| Acronym | Meaning |
| FLOPS | Floating Point Operations Per Second |
| NHC | National Hurricane Center |
| AMD | Alpha Activity Median Diameter |
| GLOCHEM | Global Atmospheric Chemistry (or Chemical) Survey |
| AEN | Administrative Exception Note |
| NTN | National Telecommunications Network |
| DCE | Distributed Computing Environment |
| ADO | Associate Director For Operations |
| DELNI | Digital Equipment Local Network Interconnect |
| MSE | Mean Square Error |