| Acronym | Meaning |
| MKS | Unit Of Force Replaced By Newtons |
| SIGGRAPH | Special Interest Group On Graphics Of The Association Of Computing Machinery |
| DCTN | Defense Commercial Telecommunications Network |
| SISEX | Shuttle Imaging Spectrometer Experiment |
| AWFTF | Aviation Weather Forecasting Task Force |
| OLR | Outgoing Longwave Radiation |
| M-UCSD | University Of California At San Diego |
| LCC | Life Cycle Cost |
| WAMFLEX | Wave Momentum Flux Experiment |
| FTACH | Fourier Tachometer |