| Acronym | Meaning |
| PAW | Plasma Arc Welding |
| AGE | Affinity Gel Electrophoresis |
| AFFTC | Air Force Flight Test Center |
| POES | Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellites |
| AEI | Avalanche Electron Injection |
| AREELS | Angle-resolved Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy |
| HAZW | Hazardous Waste Collection Database (accessible Through OLS) |
| CHEMFET | Chem. Modified Field Effect Transistor |
| CSI | Crystal Structure Imaging |
| CCA | Crystalline Cluster Approach (in Electronic Structure Calcns.) |