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• EDAS — Eta Data Assimilation System
• CPR — Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
• CF — Cystic Fibrosis
• HIV — Human Immunodeficiency Virus I
• CHF — Congestive Heart Failure
• AD — Atopic Dermatitis
• LAN — Local Area Network
• US — United States of America
• AHRQ — Agency for Health, Research, and Quality
• HIPAA — Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
• DO — Dissolved Oxygen
• AA — Ascorbic Acid
• MUX — Multiplexer
• CMAP — Compound Muscle Action Potential
• IPCC — Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (WMO and UNEP)
• MM — Millimeter
• FTP — File Transfer Protocol
• ADH — Antidiuretic Hormone
• ASD — Atrial Septal Defect
• AS — Aortic Stenosis
• AAS — Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry
• ROM — Read-Only Memory
• LASER — Light Amplification By Stimulated Emission Of Radiation (cf. Maser)
• CO2 — Carbon Dioxide
• CPU — Central Processing Unit
• A — Ampere
• WWW — World Wide Web
• H2O2 — Hydrogen Peroxide
• NHLBI — National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
• ICD — Interface Control Document
• UNCLOS — United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (policy treaty)
• OPS — Operations
• A BY E — Admission by Exception
• UK — United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• WHO — World Health Organization
• ANSI — American National Standards Institute, Inc.
• CSA — Canadian Space Agency
• BTW — By The Way
• CAIS — Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome
• ISO — International Organization for Standardization
• QC — Quality Control
• AIDS — Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (see also SIDS and HIV)
• ANP — Atrial Natriuretic Peptide
• AATSR — Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer
• ESA — European Space Agency
• NIEO — New International Economic Order
• DBMS — Database Management System
• UCAAD — University Committee on Affirmative Action and Diversity
• LCD — Liquid Crystal Display
• CGI — Clinical Global Impression

• RDF — Combustion of Refuse Derived Fuels
• AC — Alternating Current
• FET — Field Effect Transistor
• CSF — Cerebrospinal Fluid
• CD — Compact Disc
• RF — Radio Frequency
• CBF — Cerebral Blood Flow
• RIXOS — ROSAT International X-Ray optical Survey
• CBO — Congressional Budget Office
• ACF — Autocorrelation Function
• AU — Astronomical Unit
• MB — Megabyte
• IOC — Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
• CV — Curriculum Vitae
• ALL — Adult Lymphoblastic Leukemia
• CS — Computer Science
• CNS — Central Nervous System
• GATT — General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (government)
• IP — Internet Protocol
• CO — Carbon Monoxide
• UNESCO — United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
• TB — Tuberculosis
• APU — Auxiliary Power Unit
• BFGF — Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor
• CGI — Common Gateway Interface
• USDA — United States Department of Agriculture
• ADS — Astrophysics Data System
• MDCK — Madin-Darby Canine Kidney
• APT — Automatic Picture Transmission
• HTTP — Hypertext Transfer Protocol
• ATN — Acute Tubular Necrosis
• DOT — Department of Transport
• CAD — Coronary Artery Disease
• GIS — Geographic Information System
• PT — Physical Therapy
• SIR — Shuttle Imaging Radar
• CIN — Conjunctival Intraepithelial Neoplasia
• CFC-12 — CCl2F2, dichlorodifluoromethane, Freon-12
• DMSP — Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (U.S.)
• R&D — Research & Development
• PCB — Polychlorinated Biphenyls
• ATM — Asynchronous Transfer Mode
• N2O — nitrous oxide (anesthetic)
• AGL — Above Ground Level
• CBC — Complete Blood Count
• N2O5 — nitrogen pentoxide, nitric anhydride
• COSPAR — Committee on Space Research (ICSU)
• FOV — Field Of View (satellite)
• MSDS — Material Safety Data Sheets
• MOU — Memorandum of Understanding (an MOU between Food & Drug Administratin and a regulatory agency in another country allows mutual recognition of inspections)

• WAN — Wide Area Network
• ICU — Intensive Care Unit
• BASDAI — Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Index
• ARDS — Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
• BBT — Basal Body Temperature
• ASAP — Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel
• BAC — Boeing Aerospace Company
• BOD — Biological Oxygen Demand
• OSO — Orbiting Solar Observatory
• CRS — Congressional Research Service
• MRI — Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• PPM — parts per million
• ACS — American College of Surgeons
• GSE — Ground Support Equipment
• CA — cytosine arabinoside
• PDF — Portable Document Format (created by Adobe Acrobat)
• ASR — Airport Surveillance Radar
• AF — Air Force
• WWW — World Weather Watch
• ANC — Absolute Neutrophil Count
• IFOV — Instantaneous Field Of View
• OPD — Outpatient Department
• E-LIDAR — Experimental LIDAR
• DME — Durable Medical Equipment
• EC — European Commission
• XPM — Cross-Phase Modulation
• BTU — British Thermal Unit
• A.K.A. — Also Known As
• A-SCAT — Advanced Scatterometer
• API — Application Programming Interface
• CIO — Chief Information Officer
• DEC — Digital Equipment Corporation
• DTE — Data Terminal Equipment
• A-SAR — Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar
• HMO — Health Maintenance Organization
• DILHR — Department of Industry Labor and Human Relations
• ASTM — American Society for Testing and Materials (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
• KG — Kilogram
• RDBMS — Relational Database Management System
• SIG — Special Interest Group
• POE — Point of Entry
• GO — Guest Observer
• SUV — Sport Utility Vehicle
• CAP — College of American Pathologists
• AM — Amplitude Modulation
• OECD — Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
• O3 — Ozone
• SQA — Software Quality Assurance
• BAEPS — Brain Stem Auditory Evoked Potentials
• BCC — Basal Cell Carcinoma

• ATS — applications technology satellite
• NO — Nitric Oxide
• ARE — Antioxidant Response Element
• DDT — Dichloro Diphenyl Trichlorethane
• NM — Nanometer
• CBD — Common Bile Duct
• GMP — Good Manufacturing Practice
• BMA — British Medical Association
• CEN — Committee European de Normalisation
• APD — Avalanche Photo Diode
• GCM — General Circulation Model
• ASCII — American National Standard Code for Information Interchange
• EMF — Electromotive Force
• EPA — Environmental Protection Agency (US)
• ALPEX — Alpine Experiment
• IPY — International Polar Year
• ADL — Avionics Development Laboratory
• DCP — Defined Contribution Plan
• UHF — Ultra High Frequency (300-3000 MHz; 1m-10cm)
• CGD — Chronic Granulomatous Disease
• CRO — Contract Research Organization
• GUI — Graphical User Interface (goo-ey)
• TBC — To Be Confirmed
• ABA — American Bar Association
• CHD — Coronary Heart Disease
• GPS — Global Positioning System (ex-NAVSTAR)
• DIAL — Differential Absorption Lidar (laser Radar Sensing)
• ADA — Americans With Disabilities Act Of 1990 (Text Of ADA Legislation)
• FIFO — First In, First Out
• IRB — Institutional Review Board
• FFT — Fast Fourier Transform
• CAPE — Convective Available Potential Energy
• AJ — Astronomical Journal
• LPG — Liquid Petroleum Gas
• ABR — Auditory Brainstem Response
• ADPE — Automatic Data Processing Equipment
• AMU — Atomic Mass Unit
• EGA — Enhanced Graphics Adapter
• ATSDR — Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease Registry
• CCB — Calcium Channel Blocker
• CLD — Chronic Lung Disease
• TED — Total Energy Detector
• DNS — Domain Name System
• CDF — Common Data Format
• AGA — appropriate for gestational age
• RCS — Revision Control System
• CH4 — Methane, Natural Gas
• BIT — Binary Digit (either 0 Or 1)
• AMS — American Meteorological Society
• IOSH — Institution of Occupational Safety and Health

• BAS — British Antarctic Survey
• MSFC — Marshall Space Flight Center (Huntsville AL)
• FTE — Full Time Equivalent
• HCFA — Health Care Financing Administration
• DARPA — Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (US)
• DNA — Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid
• ACF — Asymmetric Crying Facies
• SISEX — Shuttle Imaging Spectrometer Experiment
• NCCLS — National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards
• ATA — Alimentary Toxic Aleukia
• HV — High Voltage
• ARA — Attitude Reference Assembly
• VHF — Very High Frequency
• CIMSS — Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies
• CRF — Case Report Form
• RAM — random-access memory
• S-GCOS — Space-Based Global Change Observation System
• W — Watt
• PR — Precipitation Radar
• PNG — Portable Network Graphics (graphic file standard/extension)
• PVC — Polyvinyl Chloride
• EU — European Union (1994; formerly referred to as the EEC or EC)
• MHS — Microwave Humidity Sounder
• SEM — Space Environment Monitor
• SPR — Software Problem Report
• DC — Direct Current
• OP — Office of the President
• PA — Preliminary Assessment
• NIF — National Ignition Facility
• DPI — Department of Public Instruction
• COFR — Certificate of Flight Readiness
• PS — PostScript
• GO — General Observer
• PPO — Preferred provider organization
• CH — Chronic Hepatitis
• LF — Low Frequency
• CCTV — Closed-circuit television
• CTS — Canadian Technology Satellite
• NSTS — National Space Transportation System
• HADRT — Hadley Center Radiosonde temperature
• BSE — Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
• PBL — Planetary Boundary Layer
• ACP — Acyl-Carrier Protein
• DFRC — Dryden Flight Research Center
• RCRA — Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (1976, 1984)
• CA — Cancer Antigen
• AHA — American Hospital Association
• ACR — Active Cavity Radiometer
• NSF — National Sanitation Foundation
• CW — Continuous Wave

• ERS — Environmental Research Satellite
• HADCM — Hadley Center Model
• LAC — Local Area Coverage
• BBS — Bulletin Board System
• TAO — Tropical Atmosphere Ocean
• E&CE — Electrical and Computer Engineering
• AOS — Acquisition Of Signal
• FSA — Flexible Spending Account
• NASP — National Aerospace Plane
• ISAMS — Improved Stratospheric and Mesospheric Sounder
• NAI — No Action Indicated (Most Favorable Food & Drug Administration Post-inspection Classification)
• APP — Amyloid Precursor Protein
• FCOS — Flight Computer Operating System (Orbiter)
• CML — Chronic Myeloid Leukemia
• CCD — Central Core Disease
• SME — Solar Mesosphere Explorer
• AMM — Agnogenic Myeloid Metaplasia
• CLD — Chronic Liver Disease
• AP — Anomalous Propagation
• DRS — Data Relay Satellite
• HOPPS — Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System
• AIS — Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome
• CRT — Cathode Ray Tube (type of TV)
• ATSR — Along-Track Scanning Radiometer
• CVS — Concurrent Versions System
• HF — High Frequency
• NIOSH — National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• CEL — Chronic Eosinophilic Leukemia
• CH — Channel
• AIS — Airborne Imaging Spectrometer
• UNEP — United Nations Environment Program
• AIP — Acute Intermittent Porphyria
• PSD — Power Spectral Density
• MFA — Manned Flight Awareness
• CAI — Codon Adaptation Index
• RS — Remote Sensing
• TB — Terabyte
• CAM — Cell Adhesion Molecule
• AARP — American Association of Retired Persons
• CK — Creatine Kinase
• CONUS — Continental United States (48 Contiguous States and DC)
• MSU — Microwave Sounding Unit
• AAMI — Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation
• JSC — Johnson Space Center (Houston, TX)
• LVS — Launch Vehicle Simulator
• RTF — Return To Flight
• MOL — Manned Orbital Laboratory
• PRF — Pulse Repetition Frequency
• AAD — Australian Antarctic Division
• EMAIL — Electronic Mail

• APC — Activated Protein C
• SWT — Science Working Team
• PDP — Postinsertion Deorbit Preparation
• DG — Dentate Gyrus
• NEMS — NASA Equipment Management System
• PU — Propellant Utilization
• AP — Acid Phosphatase
• CTM — Chemical Transport Model
• MRC — Medical Research Council
• EM — Electromagnetic
• DOD — United States Department of Defense
• ENVISAT — European Space Agency Environmental Satellite
• SH — Southern Hemisphere
• MCP — Microchannel Plate
• ACML — Atypical Chronic Myeloid Leukemia
• CD — Celiac Disease
• AFM — Atomic Force Microscope
• AD — autistic disorder
• MSW — Municipal Solid Waste
• NESDIS — National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service
• ALV — Avian Leukosis Virus
• QA — Center for Quality Assurance in International Education
• AIS — Adenocarcinoma in Situ
• AFV — Amniotic Fluid Volume
• ASC — Ambulatory Surgery Center
• AR — Androgen Receptor
• WG — Working Group
• ADEOS — ADvanced Earth Observing Satellite (Japan)
• ALL — Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia
• ASD — Autism Spectrum Disorder
• COBE — Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite (NASA)
• ND — NASA Document
• ATCC — American Type Culture Collection
• ABPM — ambulatory blood pressure monitoring system
• CAD — Computer Aided Designer
• MOSPO — Mobile Satellite Photometric Observatory
• AMD — Acid Maltase Deficiency
• THR — Thrust
• AA — Acrylic Acid
• MERSAT — Meteorology And Earth Observation Satellite
• DOJ — Department of Justice (US)
• JPL — Jet Propulsion Laboratory (California Institute of Technology) (NASA)
• GB — Gigabyte
• AFTN — Autonomously Functioning Thyroid Nodule
• CAPD — Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis
• FY — Fiscal Year
• HNO3 — Nitric Acid
• DEC — Declination
• AIL — Avionics Integration Laboratories
• EOL — End Of Life

