| Acronym | Meaning |
| NITS | National Institute Of Technology And Standards |
| LPAS | Laser Photoacoustic Spectroscopy |
| CV | Cyclic Voltammetry |
| NICMOS | Near-IR Camera And Multiobject Spectrometer |
| PNET | Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor |
| CMX | Connected-moments Expansion |
| JWKB | Jeffreys-Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (scattering Potential) |
| COADS | Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set |
| SMM | Scanning Magnetic Microscopy |
| INTEGRAL | International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory |