| Acronym | Meaning |
| IDIMS | Interactive Digital Image Manipulation System |
| NEAR | Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous |
| TRRS | Time-resolved Raman Spectroscopy |
| FMDF | Fixed Mirror Distributed Focus (solar Concentrator) |
| CSA | Coupled Static Approxn. (in Scattering Calcns.) |
| LASP | Laboratory For Atmospheric And Space Physics |
| CSTR | Continuously Stirred Tank Reactor |
| BEHP | Bis(2-ethylhexyl) Phthalate |
| BCCD | Brueckner Coupled Cluster With Double Excitations |
| ALOMAR | Arctic Lidar Observatory For Middle Atm. Research |