• AAAS — American Association for the Advancement of Science
• SMPTRB — Shuttle Main Propulsion Test Requirement Board
• CDL — California Digital Library
• AR — Aspect Ratio
• ERBS — Earth Radiation Budget Satellite
• ODP — Ozone Depletion Potential
• CH3CL — Methyl Chloride
• ARS — Acute Radiation Syndrome
• PPB — parts per billion (109)
• TFT — Thin Film Transistor
• OPS — Optical Sensor
• AFB — Air Force Base (USAF)
• ITCZ — Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone
• ARDS — Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome
• AMML — Acute Myelomonocytic Leukemia
• CC — Colon Cancer
• IEC — International Electrotechnical Commission
• CDH — Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia
• CE — Cholesterol Ester
• O2 — Oxygen
• CORSA — Cosmic Radiation Satellite
• DNV — Det Norske Veritas
• ERSIR — Earth Resources Shuttle Imaging Radar
• FITS — Flexible Image Transport System
• OCONUS — Outside Continental United States
• SCR — Software Change Request
• DORIS — Doppler Orbitography And Radiopositioning Integrated By Satellite (EOS)
• TWP — Tropical Western Pacific
• COMSAT — Communications Satellite Corporation
• ATP — Adult Treatment Panel
• LARC — Langley Research Center (NASA)
• AMA — Advanced Maternal Age
• FDA — Food Drug Administration
• CLAH — Congenital Lipoid Adrenal Hyperplasia
• IAU — International Astronomical Union
• DOS — Disk Operating System
• IPA — Individual Practice Association
• CHIME — College of Healthcare Information Management Executives
• OIG — Office of Inspector General
• CD-ROM — Compact Disc-Read-Only Memory
• ARF — Acute Rheumatic Fever
• ABS — acute bacterial sinusitis
• SSV — Space Shuttle Vehicle
• COMET — Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology Education and Training (NOAA and UCAR)
• ADR — Adiabatic Demagnetization Refrigerator
• TM — Telemetry
• DOE — United States Department of Energy (government)
• TMAPI — Topic Map Application Programming Interface
• SPMP — Software Project Management Plan
• CHD — Congenital Heart Disease

• AIN — Anal Intraepithelial Neoplasia
• DASD — Direct Access Storage Device
• NAM — National Association of Manufacturers
• JOP — Jupiter Orbiter Probe
• XRONOS — Time-Series analysis package, part of XANADU
• MOD — Maximum Operating Depth
• AICE — American Institute of Chemical Engineers
• CDM — Clean Development Mechanism
• IR — Infrared
• AMSR — Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer
• LPLWS — Launch Pad Lightning Warning System
• BNL — Brookhaven National Laboratory
• AES — Agricultural Experiment Station
• ASEAN — Association of Southeast Asian Nations
• AID — Artificial Insemination Donor
• PC — Personal computer (host)
• TIPS — Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities
• AO — Acridine Orange
• WRT — "With respect to", especially in fields such as Mathematics.
• EUVE — Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (NASA Satellite)
• AFGL — Air Force Geophysics Laboratory
• ESDAC — European Space Data Center
• A3RI — Antarctic Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Institute
• CFR — Code of Federal Regulations
• SSI — Space Studies Institute
• APCR — Activated Protein C Resistance
• CIN — Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia
• CCF — Cross-Correlation Function
• EFM — Electrostatic Force Microscopy
• USP — United States Pharmacopeia
• AD — Autosomal Dominant
• ABMT — Autologous Bone Marrow Transplant
• P-N — Positive-Negative
• CRO2 — Chromium Oxide
• DOC — Doctor
• NAS — United States National Academy of Sciences
• DDD — Detailed Design Document
• LSSL — Life Sciences Space Laboratory
• RPM — Revolutions Per Minute, (Rotations Per Minute)
• SNR — Signal-to-Noise Ratio
• LE — Low Energy
• IRIS — Infrared Interferometer Spectrometer
• PV — Potential Vorticity
• EMT — Extraordinary Masochistic Tendencies (joke At Expense Of Emergency Medical Technicians)
• CGMP — Cyclic Guanosine Monophosphate
• ISA — Instrument Society of America
• ETS — Educational Testing Service
• NRC — National Response Center
• BAFME — Benign Adult Familial Myoclonic Epilepsy
• MIPS — Merritt Island Press Site

• CSU — Cleveland State University
• BNSC — British National Space Centre
• CFS — Cubic Feet per Second
• TMI — TRMM Microwave Imager
• NASDA — National Space Development Agency of Japan
• ROI — Return on Investment
• ASCA — Advanced Satellite for Cosmology & Astrophysics
• SONAR — (DOD) A sonic device used primarily for the detection and location of underwater objects.(This term is derived from the words "sound navigation and ranging.")
• AIS — Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis
• VLF — Very Low Frequency
• ISI — International Statistical Institute
• ERS — Earth Resources Satellite
• AT&T — American Telephone & Telegraph
• LIDAR — Lander Light Detection and Ranging
• HF — Hydrogen Fluoride
• EAP — Education Abroad Program
• BAD — Bipolar Affective Disorder
• SESL — Space Environment Simulation Laboratory
• NSIDC — National Snow and Ice Data Center (University of Colorado, Boulder)
• BASIC — Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
• UEA — University of East Anglia
• UC — University of California
• NIST — National Institute of Standards and Technology
• DMS — Dynamic Message Sign
• NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (US)
• OMB — Office of Management and Budget (U.S.)
• ROSAT — Roentgen Satellite
• CC — Combined Cycle
• IDE — Investigational Device Exemption
• AMA — American Medical Association
• AVNIR — advanced visible and near-infrared radiometer
• AHR — Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor
• DTED — Digital Terrain Elevation Data (dee-ted)
• ARC — Arctic Research Commission
• HZ — cycles per second (hertz)
• CETP — Cholesteryl Ester Transfer Protein
• ADPKD — Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease
• NAD — Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide
• IST — Instrument Support Terminal
• ABL — Acute Basophilic Leukemia
• CHB — Chronic Hepatitis B
• CAL/VAL — Calibration/Validation
• CIP — Cast-In-Place
• ASTER — Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission And Reflection Radiometer (EOS)
• GSFC — Goddard Space Flight Center (Greenbelt, MD)
• CIS — Carcinoma in Situ
• CBF — Ciliary Beat Frequency
• CLO — Chlorine Monoxide
• HTTPS — HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure
• LAGEOS — Laser Geodynamic Satellite

• WFOV — Wide Field Of View
• CLS — Cloud Lidar System
• SAW — Surface Acoustic Wave
• HE — High Energy
• COSSH — Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities
• NRC — National Research Council (Canada)
• BPS — bits per second
• BDV — Border Disease Virus
• VT — Visual Testing
• FD — Flight Dynamics
• MAP — Mesoscale Alpine Programme
• H2O — Water (vapor)
• CITECH — Center for Information on Technology in Healthcare
• APBD — adult polyglucosan body disease
• RADAR — RAdio Detection And Ranging
• CHB — congenital heart block
• MMDA — Michigan Medical Device Association
• AATP — Acquired Amegakaryocytic Thrombocytopenic Purpura
• DSN — Deep Space Network - network of large antennas and communication facilities.
• IDC — Indirect Costs
• COTS — Commercial Off the Shelf Software
• AR — Autosomal Recessive
• CA — Carbonic Anhydrase
• CD — Conduct Disorder
• TNT — Tri-nitro-toulene
• PM — Particulate Matter
• I&T WG — Integration and Test Working Group
• ABS — Antenatal Bartter Syndrome
• MTPE — Mission To Planet Earth
• ELS — Eastern Launch Site
• IUPAC — International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
• GSI — Graduate Student Instructor
• ASQ — Autism Screening Questionnaire
• BRO — Bromine Monoxide
• AME — Apparent Mineralocorticoid Excess
• ACRIM — Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor (EOS)
• CCA — Common Carotid Artery
• UV — Ultraviolet (Light)
• SEC — Sun-Earth Connection
• AOA — Airborne Optical Adjunct
• SUM — Software User's Manual
• CNG — Compressed natural gas
• SAO — Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
• OH — Hydroxyl Radical
• C — Centigrade
• AHO — Albright Hereditary Osteodystrophy
• CDM — Common Data Model
• CDC — Cell Division Cycle
• JD — Julian Day
• CCRS — Canada Centre for Remote Sensing

• OAQPS — Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
• DMERC — Durable Medical Equipment Regional Carrier
• BEN — Balkan endemic nephropathy
• ABHI — Association of British Health-Care Industries
• CTE — Charge Transfer Efficiency
• MGMA — Medical Group Management Association
• AK — Actinic Keratosis
• MEM — Meteoroid Exposure Module
• BCAA — branched chain amino acids
• LMSS — Lunar Mapping and Survey System
• AR — Aortic Regurgitation
• BASFI — Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Functional Index
• CCHS — Congenital central hypoventilation syndrome
• ADMCKD — Autosomal Dominant Medullary Cystic Disease
• SRB — Surface Radiation Budget
• CNRS — Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)
• XFDS — XMM Flight Dynamics System
• APR — Acute Phase Response
• SIR — Spaceborne Imaging Radar
• HIV — Hair Is Vanishing. Amusing alternative interpretation (thanks EP) contrasting with the seriousness of the more usual meaning of Human Immunodeficiency Virus.HIVIHusband Is Village Idiot. (ODSA) Classic nurses' shorthand.
• MPS — Materials Processing in Space
• NPD — NASA Policy Directive
• DSP — Digital Signal Processor
• MAGSAT — Magnetometer Satellite
• MFPE — Mission from Planet Earth
• ECS — EOSDIS Core System
• AS — Asperger Syndrome
• IC — Instrument Controller
• AOM — Acute Otitis Media
• SAO — Semi-Annual Oscillation
• CDA — Command and Data Acquisition
• UW — University of Washington
• NTP — National Toxicology Program
• XFTS — XMM File Transfer System
• APL — Applied Physics Laboratory (at Johns Hopkins)
• WLAN — Wireless Local Area Network
• IA — Interactive
• CIDI — Composite International Diagnostic Interview
• NOSS — National Oceanic Satellite System
• ADD — Architectural Design Document
• CST — Central Standard Time (UTC-6 Hours)
• COSTAR — Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement
• AO — Agent Orange
• CADIC — Centro Austral de Investigaciones Cientificas
• DMI — Danish Meteorological Institute
• ABM — Agaricus Blazei Murill
• CAP — Catabolite Activator Protein
• HEW — Half Energy Width
• UT — University of Tennessee
• IEEE — Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc.

• ACC — Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma
• ALT — Radar Altimeter
• EDC — EROS Data Center
• PS — Project Scientist
• DSMB — Data Safety Monitoring Board
• ISAS — Institute of Space and Astronautical Sciences (Japan)
• DTS — Data Transfer System
• CG — Complementation Group
• KHZ — kilohertz (1000 cycles per second)
• CDART — Conserved Domain Architecture Retrieval Tool
• UTC — Coordinated Universal Time
• SCB — Software Control Board
• AR — Aldose Reductase
• M — Million
• DDS — Domestic Data Service
• TRI — Toxics Release Inventory
• NCOS — National Commission on Space
• NEMA — National Electric Manufacturer's Association
• JEM — Japanese Experiment Module
• DBP — Defined Benefit Plan
• POEM — Polar-Orbiting Earth Mission
• AAMC — American Association of Medical Colleges
• AURIO — Auroral Imaging Observatory
• LANL — Los Alamos National Laboratory
• OSS — Office of Space Sciences
• CMP — Competitive Medical Plan
• STEP — Stratosphere Troposphere Exchange Project
• UT — Universal Time
• SCF — Standard Cubic Foot
• CD — Coeliac Disease
• RA — Right Ascension
• CDR — Common Deleted Region
• MEO — Mid Earth Orbit
• CFC — Chloro Fluoro Carbon
• ISCCP — International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project
• ACH — Active Chromatin Hub
• DCP — Data Collection Platform
• RD — Reference Document
• GAO — Government Accountability Office [formerly the General Accounting Office]
• STI — Steel Tank Institute
• PCA — Principal Component Analysis
• XIDT — X-Ray Identification Team
• BAEP — Brainstem Acoustic Evoked Potentials
• GWP — global warming potential (climate)
• UCORP — University Committee on Research Policy
• DBMS — Data Base Management System
• CE — Cooperative Extension
• PLSL — Propellants and Life Support Laboratory
• UCOLASC — University Committee on Library and Scholarly Communication
• REM — Rocket Engine Module

