| Acronym | Meaning |
| APHEA2 | Air Pollution And Health: A European Approach 2 |
| CVL | Copper Vapor Laser |
| MSS | Multispectral Scanner |
| START | Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty |
| GOODS | Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey |
| VGAAS | Vapor Generation Atomic Absorption Spectrometry |
| CP-LSDA | Car-Parrinello Local Spin Density Functional |
| AXAF | Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility |
| HMRCI | Hazardous Materials Control Research Institute |
| MAFID | Moment Analysis Of Fluorescence-intensity Distribution |