beta-ray Induced X-ray Spectrometry |
| PFPD | Pulsed-flame Photometer Detector |
| EINP | Energy-independent Nonlocal Pseudopotential |
| SICP | Sealed Inductively Coupled Plasma |
| CFM | Central Field Model |
| UEATC | European Union For Technical Agreements In Construction (French; L'Union Europeenne Pour L'Agrement Technique Dans La Construc |
| VCC-IOS | Vibrational Close-coupling-(rotational) Infinite-order Sudden (for Inelastic Mol. Collisions Calcns.) |
| IMAGE | Imager For Magnetosphere-to-Aurora Global Exploration |