• CON — Certificate Of Need
• CC — Clomiphene Citrate
• GCP — Good Clinical Practice
• AFSCN — Air Force Space Command network
• CGL — Congenital Generalized Lipodystrophy
• NOS — National Ocean Service
• DOL — United States Department of Labor
• PHRMA — Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (formerly PMA, Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association)
• SOC — Space Operations Center
• AERONOX — Impact of NOx Emissions from Aircraft upon the Atmosphere
• CID — Combined Immunodeficiency Disease
• RPM — Resale Price Maintenance. The UK Net Book Agreement, as was. Means by which retail prices are controlled by primary suppliers. (Alternatively, Revolutions Per Minute, as in engine speed and 78, 33 and 45 records. In years to come how many people will know
• ACE — Angiotensin Converting Enzyme
• NO2 — Nitrogen Dioxide
• NCSU — North Carolina State University
• NSSL — National Severe Storms Laboratory
• UBA — Umweltbundesamt
• OAR — Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research
• SO4 — Sulfate radical
• BCRP — Breast Cancer Resistance Protein
• MMA — Minnesota Medical Association
• RVU — Relative Value Unit
• SPAS — Shuttle Pallet Satellite(German)
• AD — Applicable Document
• CALTRANS — California Department of Transportation
• CHC — Clathrin Heavy Chain
• SBSTA — Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice
• NPI — Norwegian Polar Institute
• NIH — NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH
• CCA — Chromated Copper Arsenate
• JRC — Joint Research Center
• FTC — Federal Trade Commission (U.S.)
• SEOS — Synchronous Earth Observation Satellite
• POGO — Polar Orbiting Geophysical Observatory
• ICF — Instrument Control Facility
• CFTD — Congenital Fiber-Type Disproportion
• CAFS — Conotruncal Anomaly Face Syndrome
• CCC — Cholangiocellular Carcinoma
• CAH — Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia
• PSCL — Propellant Systems Cleaning Laboratory
• JOI — Joint Oceanographic Institutions, Inc.
• ADT — Actual Dive Time
• AURA — Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc.
• HOP — High Output Paraffin
• CHAMEX — Cloud Height And Motion EXperiment
• C — Celsius
• ABBA — Automated Biomass Burning Algorithm
• CG — Ciliary Ganglion
• OSSA — Office of Space Sciences and Applications
• MMI — Man-Machine Interface

• CCHB — Complete Congenital Heart Block
• APEC — Avian Pathogenic Escherichia Coli
• TOVS — TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder
• GSC — Guide Star Catalog
• ADC — Affiliated Data Center
• AFIGE — Asymmetric Field Inversion Gel Electrophoresis
• AF — Amniotic Fluid
• SPART — Space Research and Technology
• CV — Cataclysmic Variable
• MIT — Massachusetts Institute of Technology (U.S.)
• CH — Cluster Headache
• AEH — Atypical Endometrial Hyperplasia
• CG — Center of Gravity (DXS)
• ALERT — Automated Local Evaluation in Real Time
• ASE — Aerospace Support Equipment
• NASA — National Aeronautics and Space Administration (US)
• CAP — Capital Accumulation Provision
• GMT — Greenwich Mean Time (Zulu)
• MPE — Mission to Planet Earth
• AXAF — Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility
• SAM — Stratospheric Aerosol Measurement
• ACE — Accessory Cholera Enterotoxin
• ATM — Atmospheric Transport Model
• ASI — Agenzia Spaziale Italiana
• MHW — Ministry of Health and Welfare
• CBPI — Cytokinesis-Block Proliferation Index
• ADCP — Adenosine Deaminase Complexing Protein
• RALPH — Reduction and Acquisition of Lunar Pulse Heights
• AFRRI — (U.S.) Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute
• PCMDI — Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison
• XRD — X-Ray Diffraction
• CAA — Clean Air Act (1970, amended in 1977, and again in 1990)
• APL — Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia
• ASHP — American Society of Hospital Pharmacists
• SRSS — Shuttle Range Safety System
• ANF — Atrial Natriuretic Factor
• KB — Kilobyte: One thousand and twenty-four bytes kbps kilo bit per second
• WEC — World Energy Council
• AL — Ad libitum
• AAAS — Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms
• UCP&T — University Committee on Privilege and Tenure
• SPP — Solar Physics Payload
• KW — Kilowatt (one thousand watts) (measurement)
• UCM-TF — University of California, Merced Task Force
• NIST — National Institute of Standards & Technology (US)
• CIDP — Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy
• RSRM — Redesigned Solid Rocket Motor
• CFC-11 — CCl3F, trichlorofluoromethane, Freon-11
• FFRDC — Federally Funded Research & Development Center
• AABR — Automated Auditory Brainstem Response

• CAI — Complete Androgen Insensitivity
• EC — European Community
• SSM/I — Special Sensor Microwave/Imager
• RMS — Royal Meteorological Society
• ARC — Ames Research Center (NASA)
• SAR — synthetic aperture radar (satellite)
• SI — Solar Influences
• BLAST — Basic Local Alignment Search Tool
• EPTOX — Extraction Procedure Toxicity
• DAT — Digital Audio Tape
• CGM — Computer Graphics Metafile
• BFH — Benign Familial Hematuria
• RTCS — Real-Time Computer System
• LLNL — The Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California
• ADHSP — Autosomal Dominant Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia
• G — Gram (g)
• CALLA — common acute lymphoblastic leukemia antigen
• ADMI — American Dye Manufacturers Institute
• ICE — International Cometary Explorer
• ASAP — Atypical Small Acinar Proliferation
• ARMD — Age-Related Macular Degeneration
• CMD — Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
• NDA — New Drug Application
• GTI — Good Time Interval
• HTML — Hyper Text Markup Language
• PPMV — Parts Per Million by Volume
• UCMEXUS — UC Institute for Mexico and the United States
• MITI — Ministry of International Trade & Industry (Japan)
• OAI — Official Action Indicated (serious Food & Drug Administration post-inspection classification)
• AFOSR — Air Force Office Of Scientific Research(USA)
• CCD — Charge Coupled Device - a device for the movement of electrical charge.
• SSBUV — shuttle solar backscatter ultraviolet (radiometer)
• ADOA — Autosomal Dominant Optic Atrophy
• AGNIC — Agriculture Network Information Center
• MAHLOVS — Middle and High Latitudes Oceanic Variability Study
• UCR&J — University Committee on Rules and Jurisdiction
• VOC — Volatile Organic Compounds (air pollution)
• ADCA — autosomal-dominant cerebellar ataxia
• CAMP — Cyclic Adenosine Monophosphate
• BIBEX — Biomass Burning Experiment (IGAC programme)
• AOL — Airborne Oceanographic LIDAR
• VAI — Voluntary Action Indicated (Food & Drug Administration postaudit inspection classification)
• TAG — Technical Advisory Group for Biological Control Agents of Weeds
• ADF — Amsterdam density functional
• AH — Amphipathic Helix
• DPU — data processing unit
• AWD — Alive With Disease
• CDRH — Center for Devices and Radiological Health (Food & Drug Administration)
• EAS — External Anal Sphincter
• ACF — Aberrant crypt foci

• ADA — Automatic Data Acquisition
• GPC — Global Processing Center
• NSSDC — National Space Science Data Center (Greenbelt, MD)
• AAD — Age at Diagnosis
• HIRA — Health Industry Representatives Association
• GOOS — Global Ocean Observing System (IOC, UNESCO, WMO, and ICSU)
• LEGRI — Low Energy Gamma-Ray Imager
• ADCI — American Die Casting Institute
• CSIRO — Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organization (Australia)
• MBPS — Megabits per second
• UCACCORD — UC All Campus Collaboration on Outreach and Dissemination
• PBX — Public Branch Exchange
• AK — Adenylate Kinase
• AWACS — Airborne Warning And Control System
• DOS — United States Department of State
• ARMS — Amplification Refractory Mutation
• CDT — Cytolethal Distending Toxin
• LHV — lower heating value
• DFAD — Digital Feature Analysis Data (dee-fad)
• DTS — Digital Transmission Systems, Inc.
• BC — Breast Cancer
• NGI — Norwegian Geotechnical Institute
• JAMA — Journal of the American Medical Association
• CAD — Computer-Aided Design
• CHA — Congenital Hypoplastic Anemia
• ARCD — Acquired Renal Cystic Disease
• CIDS — Circular Intensity Differential Scattering
• CE — Caenorhabditis elegans
• DEMUX — Demultiplexer
• AASE — Airborne Arctic Stratospheric Expedition
• POS — Point of Service Plan
• AGC — atypical glandular cells
• CAH — Chronic Active Hepatitis
• QM — Qualification Model
• AMI — Active Microwave Instrument
• HALLIP — Heterogeneous and Liquid Phase Processes (EUROTRAC)
• CINO3 — chlorine nitrate
• EIA — Extended Interaction Amplifier
• NRL — Naval Research Laboratory
• SIB — Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
• RM — Radiation Monitor
• GHZ — Gigahertz
• AAO — Age At Onset
• QRSL — quick-reaction space laboratory
• USGS — United States Geological Survey (DOI)
• NOX — Nitrogen Oxide
• LH — Labor-Hour
• ADRV — Adult Diarrhea Rotavirus
• ADPLD — Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Liver Disease
• STC — Science and Technology Center

• CLH — Cutaneous Lymphoid Hyperplasia
• WMO — World Meteorological Organization (ICSU)
• ARISTOTELES — Applications and Research Involving Space Technologies Observing the Earth's Field from Low Earth Orbiting Satellite
• ACE — Aerosol Characterization Experiment
• LBNL — Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (US)
• ABLE — Atmospheric Boundary Layer Experiment
• ISU — International Space University
• ABD — Actin Binding Domain
• AAOE — Airborne Antarctic Ozone Experiment
• DUART — Dual Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
• ADVAMED — Advanced Medical Technology Association
• BMFT — Bundesministerium für Forschung und Technologie (Germany)
• ASM — American Society for Microbiology
• AAU — Acute Anterior Uveitis
• OSHA — Occupational Safety and Health Act (1970)
• CFS — Cancer Family Syndrome
• AE — Adverse Event
• ACMNPV — Autographa Californica Multiple Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus
• CLD — combined lipase deficiency
• NDVI — Normalized Difference Vegetation Index
• AAH — Atypical Adenomatous Hyperplasia
• ISO 14155 — Current Widely Accepted Standard
• CME — Cystoid Macular Edema
• B-ISDN — Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network
• GOES — Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
• ABA — Agaricus Bisporus Agglutinin
• VDC — Voltage Direct Current
• TOMS — Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (satellite Instrument)
• RDP — Recreational Dive Planner
• AADC — Aromatic Acid Decarboxylase
• MDD — Medical Device Directive
• CIE — Chinese Institute of Electronics
• AEP — American Electric Power Company, Inc.
• PHS — Public Health Service (U.S.)
• KM — Kilometer (1,000 meters)
• DCS — Data Collection System (NOAA Polar Orbiting Satellites)
• MASER — microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation
• CGAP — Cancer Genome Anatomy Project
• AP — alkaline phosphatase
• CDI — Color Doppler Imaging
• MCC — Mission Control Center (JSC)
• AGE — Agarose Gel Electrophoresis
• BSI — British Standards Institution
• NAFTA — North American Free Trade Agreement
• EBCDIC — Extended Binary-Coded Decimal Interchange Code
• BCR — Breakpoint Cluster Region
• UCI — University of California, Irvine
• CREST — Cooperative Remote Sensing Science and Technology Center (Puerto Rico)
• MDT — Maximum Dive Time
• EUD — Exploration of the Universe Division

• ESL — English as a second language
• ASMT — American Society for Medical Technology
• MFCS — Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science
• MSLP — Mean Sea Level Pressure
• BBXRT — Broadband XRay Telescope
• AAU — Association of American Universities
• CGL — Chronic Granulocytic Leukemia
• TTA — Time to Apogee
• ESPI — European Space Policy Institute
• AMC — Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita
• CACD — Central Areolar Choroidal Dystrophy
• CMA — Chemical Manufacturers Association
• CISS — Chromosome In Situ Suppression
• ACF — Aberrant Crypt Focus
• NIC — National Ice Center
• AMIA — The American Medical Informatics Association
• UNCCD — United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
• TC — Telecommand
• AA — Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans
• AAD — Acidic Activation Domain
• FFW — Feet of Fresh Water
• ADNIV — Autosomal Dominant Neovascular Inflammatory Vitreoretinopathy
• CEF — chick embryo fibroblast
• CLP — Chlorine Loading Potential
• AACC — American Association for Clinical Chemists
• CDV — Canine Distemper Virus
• MDS — Medium Deep Survey
• AO — aldehyde oxidase
• AL — annulate lamellae
• NRS — Natural Reserve System
• CG — Celera Genomics Corporation
• ATD — ASPHYXIATING THORACIC DYSTROPHY
• ARA — American Rheumatism Association
• INT — Isaac Newton Telescope
• MTS — Microwave Temperature Sounder
• KBPS — kilobits per second
• ADNFLE — Autosomal Dominant Nocturnal Frontal Lobe Epilepsy
• FACS — Facilities Assignment and Control System
• CALAS — Cryptococcal Antigen Latex Agglutination System
• ICC — Instrument Control Center
• RID — Review Item Discrepancy
• ACA — Acrodermatitis Chronica Atrophicans
• EBI — European Bioinformatics Institutetute
• CFTC — Commodity Futures Trading Commission
• IDTF — Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility
• BAS — British Andrology Society
• HCHO — formaldehyde (also written as CH2O)
• HHS — Health and Human Services Department
• CIIP — Chronic Idiopathic Intestinal Pseudoobstruction
• TDT — Total Dive Time

