| Acronym | Meaning |
| MULSAM | Multispectral Analytical Electron Microscope |
| APCA | Air Pollution Control Association |
| ECCD | Exciton-coupled Circular Dichroism |
| BPFT | Bohm-Pines-Fock-Tani (Hamiltonian In Calcns. On Plasmons) |
| CPED | Convergent Probe Electron Diffraction |
| IMAPS | Interstellar Medium Absorption Profile Spectrograph |
| ACLSV | Apple Chlorotic Leaf Spot Virus |
| PESOS | Perkin-Elmer Solvent Optimization System |
| LISA | Lander For Ion-selective Analysis |
| SID | Selected Ion Detection |