| Acronym | Meaning |
| ADARD | Acid Deposition And Atmospheric Research Division |
| SATI | Spectral Airglow Temp. Imager |
| REOS | Remote Electro-Optical Sensor |
| UOVMO | Unoccupied Valence-type Mol. Orbital |
| APS | American Physical Society |
| VREF | Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus Faecium |
| MODR | Microwave Optical Double Resonance |
| MMPC | Metal-matrix Particulate Composites |
| DLC | Diamondlike Carbon |
| SADP | Selected Area Diffraction Patterns |