| Acronym | Meaning |
| BAM | Brewster Angle Microscopy |
| CIRRUS-1A | Cryogenic IR Radiance Instrumentation For Shuttle |
| TVC | Thermal Vapor Compression |
| EUV | Extreme Ultraviolet |
| RTRP | Reinforced Thermosetting Resin Pipe |
| IUVSTA | International Union Of Vacuum Science |
| POCV | Pair Orthogonality Constrained Variation Method |
| IRPTC | International Register Of Potentially Toxic Chemicals |
| GNLSE | Generalized Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation |
| VIMOS | VIsible MultiObject Spectrograph |