| Acronym | Meaning |
| HSCT | High Speed Civil Transport |
| MIP | Millions Of Instructions Per Second |
| LATAS | Laser True Airspeed System |
| SOLSTICE | Solar/Stellar Intercomparison Experiment |
| ICCP | International Commission Of Clouds And Precipitation |
| PCRGA | Precipitation Chemistry |
| BSI | British Standards Institute |
| ARL | Air Resources Laboratory |
| AASE | Airborne Arctic Stratospheric Expedition |
| AFM | Atomic Force Microscopy |