• ETAC — Environmental Technical Applications Center (USAF)
• MOM — Mission Operations Manager
• UNCED — United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
• HCN — Hydrogen Cyanide Nitrogen
• ASQ — Alpha System Qualification
• ARHSP — Autosomal Recessive Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia
• PREST — Policy Research in Engineering, Science & Technology
• ARH — Autosomal Recessive Hypercholesterolemia
• SIMD — Single Instruction, Multiple Data (system) (processor)
• KJ — kilojoule (energy measure)
• CBCL — Child Behavior Checklist
• CZCS — Coastal Zone Color Scanner
• CDC — Centers for Disease Control
• ASV — Avian Sarcoma Virus
• OM — Optical Monitor
• AGEP — Acute Generalized Exanthematous Pustulosis
• CFH — Complement Factor H
• DHS — Data Handling Subsystem
• MERIS — Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer
• AB — Alcian Blue
• MOP — Mortgage Origination Program
• AGMK — African Green Monkey Kidney
• CIRA — COSPAR International Reference Atmosphere
• CCT — Computer Compatible Tape
• CMU — Concrete Masonry Unit
• AMDT — Adjusted Maximum Dive Time
• CBER — Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
• BAV — Bicuspid Aortic Valve
• K — Kelvin (absolute temperature scale)
• ADPEO — Autosomal Dominant Progressive External Ophthalmoplegia
• ERA — Employee Reimbursement Account
• ASA — Antarctic Support Associates
• AEV — Avian Erythroblastosis Virus
• RSS — root-sum-square
• AFGF — Acidic Fibroblast Growth Factor
• CCAM — Congenital Cystic Adenomatoid Malformation
• BD — binding domain
• JFET — junction field effect transistor
• GERB — Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget Experiment
• IASI — Improved Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer
• TGT — TDRSS Ground Terminal
• ALS — Amyotropic Lateral Sclerosis
• BAL — Bronchial Alveolar Lavage
• BFCNS — Basal forebrain cholinergic neurons
• CPI — characters per inch
• SEASTAR — Spacecraft flying SeaWIFS
• FIRST — Far Infrared Space Telescope
• AFLPS — Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphisms
• CMHC — Community Mental Health Center
• DYAX — Dyax Corp.

• BPI — bits per inch
• NWS — National Weather Service (formerly U.S. Weather Bureau)
• BDT — Binary Decision Tree
• BEI — Backscattered Electron Imaging (electron microscopy technique)
• EC — executive committee
• NCI — National Cancer Institute, USA
• BA — benzoic acid
• AEG — Acidic Epididymal Glycoprotein
• IEA — International Energy Agency (Paris)
• ADH — Autosomal Dominant Hypocalcemia
• ADC — Analogue to Digital Converter
• FWHM — Full Width, Half Maximum
• USLE — Universal Soil Loss Equation (erosion Model)
• ECOSOC — Economic and Social Council of the United Nations
• CKII — Casein Kinase II
• AE — Acrodermatitis Enteropathica
• CCE — Comprehensive Clinical Examination
• AFT — Acute Functional Tolerance
• FOM — Figure Of Merit
• ANN — Artificial Neural Network
• CPL — Cloud Physics Lidar
• WIPP — Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (for Nuclear Wastes)
• CB — cord blood
• CSI — Construction Specifications Institute
• CGH — Congenital Generalized Hypertrichosis
• CL — Cleft Lip
• AK — acetate kinase
• AACI — Association of American Cancer Institutes
• ITCZ — Intertropical Convergence Zone (of Seawater)
• ADPKD — Adult Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease
• CLA — Cutaneous Lymphocyte Antigen
• CDCR — Conceptual Design and Cost Review
• AI — Association Index
• ACDP — Ancient Conserved Domain Protein
• WHT — William Herschel Telescope
• AMTS — Advanced Moisture and Temperature Sounder
• ABC — Autism Behavior Checklist
• APHA — American Pharmaceutical Association
• KBPS — KiloBytes per second
• AER — Apical Ectodermal Ridge
• ALTS — Atypical Lipomatous Tumors
• SARSAT — Search and Rescue Satellite
• ADI — Autosomal Dominant Ichthyosis
• END — Equivalent Narcotic Depth
• MAGSAT — Magnetic Field Satellite
• BTD — Brightness Temperature Difference
• AIMS — Ancestry informative markers
• APA — Administrative Procedure Act
• MASSMEDIC — Massachusetts Medical Device Industry Council
• AARI — Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (Russian Federation)

• CD — Chemistry Division
• ADO — Allelic Drop Out
• SPADE — Stratospheric Photochemistry, Aerosols and Dynamics Expedition
• CAK — Cell Adhesion Kinase
• GCOS — Global Climate Observing System (WMO, IOC, UNEP, and ICSU)
• RPE — Relative Pointing Error
• STP — standard temperature and pressure (0° and 1 atm)
• AM — Acral Melanoma
• IRAS — Infrared Astronomy Satellite
• CIC — Circulating Immune Complex
• PPT — parts per trillion (1012)
• JAAME — Japanese Association for the Advancement of Medical Equipment
• ERS — ESA Remote Sensing Satellite
• JHIT — Joint Healthcare Information Technology Alliance
• CALGB — Cancer and Leukemia Group B
• AEL — After Egg Laying
• DANR — Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources
• DGVM — Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (GAIM)
• EASOE — European Arctic Stratospheric Ozone Experiment
• UTLS — Upper Troposphere/Lower Stratosphere
• CFCS — Chlorofluorocarbons
• MSS — Mission Support System
• AMSU-A — Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A AMTS
• TOD — Theoretical Ocean Depth
• NHC — United States National Hurricane Center
• ADG — Average Daily Gain
• AGU — American Geophysical Union
• GHTF — Global Harmonization Task Force
• CEI — Converting Enzyme Inhibitor
• DOF — Department of Finance
• JIM — Job Information Memorandum
• S/W — Software
• CHED — Congenital Heredity Endothelial Dystrophy
• ALSPP — Atmospheric and Land Surface Processes Project
• ACD — Avellino Corneal Dystrophy
• CAD — Cold Agglutinin Disease
• CIRRIS — Cryogenic Infrared Radiance Instrument for Shuttle
• CARDS — Comprehensive Aerological Reference Data Set
• RMS — Root-Mean-Square
• IMS — Information Management System (LTPP)
• APTTS — Activated Partial Thromboplastin Times
• AAP — amino acid permease
• APAG — Academic Policy Advisory Group
• CC — colorectal cancer
• HCL — Hydrogen Chloride
• AQCR — Air Quality Control Region (US) (environment)
• DO — Diving Officer
• SOM — Spacecraft Operations Manager
• GARP — Global Atmospheric Research Program (WMO, ICSU, and NOAA)
• BA — biliary atresia

• WFC — World Food Council
• BED — Bornholm Eye Disease
• AP — arterial pressure
• DLT — Digital Linear Tape
• CONACYT — Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia
• AGR — accessory gene regulator
• ALD — alcoholic liver diseases
• CCITT — Comit? Consultatif International T?l?graphique et T?l?phonique
• COARE — Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment (TOGA and WCRP)
• DOH — Department of Health (various countries)
• EAA — Experiment Aircraft Association
• CLRI — Central Leather Research Institute
• ACC — Australian Cancer Council
• AHRR — Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Repressor
• ALCL — Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma
• CBFB — Core Binding Factor Beta
• CC — corpus callosum
• CLP — Chromosome Length Polymorphism
• ASOS — Automated Surface Observing System
• DOY — Day of Year
• CBB — Common Bacterial Blight
• ORNL — Oak Ridge National Laboratory's
• DHHS — Department of Health and Human Services (U.S.)
• AGWP — Absolute Global Warming Potential
• GCC — Global Change Category
• AO — Amine Oxidase
• AGL — Acute Granulocytic Leukemia
• CAE — Childhood Absence Epilepsy
• ASPS — Alveolar Soft-Part Sarcoma
• FCCC — For the Framework Convention on Climate Change
• BIO — Biotechnology Industry Organization
• URD — User Requirements Document
• CAPS — Center for the Analysis and Prediction of Storms
• CCI — Canadian Circumpolar Institute
• EOSAT — Earth Observation Satellite Co.
• USGCRP — United States Global Change Research Program
• ERBE — Earth Radiation Budget Experiment
• APECED — Autoimmune Polyendocrinopathy-Candidiasis-Ectodermal Dystrophy
• BFNC — Benign Familial Neonatal Convulsions
• LIS — Lightning Imaging Sensor
• ISY — International Space Year (1992)
• AO — active oxygen
• ALADIN — Interactive sky atlas developed by CDS Strasbourg
• CD — cortical dysplasia
• AP — acute pancreatitis
• NSC — Norwegian Space Center
• CHPA — Consumer Healthcare Products Association
• LRA — Laser Retroreflector Array
• CCR — Complex Chromosome Rearrangement
• CMK — Cytidine Monophosphate Kinase

• EUV — Extreme Ultraviolet Vertical
• CRADA — Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (with National Institutes of Health)
• AII — Angiotensin II
• MCP — Multi Channel Plate
• NABR — National Association for Biomedical Research
• CA — Control area (EU) – The portion of the generation and transmission system controlled by a single transmission system operator. (See also TSO).
• ATM — Ataxia Telangiectasia Mutant
• EIR — Environmental Impact Report
• ALP — ATHEROGENIC LIPOPROTEIN PHENOTYPE
• CIASTA — Cooperative Institute for Atmospheric Sciences and Terrestrial Applications
• NO3 — Nitrate Radical
• ASCRS — American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery's
• AFOS — Automation of Field Operations and Services
• FAHS — Federation of American Health Systems
• ASAIO — American Society for Artificial Internal Organs
• DAAC — Distributed Active Archive Center
• CFTR — cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator protein
• MIP — Minimum Ionising Particle
• DOI — Department of the Interior (US)
• AMLL — Acute Mixed Lineage Leukemia
• ISTP — International Solar Terrestrial Physics
• SSD — Software Specification Document
• BEL — Bovine Embryonic Lung
• UNECE — United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
• NIEHS — National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (National Institutes of Health)
• IDL — Interactive Data Language
• ARVD — arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia
• CD — cytochalasin D
• AJ — adherens junction
• CEL — Carboxyl Ester Lipase
• AE — anion exchanger
• MAFI — Medical Alert Foundation International
• AY — Academic Year
• RSNA — The Radiological Society of North America, Inc.
• APKD — Adult Polycystic Kidney Disease
• HRI — High Resolution Imager
• SRD — Software Requirements Document
• SARS — Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
• BOL — Beginning of Life
• CKI — casein kinase I
• CM — cytoplasmic membrane
• NMC — National Meteorological Center (US)
• AH — adrenal hypoplasia
• DWS — Doppler Wind Sensor
• HIAA — Health Insurance Association of America
• MB — Millibar(s)
• AUL — Acute Undifferentiated Leukemia
• RSO — Resident Space Object
• GOS — Geomagnetic Observing System
• CCD — Classic Cleidocranial Dysplasia

• AFC — Amniotic Fluid Cells
• ASE — Absence Status Epilepticus
• AMOS — Automated Meteorological Observing System
• CES — Cat Eye Syndrome
• AZOOR — Acute Zonal Occult Outer Retinopathy
• LIMS — Limb Infrared Monitor of the Stratosphere
• ADALT — Advanced Radar Altimeter
• KEV — kilo electron volts
• OPEP — Organisation des Pays Exportateurs de Pétrole
• GSM — Ground Segment Manager
• AN — Aspergillus Nidulans
• EJ — Expansion Joint
• NCC — Network Control Center (GSFC)
• BCP — Basal Cell Papilloma
• ACLL — Atypical Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
• NRCS — Natural Resources Conservation Service
• CDGE — Constant Denaturant Gel Electrophoresis
• BDV — Borna Disease Virus
• BCNS — Basal Cell Nevus Syndrome
• II — Interdisciplinary Investigator
• SO2 — Sulfur Dioxide
• OTF — On-Target Flag
• OASH — Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health
• SVT — System Validation Test
• CG — cortical granule
• EVA — Extra-Vehicular Activity
• SMD — Science Mission Division
• FIFE — First ISLSCP Field Experiment
• DCIEM — Defence and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine
• BUREC — United States Bureau of Reclamation (government)
• CCMV — Cowpea Chlorotic Mottle Virus
• PDUFA — Prescription Drug User Fee Act (1992, U.S.)
• DSDP — Deep-Sea Drilling Project
• ATS — Arterial Tortuosity Syndrome
• ECC — Electrochemical Concentration Cell
• CBT — Cord Blood Transplant
• CCM — Cerebral Cavernous Malformation
• CU — University of Colorado at Boulder
• APLS — Acute Promyelocytic Leukemias
• HCIS — Health Care Information System
• IGBP — International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme
• EGSE — Electrical Ground Support Equipment
• CZMA — US Coastal Zone Management Act
• CLMA — Clinical Laboratory Management Association
• EMC — Environmental Modeling Center
• CIT — California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA)
• NASPY — North American Society of Electro Physiology and Pacing
• APRE — Acute Phase Response Element
• ADOM — Acid Deposition And Oxidant Model (air Pollution)
• BLCMD — BiLevel CoMmanD (DXS)

