| Acronym | Meaning |
| UDDI | Universal Description, Discovery And Integration |
| PROM | Programmable Read-Only Memory |
| DAO | Data Access Objects |
| MEMS | MicroElectro-Mechanical System |
| MFLOPS | Millions Of Floating Point Operations Per Second |
| TFTP | Trivial File Transfer Protocol |
| CCD | Charge-Coupled Device |
| MDIS | Metadata Interchange Specification |
| UML | Unified Modeling Language |
| SMDS | Switched Multimegabit Data Services |