| Acronym | Meaning |
| SBA | Small Business Administration |
| LITGS | Laser Induced Thermal Grating Spectroscopy |
| CTIO | Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory |
| MSA | Many-trajectory Semiclassical Approxn. (in At.-collision Theory) |
| UCM | Unresolved Complex Mixt. |
| FACT | Fuel And Combustion Technology |
| GRP | Glass Reinforced Plastic |
| ZHEV | Zero-Headspace Extraction Vessel |
| GASP | Gamma Astronomy At The South Pole |
| RVCM | Residual Vinyl Chloride Monomer |