| Acronym | Meaning |
| OAS | Organization Of American States |
| CASP | Canadian Atlantic Storms Project (or Program) |
| NIH | National Institute Of Health |
| SPIRES | Stanford Physics Information Retrieval System |
| AOS | Archive And Operations System |
| ISRO | Indian Space Research Organization |
| ASC | Advanced Science Computer |
| IUTAM | International Union Of Theoretical And Applied Mechanics |
| CAPP | Center For Applied Parallel Processing |
| IAEA | International Atomic Energy Agency |