| Acronym | Meaning |
| OECD | Organization For Economic Cooperation And Development |
| BP | Boundary Profile |
| MFENET | National Magnetic Fusion Energy Network |
| BLPS | Boundary Layer Profiler System |
| GIPS | Billions Of Instructions Per Second |
| NNMI | Nonlinear Normal Mode Initialization Software |
| SAFARI-2000 | The Southern African Regional Science Initiative |
| OMO | Orbiting Meteorological Observatory |
| UCSB | University Of California At Santa Barbara |
| AMC | American Mining Congress |