| Acronym | Meaning |
| FASINEX | Frontal Air-Sea Interaction Experiment |
| SDM | Suit Of Software For UNIX-based Computing Platforms |
| AACR | Angle-American Cataloging Rules |
| ARIES | Automated Retirement And Integrated Extraction System |
| TRACE | Transition Region And Coronal Explorer |
| EMF | Electromagnetic Field/force |
| NCTM | National Council Of Teachers Of Mathematics |
| OPS | Onboard Payload Support |
| PIRAQ-III | PC-based Radar Acquisition ? 3rd Generation |
| DSDP | Deep Sea Drilling Project |