• CALLA — Common Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia Antigen
• CFA — colony forming assay
• CC — Colorectal Carcinoma
• ARM — Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (DOE program)
• SWHG — Social Welfare History Group
• CH — Centrosome hyperamplification
• CGN — Cerebellar Granule Neurons
• SAA — Solar Aspect Angle
• AD — Agar Dilution
• CAA — Chronic Aplastic Anemia
• CMS — Correctional Medical Services
• CEOS — Committee on Earth Observation Satellites
• TRMM — Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (US-Japan)
• CHR — complete hematologic response
• CE — ciliary epithelium
• ARP — Aldehyde Reactive Probe
• SID — Structure Identifier
• ACARS — Aeronautical Radio, Inc. Communication and Recording System
• CCRCC — Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma
• ALP — Automated Linkage Preprocessor
• AIL — Advance Intercross Line
• CE — cornified envelope
• EMEX — Equatorial Mesoscale Experiment
• GCRP — Global Change Research Program
• ACMNPV — Autographa Californica Multinucleocapsid Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus
• BEV — Baboon Endogenous Virus
• ADCC — Autosomal Dominant Congenital Cataract
• CBN — Cellular Blue Nevi
• BCAC — Basal Cell Adenocarcinoma
• AGI — Arabidopsis Genome Initiative
• ADRP — Autosomal Dominant Retinitis Pigmentosa
• AN — Anorexia Nervosa
• ARSS — Autonomous Replication Sequences
• CEFS — chicken embryonic fibroblasts
• ASFV — African Swine Fever Virus
• CBSCT — Cord Blood Stem Cell Transplantation
• CCK — Cancer Center Karolinska
• TA — Teaching Assistant
• ASEC — Applied Solar Energy Corporation
• ANL — The Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Ill
• AO — Airway obstruction
• AH — absorptive hypercalciuria
• NCEP — National Centers For Environmental Prediction (form. NMC; NWS Center)
• ICSU — International Council of Scientific Unions
• DEMA — Diving Equipment Manufacturers Association
• AC — Adenylyl Cyclase
• AMV — Avian Myeloblastosis Virus
• AF — activation function
• CART — Classification And Regression Tree (method In Statistical Analysis)
• HDF — Hierarchical Data Format

• ISEE — International Sun-Earth Explorer
• PD — Photo Diode
• ACEC — Area of Critical Environmental Concern
• CCFDN — Congenital cataracts facial dysmorphism neuropathy
• BBD — Benign Breast Disease
• CPSC — Consumer Product Safety Commission
• ED — Department of Education (US)
• AT — Arabidopsis thaliana
• ART — Assisted Reproductive Technology
• AVF — Abdominal Visceral Fat
• APL — Altered Peptide Ligand
• AP — Adenomatous POLYPs
• UNITAR — United Nations Institute for Training and Research
• AMSR-E — Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS
• NCAR — National Center for Atmospheric Research (US)
• AP — accelerated phase
• TOPEX — Ocean Topography Experiment
• EPACT — Energy Policy Act of 1992 (US)
• ADCLS — Advanced Data Collection and Location System
• GRID — Global Resource Information Database (UNEP)
• USPHS — United States Public Health Service
• CE — central element
• CAA — Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy
• CEES — Committee on Earth and Environmental Sciences
• ALT — Atypical Lipomatous Tumor
• LITE — Lidar In-space Technology Experiment
• JERS-1 — Japanese Earth Remote-sensing Satellite-1
• ALF — automated laser fluorescence
• ARJP — Autosomal recessive juvenile parkinsonism
• CCA — Cortical cerebellar atrophy
• INPAC — Institute for Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
• CFP — Cyan Fluorescent Protein
• AOS — Active Oxygen Species
• AE — Assemble Axial Elements
• CDIC — cytoplasmic dynein intermediate chain
• S/C — Spacecraft
• CTD — Conductivity, Temperature and Depth
• GTE — Global Tropospheric Experiment
• LEOP — Launch and Early Orbit Phase
• IV&V — independent verification and validation
• ADPSP — Autosomal Dominant Pure Spastic Paraplegia
• EOF — Empirical Orthogonal Function
• HIS — Health Information Systems
• BD — Bipolar Disorder
• NCSC — National Council of Senior Citizens
• DTS — Digital Termination Service
• IPEM — Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine
• DISEL — Diseno e Ingenieria de Systemas Electronicos
• ACMSU — Atmospheric Chemistry Modelling Support Unit
• CCF — Current Calibration File

• IWGDMGC — Interagency Working Group on Data Management for Global Change
• CAV — Coronary Artery Vasculopathy
• TOGA/COARE — Toga/Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment
• APPS — Acute Phase Proteins
• CG — Comparative Genometrics
• EESC — Equivalent Effective Stratospheric Chlorine
• AS — Alport syndrome
• CDA — congenital dyserythropoietic anemia
• CIN — Chronic Idiopathic Neutropenia
• AISA — Acquired Idiopathic Sideroblastic Anemia
• CAN — Chronic Allograft Nephropathy
• SDE — Software Development Environment
• ALH — Atypical Lobular Hyperplasia
• DAMTP — Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (Cambridge)
• BCTV — Beet Curly Top Virus
• SLIES — Stratospheric Limb Infrared Emission Spectrometer
• AAPC — Attenuated Adenomatous Polyposis Coli
• CLD — Congenital Lactase Deficiency
• CIBD — Chronic Inflammatory Bowel Disease
• LANDSAT — Land Remote-Sensing Satellite
• UNFCCC — United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
• COAPEC — Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Processes and European Climate
• CRO — Cathode-Ray Oscilloscope
• ESE — Earth Science Enterprise
• SNRI — Sierra Nevada Research Institute
• CSREES — Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service
• UCAR — University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
• CDTS — cytolethal distending toxins
• ALCLS — Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphomas
• SHEIR — Society of Higher Education & Industrial Research
• NDIU — Network Data Interface Unit
• APM — Affected Pedigree Member
• CES — Central Excitatory State
• ECMWF — European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
• CAR — Cell Adhesion Regulator
• BFIC — Benign Familial Infantile Convulsions
• ID — IDentifier
• CHR — Complete Hematologic Remission
• CAC — Coronary Artery Calcification
• AR — adaptive response
• CCGA — Coordinating Committee on Graduate Affairs
• CHH — Crustacean Hyperglycemic Hormone
• GGS — Global Geospace Science
• ARPKD — Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease
• HFMA — Healthcare Financial Management Association
• EAD — Equivalent Air Depth
• STA — Science and Technology Agency (Japan)
• AD — axiodistal
• DMAC — Diving Medical Advisory Committee
• AD — Alzheimer Disease

• IDS — Interdisciplinary Science
• ACNPV — Autographa Californica Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus
• APBSCT — Autologous Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplant
• TSE — Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies
• AHH — anosmia and hypogonadotropic hypogonadism
• ARF — Alternative Reading Frame
• TDRSS — Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System
• AAUC — Alumni Associations of the University of California
• CSIS — Centralized Storm Information System
• CANS — Central Auditory Nervous System
• EOSP — Earth Observing Scanner Polarimeter
• CH — chloral hydrate
• MT — Measured Time
• CNES — Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (France)
• AAR — abnormal anaphase resolution
• CCR — Complete Cytogenetic Response
• DMAP — Digital MAPping, charting and geodesy analysis program
• AGFS — Aviation Gridded Forecast System
• CRG — Council for Responsible Genetics
• UCSF — University of California, San Francisco
• AP — amyloid plaques
• APC — Ambulatory Payment Class
• RA — Regulatory Affairs
• DDE — Distributive Data Environment (McIDAS)
• GAC — Global Area Coverage
• AS — Asparagine Synthetase
• CA — Contagious agalactia
• IWG — Investigators Working Group
• CIIT — Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology
• BUFR — Binary Universal Form for the Representation (of data)
• FDLI — Food and Drug Law Institute
• IGAC — International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Program of the IGBP
• CI — Continuous Infusion
• PROM — Programmable Read Only Memory (chip)
• AI — Amelogenesis imperfecta
• DPSS — Data Processing Services Subsystem
• TOGA — Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere
• PSF — Point-Spread Function
• ALADIN — Atmospheric Laser Doppler Instrument
• ASF — African Swine Fever
• MOPH — Ministry of Public Health
• ADL — Acid Detergent Lignin
• GEMS — Global Environmental Monitoring System (UNEP)
• IRTS — Infrared Temperature Sounder
• PI — Principle Investigator
• AHL — Acyl Homoserine Lactone
• DIFAX — Digital Facsimile
• TM — Thematic Mapper (Landsat)
• JMA — Japan Meteorological Agency
• CEC — critical electrolyte concentration

• SZA — Solar Zenith Angle
• CTI — Charge Transfer Inefficiency
• DSC — Direct Satellite Communications
• CCR — Continuous Complete Remission
• AMOS — Air Force Maui Optical System
• NED — Network of Egghead Divers
• ACIS — Automated Cellular Imaging System
• BCCS — Basal Cell Carcinomas
• OBDH — On-Board Data Handler
• DIU — Detector Interface Unit (DXS)
• AEP — Alkaline Extracellular Protease
• AFLP — Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphic
• BAP — Bacterial Alkaline Phosphatase
• CM — complete mole
• RASS — radio-acoustic sounding system
• CS&S — Computer Sciences and Statistics (UW-MSN)
• CEP — Congenital Erythropoietic Porphyria
• CEF — Chicken embryonic fibroblast
• EOSDIS — Earth Observing System Data and Information System (sic FCW 9/97)
• CH — cystic hygroma
• OHTA — Office of Health Technology Assessment
• SEU — Structure and Evolution of the Universe
• SCPI — Standard Commands for Programmable Instruments
• ONR — Office of Naval Research (U.S.)
• FFM — Full Face Mask
• DMA — U.S. Defense Mapping Agency
• SPOT — Satellite Pour l'Observation de la Terre (France)
• AH — adenomatous hyperplasia
• MITRE — Massachusetts Institute of Technology Research Establishment
• ADH — Atypical Duct Hyperplasia
• BANF — Bilateral Acoustic Neurofibromatosis
• APC — Anterior polar cataract
• HYREX — Hydrological Radar Experiment
• CD-ROM — Compact Disk-Read Only Memory
• CDF — Cerebellar Deficient Folia
• AUP — Adjusted Unbiased Prediction
• UH — University of Heidelberg
• CFAS — Colonization factor antigens
• ARCI — Autosomal Recessive Congenital Ichthyosis
• MJD — Modified Julian Date
• EXOSAT — European X-Ray Observatory Satellite
• DCM — Dispersion Compensation Module
• LWIR — Long-Wavelength Infrared
• CDS — commonly deleted segment
• ICR — Indirect Cost Recovery
• CALS — College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (UW–Madison)
• ASMD — Anterior Segment Mesenchymal Dysgenesis
• MCP — Meteorological Communications Package
• CAMP — Childhood Asthma Management Program
• BAL — Biphenotypic Acute Leukemia

• DUD — duodenal ulcer disease
• MEDEC — Medical Devices Canada
• MTPPI — Medical Technology and Practice Patterns Institute
• GBPS — Gigabits per second
• CDC — Child Development Centre
• CEA — Collie Eye Anomaly
• SUNY — State Universityrsity of New York
• NH3 — Ammonia
• PSU — power supply unit
• CLAG — Cytoadherence Linked Asexual Gene
• EEC — European Economic Commission
• CLAES — Cryogenic Limb Array Etalon Spectrometer
• ACGM — Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting
• CH — Calponin homology
• CB — carotid body
• AMLR — Autologous Mixed Lymphocyte Reaction
• X-SAR — X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar
• MIAA — Medical Industry Association of Australia
• EOS — Earth Observing System (U.S.)
• CGH — Comparative Gene Hybridization
• CCS — clear cell sarcoma
• ANA — Autoantibody to Nuclear Antigen
• AGM — African green monkey
• ACCS — Acinar Cell Carcinomas
• AFG — Air Force Geophysics Laboratory
• CGAM — Centre for Global Atmospheric Modelling
• IES — Institute of Environmental Sciences
• MPIA — Max Planck Institut für Aeronomie (Germany)
• SEU — Single Event Upset
• ASHOE — Airborne Southern Hemisphere Ozone Experiment
• SMMR — Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer
• AMOG — Adhesion Molecule on Glia
• GLP — Good Laboratory Practice
• HIRS — High-resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder
• AI — Aromatase Inhibitor
• AEV — Avian Encephalomyelitis Virus
• CIV — Chilo Iridescent Virus
• BACT — Best Available Control Technology
• SAST — Science Analysis Software Team
• ARIC — Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities
• HIBCC — Health Industry Business Communications Council
• DSMA — Division of Small Manufacturers Assistance
• CAH — Congenital Adrenal Hypoplasia
• VOS — Voluntary Observing Ship
• AEA — Atomic Energy Authority
• CRREL — Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (COE)
• HCFCS — Hydrochlorofluorocarbons
• ECRI — Emergency Care Research Institute
• AIBS — American Institute of Biological Sciences
• MF/MAGNOLIA — Magnetic Field Experiment

