| Acronym | Meaning |
| VOFF | Valence Orbital Force Field |
| MOZAIC | Measurement Of Ozone And Water Vapor By Airbus In-Service Aircraft |
| CHW | Coherent Hole Wave (quantum Excitations In Solids) |
| SATI | Spectral Airglow Temp. Imager |
| P-A TEST | Presence-absence Test |
| NSOM | Near-field Scanning Optical Microscopy |
| AFPAL | Air Force Phillips Astronautics Laboratory (USA) |
| MCHF-BP | Multiconfiguration Hartree-Fock Breit-Pauli |
| ORFEUS | Orbiting Retrievable Far And Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrometers |
| COASTS | Coastal Ocean Advanced Science And Technology Study (IOC Program) |