| Acronym | Meaning |
| TIROS | Television And IR Observation Satellite |
| AFSB | Anaerobic Fluidized Sludge Blanket |
| MRO | Medium Range Order |
| ED | Electron Diffraction |
| GPIB | General Purpose Interface Bus |
| SQM | Scaled Quantum Mechanics (in Ab Initio Calcns.) |
| CSEM | Coherent Self-energy Method |
| SSC | Sulfide Stress Cracking |
| PAM | Periodic Anderson Model |
| ELMF | European Large Magnetic Field Facility |