• SAFIRE — Spectroscopy of the Atmosphere Using Far-Infrared Emission
• DES — Divers Environmental Survey
• CAMS — Cell Adhesion Molecules
• CBI — Confederation of British Industries
• JCAHO — Joint Committee on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
• NAREGI — National Research Grid Initiative
• MDDI — Medical Device and Diagnostics Industry
• DPV — Diver Propulsion Vehicle
• ACOS — Attitude and Orbit Control System
• DLCF — Data Link Control Field
• HIMSS — Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
• CAF — Conotruncal Anomaly Face
• ALC — Anaplastic Large Cell
• WHOI — Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• ADAAC — Affiliated Distributed Active Archive Center
• ORATOS — Orbit and Attitude Operating System
• EUMETSAT — European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites
• PS/2 — Personal System/2 (Microsoft)
• SDC — Swiss Development Corporation
• QAO — Quality Assurance Office
• BB — Borrelia burgdorferi
• CMD — Cartilage Matrix Deficiency
• CLL — Chronic Lymphoid Leukaemia
• MOS-1 — Marine Observation Satellite (Japan)
• AIEOP — Associazione Italiana Ematologia Oncologia Pediatrica
• CI — Cerebral Infarction
• ATMOS — Atmospheric Trace Molecules Observed by Spectroscopy
• DIN — Deutsches Institut fuer Normung
• HMMR — High-resolution Multifrequency Microwave Radiometer
• UCRP — University of California Retirement Plan
• CSA — Canadian Standards Association (like UL)
• AWI — Alfred Wegener Institute
• AIM — Acute Infectious Mononucleosis
• BCC — Burkholderia Cepacia Complex
• MOZIAC — Measurement of Ozone on Airbus in-service Aircraft
• POES — Polar-Orbiting Environmental Satellite
• MIR — Management Information Report
• AMAD — Activity Median Aerodynamic Diameter
• CWB — Central Weather Bureau (Taiwan)
• CAA — California Alumni Association
• CH — congenital hypothyroidism
• AICR — American Institute for Cancer Research
• CALL — Common Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
• LEFI — Local Electric Field Instrument
• AES — Atmospheric Environment Service (Canada)
• ALSC — Adirondack Lake Survey Corporation
• AOT — Adenomatoid Odontogenic Tumour
• CESD — Cholesterol Ester Storage Disease
• CRU — Climate Research Unit (East Anglia)
• AGT — average generation time

• ORS — Outer root sheath
• AOML — Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (Miami, Florida) (ERL)
• ASE — Air-Sea Exchange experiment (EUROTRAC)
• NHGRI — National Human Genome Research Institute
• NNSA — National Nuclear Security Administration
• LIGG — Lanzhou Institute of Glaciology and Geocryology
• CAD — Coronary Atherosclerotic Disease
• ATR — Acid Tolerance Response
• ASPS — Affected Sibling Pairs
• NISTEP — National Institute of Science and Technology Policy
• AO — announcement of opportunity
• MRT — Mission Readiness Test
• CENELEC — European Committee for Electromechanical Standardisation
• CITRIS — Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society
• ITE — Institute for Terrestrial Ecology
• ASCT — Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation
• PPR — problems with the Photopolarimeter Radiometer
• FGP — Faculty Grants Program
• EUDRA — European Drug Regulatory Authorities Network
• CDOS — Customer Data and Operations System
• HALOE — Halogen Occultation Experiment
• BODC — British Oceanographic Data Centre
• EDIS — Environmental Data and Information Service
• LRDP — Long Range Development Plan
• J.S.D. — Doctor of the Science of Law
• ACD — Aeronautical Charting Division (NOS)
• CHD — Congenital Heart Defect
• CBV — Coxsackie B Viruses
• AN — accessory nuclei
• ANNS — Artificial Neural Networks
• ATF — Aphid Transmission Factor
• APB — Alternative Pyrimidine Biosynthetic
• CAPD — Chronic Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis
• ADH — Autosomal Dominant Hypercholesterolemia
• CCE — Charge Collection Efficiency
• AWD — abnormal wing discs
• UNEX — University Extension
• IMAU — Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht
• EADS — Engineering and Data Analysis System
• AS — Active sleep
• AD — Arginine Deiminase
• CD — Campomelic dysplasia
• FTS — File Transfer System
• GTCE — Global Tropospheric Chemistry Experiment
• CLG — Certified Local Government
• CFPS — culture filtrate proteins
• INDA — Investigational New Drug Application
• SSMS — Society for Sexual Medicine of Slovenia
• ABCS — Active Bacterial Core Surveillance
• AR — apoptotic rate

• DPR — Dual Precipitation Radar
• MKS — meter-kilogram-second (measurement system; replaced by SI) (preferred over "MKS")
• CIAP — Climatic Impact Assessment Program
• CAR — Constitutive Androstane Receptor
• ASH — American Society of Hematology's
• SODAR — Sound Detection And Ranging (meteorological Instrument)
• CNR — Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italy)
• CDR — Complementary determining regions
• AMANDA — Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array
• NCDC — National Climatic Data Center
• CO-I — Co-Investigator
• IAPM — International Association of Medical Prosthesis Manufacturers
• APLP — Amplified Product Length Polymorphism
• PROPAC — Prospective Payment Assessment Commission
• RA — Radar Altimeter (R/A Preferred)
• APAR — Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation
• CDLS — Cornelia De Lange Syndrome
• AS — Angelman Syndrome
• PXP — XMM Project Payload
• MTBE — Methyl Tert-butyl Ether
• BCP — Basic Calcium Phosphate
• BAERS — Brainstem Auditory Evoked Responses
• CB — Ciliary Body
• AOIPS — Atmospheric and Oceanographic Information Processing System
• GOME — Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment
• CFC — Continuous-Flow Centrifugation
• BARC — Beltsville Agricultural Research Center
• CCO — Cytochrome C Oxidase
• BCE — Bovine Capillary Endothelial
• EIGA — European Industrial Gases Association
• PSSM — Polish Society for Sexual Medicine
• CDF — Cation Diffusion Facilitator
• ATLAS — ACTIVITIES Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science
• AI — Apoptosis Index
• AMSU — Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit
• NAHIT — National Alliance for Health Information Technology
• BAUD — one bit per second
• AROA — Autosomal Recessive Ocular Albinism
• AOT — Aerosol Optical Thickness
• CITA — Center for IT Accommodation (GSA)
• TUV — Technische Uberwachungs-Vereine
• AODC — Association of Offshore Diving Contractors
• BDC — Bellini Duct Carcinoma
• AOD — Autoimmune Ovarian Dysgenesis
• AH — aniline hydrochloride
• BC — breast carcinoma
• NIR — Near Infrared
• EDAC — Error Detection And Correction
• AMIP — Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project
• BITNET — Because It's Time Network

• CEO — Centre for Earth Observation
• ABI — Advanced Baseline Imager (GOES)
• AAL — Alternaria Alternata Lycopersici
• ALL — Acute Lymphatic Leukemia
• NWP — Numerical Weather Prediction
• JCCT — Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (US-China)
• EXPRESSO — Experiment for Regional Sources and Sinks of Oxidants
• BEF — Bromine Efficiency Factor
• CFC — Chloroflourocarbon
• NCBI — National Center for Biotechnology Information
• BDA — Bile Duct Adenoma
• AMV — Avian Myoblastosis Virus
• QSR — Quality System Regulation
• RNA — Ribose Nucleic Acid
• AE — Axial Element
• ARNT — Ah Receptor Nuclear Translocator
• GFDL — Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (NOAA US)
• CTP — Cloud-Top Pressure
• ARVC — arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy
• SERC — Science and Engineering Research Council
• CSG — Council of State Governments
• DOA — Department of Administration (US)
• CHI — California Healthcare Institute
• ALVS — Avian Leukosis Viruses
• ADC — Astronomical Data Center
• MIP — Mission Implementation Plan
• CONUS — Continental U.S.
• TERI — Tata Energy Research Institute
• AMSU — Advanced Microwave Sounder Unit (EOS)
• WMREI — Waste Management Research and Education Institute
• SDSS — Sloan Digital Sky Survey
• MESSR — Multispectral Electronic Self-Scanning Radiometer
• BRG — Bureau des Ressources Génétiques
• ALL — acute lymphoblastic leukosis
• AIRS — Acute Insulin Responses
• UCSB — University Of California Santa Barbara
• MOUT — Message Out
• ICD-9-CM — International Classification of Diseases, 9th Edition
• DU — Dobson Unit
• BISA — Belgium Institute for Space Aeronomy (Belgium)
• CMG — Computer Measurement Group
• DIN — Deutsches Institut fur Normung
• UPC — Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
• NAT — Nitric Acid Trihydrate (polar Stratosphere Cloud Aerosol)
• CF — culture filtrate
• CPC — Climate Prediction Center (NWS Center)
• FNRS — Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (Belgium)
• NEXRAD — Next-Generation Weather Radar (NWS)
• ACDS — Astronomical Catalogues Database Subsystem
• AIPS — Astronomical Image Processing System

• AMTIC — Ambient Monitoring Technology Information Center
• AMLR — Autologous Mixed Lymphocyte Response
• AM — Admixture Mapping
• GLOSS — Global Sea Level Observing System (of IOC)
• TMPSU — Telescope Module Power Supply Unit
• CH — contact hypersensitivity
• AHF — Altered Hepatic Foci
• AREP — Assembly Representation
• EE — End-to-End
• NGDC — National Geophysical Data Center (NOAA)
• DLL — Dynamic Link Libraries
• D/C — diarrhea constipation
• AD — After Disease
• CCV — Channel Catfish Virus
• SCATT — SCATTerometer
• ANLL — Acute Nonlymphoid Leukemia
• RT — Real Time (R/T Preferred)
• PSS — Procedures, Specifications and Standards
• ORA — FDA's Office of Regulatory Affairs
• CISH — Chromosome in Situ Hybridisation
• HRSA — U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration
• BAC — Bovine Artificial Chromosome
• CCBS — Calcium Channel Blockers
• BDMV — Bean Dwarf Mosaic Virus
• MAESA — Measurements for Assessing the Effects of Stratospheric Aircraft
• SOAPEX — Southern Ocean Atmospheric Photochemistry EXperiment
• SNPA — Subnetwork Point of Attachment
• MEPED — medium energy proton and electron detector
• AMPS — Antarctic Mesoscale Prediction System
• CE — conventional electrophoresis
• ISSC — International Social Science Council
• ARS — Autonomous Replication Sequence
• DXS — Diffuse X-Ray Spectrometer
• NUST — National University of Science and Technology
• CARA — Center for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica
• ISTAHC — International Society of Technology Assessment in Health Care
• XSCS — XMM MOC Control System
• ABC — aneurysmal bone cyst
• CA — cerebellar atrophy
• ATD — Autoimmune Thyroid Disease
• APL — Acute Progranulocytic Leukemia
• UCAP — University Committee on Academic Personnel
• ARC — Arctic Radiation and Chemistry experiment
• WEFAX — Weather Facsimile
• ACASS — Alberta Congenital Anomalies Surveillance System
• PNNL — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (DOE) (US)
• CPEC — California Postsecondary Education Commission
• SIGMA — High Energy X-ray Instrument
• CEC — Commission of the European Communities ;
• CMA — China Meteorological Administration

• CA — Cerebellar Ataxia
• WASC — Western Association of Schools and Colleges
• AK — Arginine kinase
• ADC — Atlantic Data Coverage (Meteosat)
• CSG — Clock Sequence Generator
• IOLM — International Organization of Legal Metrology
• ADLTE — Autosomal Dominant Lateral Temporal Epilepsy
• TOMS — Transactions On Mathematical Software
• MPI — Max Planck Institut (Germany)
• BOREAS — Boreal Ecosystem Atmosphere Study
• LLC — Limited Liability Partnership
• CCR — Cost-Charge Ratio
• IMB — Investigator of Micro-Biosphere
• ARPS — Advanced Regional Prediction System
• SNR — Super Nova Remnant
• IUCRP — Industry University Cooperative Research Program
• CNA — Comisión Nacional del Agua (Mexico)
• AVS — Aortic Valve Stenosis
• APC — Academic Planning Council
• CIRAC — Canadian Institute for Research in Atmospheric Chemistry
• POEM — Polar-Orbiting Earth Mission (ESA)
• RTNEPH — real-time nephanalysis
• HIB — Health Insurance Bureau (Japan)
• ICAIR — International Centre for Antarctic Information and Research
• NREL — National Renewable Energy Laboratory (formerly SERI)
• DP — dermal papilla
• APC — Adenomatosis Polyposis Coli
• MPIC — Max Planck Institut für Chemie (Germany)
• OSCAR — Online Services for Curriculum and Articulation Review
• DLR — Deutsche Forschungsanstalt fur Luft-und Raumfahrt (Germany)
• CCLRC — Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (UK)
• NLN — National League for Nursing
• AIEE — American Institute for Electrical Engineers
• GEDEX — Greenhouse Effect Detection Experiment
• IPOC — International Partner Operations Center
• ASDS — Atrial Septal Defects
• CMCS — cultured mast cells
• AHF — Attitude History File
• CM — cutaneous melanoma
• AAU — Association of African Universities
• CF — Culture fluid
• ATF — anti-activating transcription factor
• AI — allelic imbalance
• PDA — Parenteral Drug Association
• AFA — Ankyloblepharon Filiforme Adnatum
• STAR — Satellite for Telecommunication Applications and Research
• RVAU — Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University
• BF — Bacteroides Fragilis
• AMLS — Acute Myelogenous Leukemias
• CA — Colorectal Adenoma

