| Acronym | Meaning |
| NASA | National Aeronautics And Space Administration |
| HIGFET | Heterostructure Insulated Gate Field Effect Transistor |
| GTN | Global Trend Network |
| STCA | Simplified Traveling-cluster Approxn. (for Electronic Structure) |
| SC-2D | State-correlated Two-dimensional (NMR Spectroscopy) |
| BSR | Bottom Simulating Reflection |
| SSDW | Static-static Distorted-wave (method) |
| PTB | Phosphotyrosine Binding |
| MBGF | Many-body Green Function |
| PIAS | Photon-counting Image Acquisition System |