| Acronym | Meaning |
| VOA | Volatile Organic Aromatic Compounds |
| ORFEUS | Orbiting Retrievable Far And Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrometers |
| RITD | Resonant Interband Tunneling Diode |
| CDF | Centered Dark Field |
| HFP | Hartree-Fock (plus) Pauli (terms) |
| EMMI | Environmental Monitoring Methods Index |
| SDF | Stromal Cell-derived Factor |
| HFFT | Hot Filament Fouling Test |
| BRCA2 | Breast Cancer Gene 2 |
| SFC | Specific Fuel Consumption |