• PPRC — Physician Payment Review Commission
• AVHRR GAC — AVHRR Global Area Coverage
• TIROS — Television and Infrared Observation Satellite
• PDR — Physician’s Desk Reference
• SAFISY — Space Agency Forum on the International Space Year (1992)
• COR — Committee on Research
• CITE — Chemical Instrument Test and Evaluation (NASA GTE)
• ACSYS — Arctic Climate System Study (WCRP)
• CHP — Combined heat and power
• AOS — Allene Oxide Synthase
• CI — Cytoplasmic incompatibility
• F&A — Facilities and Administrative
• CBB — Coomassie Brilliant Blue
• CC — congenital cataract
• ARRP — Autosomal Recessive Retinitis Pigmentosa
• CAPPI — Constant Altitude Plan Position Indicator
• SERI — Solar Energy Research Institute
• QSO — Quasar|Quasi-Stellar Object
• AE — Attaching and effacing
• OEC — Olfactory Ensheathing Cell
• DSB — Direct Sounding Broadcast
• CAA — Congenital Aural Atresia
• CHL — Classic Hodgkin Lymphoma
• NIGMS — National Institute Of General Medical Sciences (NIH)
• DBU — Digital Bus Unit
• NSCAT — Nasa Scatterometer Project
• TWIP — Terminal Weather Information for Pilots
• LSPDF — Life Science Payload Development Facility
• FASTEX — Fronts and Atlantic Storm-Track EXperiment
• APMI — American Powder Metallurgy Institute
• SORI — Subcommittee on Research Initiatives
• HCMM/AEM-1 — Heat Capacity Mapping Mission/Applications Explorer Mission
• EML — Environmental Measurements Laboratory (DOE)
• DEED — Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development
• CGC — Climate and Global Change
• ASS — Arginosuccinate Synthetase
• STE — Stratosphere-Troposphere Exchange
• USFS — United States Forest Service
• BACS — bacterial artificial chromosomes
• SEA — Slovak Energy Agency
• NAAQS — National Ambient Air Quality Standards (US)
• ASF — Abdominal Subcutaneous Fat
• GOSTA — Global Ocean Surface Temperature Atlas
• INTEGRAL — International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory
• UAF — University of Alaska Fairbanks
• V&V — Validation & Verification
• RUC — Roskilde University Center
• ASSIST — Articulation System Stimulating Interinstitutional Student Transfer
• HAPEX — Hydrological Atmospheric Pilot Experiment
• EBW — Electron Beam Welding

• VIS — Visible
• ABS — Advanced Baseline Sounder
• CM — contrast media
• AFES — Alternative Fluorocarbons Environmental Acceptability Study
• CGAT — Chromaffin Granule Amine Transporter
• GCE — Ground-base Cloud Experiment (EUROTRAC)
• GPSDR — Global Positioning System Demonstration Receiver
• RADARSAT — Radar Satellite
• CERES — Clouds and Earth's Radiant Energy System
• CESH — Comparative Expressed Sequence Hybridization
• ARE — Androgen Response Elements
• METEOSAT — Geosynchronous Meteorology Satellite (ESA)
• ACOE — Army Corps of Engineers
• CSES — Center for the Study of Earth from Space (Univ of Colorado)
• AIED — Aland Island Eye Disease
• XMM — X-ray Multi Mirror Mission
• MCIDAS — Man-computer Interactive Data Access System
• UCAF — University Committee on Academic Freedom
• OAC — Orbital Activation and Checkout
• PRO — Professional Review Organization
• BCS — Broadband Cable System (UW)
• IRI — International Research Institute for Climate Prediction
• PMEL — Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (NOAA and ERL)
• EBC — Executive Budget Committee
• MODIS-T — Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer-Tilt
• ASD — Aspartate Semialdehyde Dehydrogenase
• BC — Brain Cancer
• ALL — Acute Lymphoblastic
• NESHAP — National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants
• HST — Hubble Space Telescope
• MEDGV — Germany's Medical Equipment Safety Law
• TAE — Transportable Applications Executive (a computer user interface)
• NH — Northern Hemisphere
• CFC — GM-colony forming cell
• UCSD — University of California, San Diego (La Jolla, California)
• DCA — Division of Community Assistance
• CCR — Carbon Catabolite Repression
• CDM — Chemically Defined Medium
• CFSS — common fragile sites
• ASG — Accessory Sex Glands
• GPCP — Global Precipitation Climatology Project
• CIFAR — Cooperative Institute for Arctic Research
• DRG — Diagnosis-Related Groups
• PPQA — Pre-Product Quality Assurance
• SWIRLS — Stratospheric Wind Infrared Limb Sounder
• ARA — AppleTalk Remote Access
• AER — Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
• CFF — Cystic Fibrosis Factor
• AST — Antibiotic Sensitivity Testing
• MISR — Multi-angle Imaging Spectro-Radiometer (EOS)

• AHA — Autoimmune Haemolytic Anaemia
• GFLOPS — Billions of Floating Point Instructions per Second
• COADS — Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set
• ASCP — American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
• SPARC — Stratospheric Processes and their Role In Climate Change
• AEEC — attaching and effacing Escherichia coli
• INPE — Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (Brazil)
• OST — Office of Science and Technology
• ANT — Attention Network Test
• CD — Cowden Disease
• MLS — Microwave Limb Sounder (EOS)
• AF — Archaeoglobus Fulgidus
• MH — Message Handling
• CDS — Correlated Double Sampler
• BBC — Bilateral Breast Cancer
• CF — colony formation
• AINA — Arctic Institute of North America
• UARS — Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (NASA)
• AMRIR — Advanced Medium Resolution Imaging Radiometer
• AS — alternative splicing
• AM — Achillea Millefolium
• BFF — Bovine Follicular Fluid
• CCR — Complete Cytogenetic Remission
• ALL — acute lymphoblastic lymphoma
• PPS — XMM Pipeline Processing Subsystem
• CBPP — Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia
• DBRA — Division of Biometry and Risk Assessment
• BCCP — Biotin Carboxyl Carrier Protein
• DLESE — The Digital Library for Earth System Education
• ERD — Ecological Research Division (DOE and OHER)
• CM — Capillary malformation
• DEM — Digital Electronics Module
• UCLA — University of California, Los Angeles
• AP — Apple Proliferation
• SPOT — Systeme Pour L'Observation De La Terre (France)
• IEOS — International Earth Observing System
• AT — The Ataxia Teleangiectasia
• AWIPS-90 — Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System for the 90's
• NNF — National Nanofabrication Facility
• CIRTL — Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning
• CIRES — Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (US)
• CGKD — Complex Glycerol Kinase Deficiency
• CIRRUS — Cloud InfraRed Radiometer for UnESS
• MEI — Medical Economic Index
• CFAG — cystic fibrosis antigen
• CER — Common Eliminated Region
• CC — Cumulus cells
• NIWA — National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, New Zealand
• AIMBE — American Insitute for Medical and Biological Engineering
• GENEMIS — Generation of European Emission Data (EUROTRAC)

• IPEI — Ionospheric Plasma and Electrodynamics Instrument
• MOSS — Market-Oriented Sector Selective
• DMIC — Deputy Meteorologist-In-Charge (NWS)
• HOCL — Hypochlorous Acid
• IPC — Imaging Proportional Counter
• EODRS — Earth observation data retrieval system
• CDC — Cell Division Control
• ASICS — Acid Sensing Ion Channels
• LED — Low Energy Detector
• TIROS — Television InfraRed Observation Satellite (POES)
• CC — Carney complex
• TIRS — Thermal Infrared Scanner
• APKC — atypical protein kinase C
• SPAC — State Pharmaceutical Administration of China
• TOGA — Tropical Ocean and Global Atmosphere Program
• CNSI — California NanoSystems Institute
• APVS — Absent Pulmonary Valve Syndrome
• MOTIE — Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy (Korea)
• EINSTEIN — Einstein Observatory
• KOPRI — Korea Polar Research Institute
• JGOFS — Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (IGBP programme)
• HOX — odd hydrogen (OH and H2O2)
• ARS — Antigen recognition sites
• CTD — Conductivity-Temperature-Depth
• DNR — Department of Natural Resources
• DCTD — Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis
• AOCS — Attitude and Orbit Control and Measurement Subsystem
• CBDMP — California Birth Defects Monitoring Program
• CCD — Calcite Compensation Depth
• AS — Acid Succinate
• URSI — Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale
• CL — Crithidia luciliae
• AI — apoptotic index
• OAD — Orbit and Attitude Division
• ITTP — Information Technology and Telecommunication Policy
• FDAMA — FDA Modernization Act of 1997
• OCCM — Ocean Carbon Cycle Model
• CFRI — Central Fuel Research Institute (India)
• PCF — Pounds per cubic foot
• TGMI — Tennessee Government Management Institute
• NOY — total active nitrogen
• NAVSTAR — Navigation Satellite Timing & Ranging
• RGS — Reflection Grating Spectrometer
• MTDC — Modified Total Direct Costs
• ACIS — ACademic Information Services (IBM)
• NERI — National Environmental Research Institute
• SPSO — Science Processing Support Office
• CLIVAR — Climate Variability and Predictability program
• NDSTC — Naval Dive and Salvage Training Center
• ARD — Adult Refsum Disease

• CMD — Congenital Myotonic Dystrophy
• UOEAP — Universitywide Office of the Education Abroad Program
• MENARG — Middle East and North Africa Research Group
• JEM-X — Joint European Monitor for X-rays
• TOASTE — Transport of Ozone and Stratosphere Troposphere Exchange
• RNLI — Royal National Lifeboat Institution
• ENSO — El Niño/Southern Oscillation
• FDH — Fixed Dynamical Heating
• ATC — Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer
• AGSP — Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme
• AI — Adiposity Index
• NAGRA — Native American Graves Repatriation Act
• DNAG — Decade of North American Geology
• CD — Canavan disease
• IMDA — Independent Medical Distributors Association
• JIF — Japan-Indonesia Science and Technology Forum
• DAN — Diver’s Alert Network
• SCOR — Scientific Committee for Oceanographic Research Seasat Sea Satellite
• CI — Chromosome Index
• ADCAS — Autosomal Dominant Cerebellar Ataxias
• AS — Anthranilate Synthase
• CDD — Cytidine Deaminase
• DNH — Division of Natural Heritage
• DIS — Data and Information Systems (EOS and IGBP)
• IRICP — International Research Institute for Climate Prediction
• BDGP — Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project
• CRIS — Cross-track Infrared Sounder
• ARTS — Assisted Reproductive Technologies
• AD — Affecting Disease
• APC — Ateles Paniscus Chamek
• CID — Combined Immune Deficiency
• AFM — Array File Maker
• CNRM — Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques(France)
• S&T — Directorate for Science and Technology
• HEAO-1 — NASA X-Ray Astronomy Mission
• CFA — Cyclopropane fatty acids
• SESAME — Second European Stratospheric Arctic and Middle Latitude Experiment
• ASADA — Automated Smoke/Aerosol Detection Algorithm
• ECCLS — European Committee on Clinical Laboratory Standards
• CAA — Cationic Amino Acid
• CAMS — Calibrated Airborne Multispectral Scanner
• CBAH — Conjugated Bile Acid Hydrolase
• POEMS — Positron Electron Magnetic Spectrometer
• ATDD — Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Division
• AAM — Atmospheric Angular Momentum
• CCS — Chromatin Conformational State
• CHLC — Cooperative Human Linkage Center
• VAN — Value-Added Network
• HIDA — Health Industry Distributors Association
• HIRDLS — HIgh-Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder (EOS)

• QBO — Quasi-biennial Oscillation (atm.)
• ARNSHL — Autosomal Recessive Nonsyndromic Hearing Loss
• COARE — Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Research Experiment (TOGA)
• MRI — Meteorlogical Research Institute (Japan)
• MSU — Memphis State University
• ADO — Autosomal Dominant Osteopetrosis
• CL — cystic lymphangioma
• TMR — TOPEX Microwave Radiometer (EOS)
• ACC — Atlantic Climate Change
• CL — chromosome loss
• UHV — Ultra-high Vacuum
• CET — Central England Temperature
• OGIST — Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology
• CGCP — Canadian Global Change Program
• CM — Cardiac Myxoma
• JET-X — Joint European Telescope for X-ray astronomy
• EMAE — EPIC MOS Analogue Electronics
• STSCI — Space Telescope Science Institute
• AVHRR — Advanced Very High-Resolution Radiometer
• CD — circular dichroic
• FM — Frequency Modulator
• NASSH — North American Society for Sport History
• SSSM — Scandinavian Society for Sexual Medicine
• CD — Conjugated dienes
• HSQB — Health Standard and Quality Bureau
• CAPE — Convection and Precipitation/Electrification Experiment (STORM)
• UTC — Universal Time Coordinate
• ADU — Analogue to Digital Unit
• APP — Abeta precursor protein
• INSA — Institut National des Sciences Appliques (France)
• AS — Alagille Syndrome
• ANL — Acute Nonlymphocytic Leukemia
• QSIT — Quality System Inspection Technique
• AK — Adenosine Kinase
• CLD — Cholestatic Liver Disease
• AHCS — Anterior Horn Cells
• TOO — Target Of Opportunity
• ESSHC — European Social Science History Conference
• OCTS — Japanese Ocean Color Temperature Scanner
• EFPIA — European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations
• HDIF — Health Care Data Interchange Format
• LERTS — Laboratoire d'Etudes et de Recherches en TeledetectionSpatiale (France)
• APH — Attitude Pointing History
• AST — Arterial Spin Tagging
• BCM — Blue Cone Monochromacy
• ASP — The Abnormal Spindle Protein
• WOCE — World Ocean Circulation Experiment
• CEC — Chick Embryo Cells
• PMR — Pressure Modulator Radiometer
• 2MASS — Two-Micron All-Sky Survey

