| Acronym | Meaning |
| CV | Calibrated Volume |
| CDAA | Choline-deficient L-amino Acid Defined Diet |
| AFS | AIRS Facility Subsystem (subsystem Of AIRS) |
| GDR | German Democratic Republic |
| OLR | Organic Loading Rate |
| HF | Heart Failure |
| MDS | Matrix-diagonalization Sudden Approximation (for Atom Surface Scattering Calcns.) |
| AVHRR | Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (NASA) |
| AGRP | Agouti-related Protein |
| WFM | Work Function Microscopy |