| Acronym | Meaning |
| KST | Max. Vol.-independent Pressure Increase Rate |
| BICFET | Bipolar Inversion Channel Field-effect Transistor |
| PHENIX | Pioneering High Energy Nuclear Interaction EXperiment |
| GS | Gelius-Siegbahn (MO Approxn.) |
| VIMS | Visible And IR Mapping Spectrometer |
| POF | Polymer Optical Fiber |
| BKW | Bobylev-Krook-Wu (method For Solving The Boltzmann Equation For A Mol. System) |
| AAW | Air Acetylene Welding |
| DBE | Distorted-wave Born Exchange |
| PRIMA | Pattern Recognition By Independent Multicategory Analysis |