• NIGEC — National Institute for Global Environmental Change
• UCPB — University Committee on Planning and Budget
• CAMEX — CMOS Amplifier and Multiplexing Chip
• CBL — Cord Blood Lymphocytes
• CM — Centimetre
• IPAR — Intercepted Photosynthetically Active Radiation
• EPCU — EPIC pn Camera Head Unit
• CDFG — California Department of Fish and Game's
• AJ — Ashkenazi Jewish
• UCEP — University Committee on Educational Policy
• AE — Atmosphere Explorer
• WETNET — Network for Distribution and Joint Analysis of SSM/I Data (MSFC)
• QE — Quantum Efficiency
• CC — Cell Counts
• HRPT — High Resolution Picture Transmission
• EBTC — Edison BioTechnology Center
• GTS — Global Telecommunications System (WMO and
• LORAN — Long Range Navigational System
• CEL — Conserved Effector Locus
• AHSRL — Arctic High Spectral Resolution Lidar
• UEXT — University Extension
• ESDD — Earth Science Data Directory
• ERSC — Environmental Remote Sensing Center (IES)
• ALEXI — Atmospheric Land EXchange Inversion (CIMSS)
• DE — Detector Electronics (DXS)
• RPOS — Re-planned Preferred Observation Schedule
• NMAM — NIOSH Manual of Analytical Methods
• ACI — Alloy Casting Institute
• NAD — Nitric Acid Dihydrate
• SUSIM — Solar Ultraviolet Spectral Irradiance Monitor
• SARA — Superfund Amendment And Reauthorization Act
• APSU — Austin Peay State University
• CCA — Current Cost Accounting
• IGAP — International Global Aerosol Program
• AF — ameloblastic fibroma
• AH — anterior horn
• APE — Airborne Polar Experiment
• CAPE — Caffeic Acid Phenethyl Ester
• BAF — Bvg accessory factor
• AA — Acrylonitrile And Acrylamide
• UCB — University of California, Berkeley
• ATLID — Atmospheric LIDAR
• SSALT — Solid-State radar Altimeter
• EMDM — European Medical Device Manufacturer
• MCR — Main Control Room
• BCR — B Cell Receptor
• LL.M. — Master of Laws degree
• ALL — Acute Lymphocytic
• CECS — cerebral endothelial cells
• SST — Sea surface temperature

• NMAI — National Museum of the American Indian
• INPA — Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia (Brazil)
• DLS — Dynamic Limb Sounder
• CEC — Commission of European Communities (see EC, EEC)
• CMDL — Climate Monitoring And Diagnostics Laboratory (NOAA Boulder
• CD — Congenital Defects
• WPD — War Plans Division
• BASE-A — Biomass burning Airborne and Spaceborne Experiment-Amazonia
• AION — Anterior Ischaemic Optic Neuropathy
• ODF — Observation Data File
• AED — Anhidrotic ectodermal dysplasia
• JEOS — Japanese Earth Observing Satellite
• ARGOS — Argos Data Collection and Location System (France)
• MEDSUN — Medical Device Surveillance Network
• NDBC — National Data Buoy Center
• CLRC — Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (UK)
• CML — Chronic Myelogenic Leukemia
• CD — cytosine deaminase
• CA — Children Age
• CAPP — Concerted Action Polyp Prevention
• CF — competence factor
• CF — Correction Factor
• CB — Cajal Bodies
• CM — cisterna magna
• CC — cervical carcinoma
• APP — AVHRR Polar Pathfinder
• NDPD — National Data Processing Division (EPA)
• PXS — XMM Project Spacecraft
• NBIOME — Northern Biosphere Observation and Modeling Experiment
• UADE — Unanticipated Adverse Device Effects
• NODS — NASA Ocean Data System
• CF — Clastogenic factor
• TTP — Time to Perigee
• HBR — Hydrogen Bromide
• ESSA — Environmental Science Services Administration (preceded NOAA)
• GMSLP — Global Mean Sea Level Pressure
• ASPS — Acid Shock Proteins
• CB — Chromatoid Body
• APTF — Admissions Processing Task Force
• OBSM — On-Board Software Maintenance
• MLOPEX — Mauna Loa Observatory Photochemistry Experiment
• AR — Acrosome reaction
• USBR — United States Bureau of Reclamation (USDI)
• SVF — Software Validation Facility
• CCS — Clinical Classification System
• RAPS — Regulatory Affairs Professional Society
• CAO — Chlorophyll A Oxygenase
• EATD — European Association of Technical Divers
• CC — complete chimerism
• WCSAR — Wisconsin Center for Space Automation and Robotics

• SMDA — Safe Medical Devices Act (1990)
• CITE — Chemical Instrumentation Test and Evaluation
• XMCS — XMM MissionControl System
• DS2 — Second Dark Spot (Neptune)
• RTK — Right-To-Know
• XIE — X-Ray Imaging Experiment
• XTE — X-Ray Timing Explorer
• ASR — acoustic startle response
• MRIF — Multicampus Research Incentive Fund
• APM — Academic Personnel Manual
• SHM — Social History of Medicine
• BC — blast crisis
• OCS — Outer Continental Shelf (oil)
• EDMA — European Diagnostics Manufacturer's Association
• PAB — Pharmaceutical Affairs Bureau (Japan)
• CGCL — Central Giant Cell Lesion
• CE — colony efficiency
• AM — arbuscular mycorrhizal
• AS — Ankylosing Spondylitis
• ICH — International Conference of Harmonization
• NPOESS — National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System
• PMIR — Pressure Modulator Infrared Radiometer
• AC — Academic Council
• CCA — Conventional Cytogenetic Analysis
• EROS — Earth Resources Observing System
• CD — Chromatin Diminution
• DBI — Digital Bus Interface
• OAL — ODF Access Layer
• ARPS — Affected Relative Pairs
• PERI — Pharmaceutical Education & Research Institute
• MICR — Magnetic-Ink Character Recongnition
• RDE — RGS Digital Electronic Unit
• CTD — Chemical Technology Division (ORNL)
• NODIS — NSSDC Online Data and Information System Services System
• STR — Star TRacker
• IRMM — Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements
• PMA — Premarket Application
• INRA — Institut National de Recherche Agronomiques (France)
• PGS — Proposal Generation System
• POL — Physician's Office Laboratory
• AMS — atypical mole syndrome
• AL — Acute Leukemia
• CA — Constitutively Active
• AUM — Asymmetric Unit Membrane
• AP — Adaptor Protein
• ALE/GAGE — Atmospheric Lifetime Experiment/Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment
• BBV — Black Beetle Virus
• AL — Angiotropic lymphoma
• LMSC — Lockheed Missiles and Space Corporation
• JANET — Joint Academic Network

• BD — Birth Defects
• CWA — Clean Water Act (1977)
• CIMO — Commission for Instruments and Methods of Observation
• IAS — Interactive Analysis Subsystem
• CENR — Committee on Environment and Natural Resources
• MDMA — Medical Device Manufacturers Association
• TERSE — Tunable Etalon Remote Sounder of Earth
• CAD — Cinnamyl Alcohol dehydrogenase
• ASP — Audiogenic seizure Prone
• CAT — Common Arterial Trunk
• HPB — Health Protection Board (Canada)
• ORR — Oak Ridge Reservation
• PX — XMM Project
• FBTR — Fast Breeder Test Reactor
• DISK — magnetic media (floppies)
• NNPI — Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information
• EMCU — EPIC MOS Camera Head Unit
• TOMUIS — 3-D ozone mapping with ultraviolet imaging spectrometer
• NHRI — National Hydrology Research Institute
• AS — Aldosterone Synthase
• LDO — Locally Designated Officer
• UCMC — University of California Marine Council
• DWS — Division of Water Supply
• ASSA — Aminopterin Syndrome Sine Aminopterin
• LCLIYMUUCADULFW.S — le cock la in your mouth until u choke and die u lazy fucking whore. slut
• ILAS — Improved Limb Atmospheric Spectrometer
• ACSOE — Atmospheric Chemistry Studies in the Oceanic Environment
• CAS — Centre for Atmospheric Science (Cambridge, UK)
• GAIM — Global Analysis, Interpretation and Modeling
• PT — Pass-Through
• OGIP — Office of Guest Investigator Programs
• CMAP — Climate Modeling, Analysis and Prediction Program
• BB — Bacterial Blight
• NAMES — National Association of Medical Equipment Services
• NAG — Numerical Algorithms Group Inc.
• CC — Cleavable Complex
• CC — Cervical Cancer
• GLOMAC — Global Modelling of Atmospheric Chemistry (EUROTRAC)
• OOD — Object-Oriented Design
• CITA — Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
• PRIC — Polar Research Institute of China
• UCT — Universal Time Code
• NHIB — National Health Insurance Bureau (Taiwan)
• CICS — Cooperative Institute for Climate Studies (U.Maryland)
• CA — chromosome aberration
• CA — Candida albicans
• FDRG — Faculty Discipline Review Group
• AS — Argininosuccinate Synthetase
• CDIAC — Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Cente
• CA — Chromosome Analysis

• AI — Allele Imbalance
• ARF — Ancillary Response Function
• CACGP — Commission For Atmospheric Chemistry And Global Pollution
• KANUPP — Karachi Nuclear Power Plant
• AMFR — Autocrine Motility Factor Receptor
• GCDIS — US Global Change Data and Information System
• CASPR — Cloud and Surface Parameter Retrieval
• POLDER — Polarization and Directionality of Reflectances
• EDH — EPIC Data Handling Unit
• SMS/GOES — Synchronous Meteorological Satellite/Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
• CC — Conventional Cytogenetic
• AK — activated killer
• AGN — Active Galaxy Nucleus
• NPOP — NASA Polar Orbiting Platform
• SORG — Stratospheric Ozone Review Group
• ASH — Asymmetric Septal Hypertrophy
• OFS — Orbiter Flight Simulator
• ASA — Academic Staff Assembly
• CGS — Contiguous Gene Syndromes
• CMS — Configuration Management System
• CA — Colanic Acid
• EVC — Executive Vice Chancellor
• IST — integrated systems test
• GOMR — Global Ozone Monitoring Radiometer
• COVC — Council of Vice Chancellors
• SBUV — Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet (experiment)
• AIST — Advanced Industrial Science Technology
• CITE — Cargo Integration and Test Equipment (DXS)
• ASMCS — Arterial Smooth Muscle Cells
• UBA — Universal Breathing Apparatus
• CODAR — COrrelation Detection And Ranging
• CDCS — Cri Du Chat Syndrome
• CEQA — California Environmental Quality Act
• FAUI — Federation of Australian Underwater Instructors
• BF — Basal Forebrain
• CART — Cloud and Radiation Testbed (ARM)
• MST — Mesosphere Stratosphere Troposphere (Radar)
• ORAU — Oak Ridge Associated Universities
• COCIR — Coordination Committee of the Radiological and Electromedical Industries
• SCOPE — Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (ICSU and IGBP)
• SCHISM — Science Simulator
• UCRS — University of California Retirement System
• ASU — Astronomical Server URL
• CLAVR — Clouds from AVHRR
• ASP — Apoptosis Specific Protein
• CAS — cellular apoptosis susceptibility
• SPO — Sponsored Projects Office
• EXPORT — European eXport of Precursors and Ozone by long-Range Transport
• ETTP — East Tennessee Technology Park
• BIATEX — Biosphere-Atmosphere Exchange of Pollutants (EUROTRAC)

• DP — Data Products
• ITT — Integration and Test Team
• AO&SS — Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences
• CCR — Cassette Chromosome Recombinase
• VNIR — Visible And Near InfraRed
• VLA — Very Large Array
• DWPC — Division of Water Pollution Control
• NBII — National Biological Information Infrastructure
• PSD — Prevention of Significant Deterioration
• APS — Autoimmune Polyendocrine Syndromes
• CLSM — confocal laser scan microscope
• SI — Systeme International
• HDU — Header Data Unit
• AP — Alkaline Protease
• AL — Aeronomy Laboratory (Boulder, Colorado) (ERL)
• HDP — Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
• AEDU — Admiralty Experimental Diving Unit
• HEDIS — Healthplan Employee Data and Information
• AMRIR — Advanced Medium Resolution Infrared Radiometer
• IPE — Institute of Physics of the Earth
• TMC — Thinking Machine Corporation
• CA — Chromatid Aberrations
• CE — cellular extract
• NETC — National Environmental Technology Centre (UK)
• GOMOS — Global Ozone Monitoring by Occultation of Stars
• AHC — Adrenal Hypoplasia Congenital
• PI — Position Invariant
• AS — autologous serum
• ASIM — American Society of International Medicine
• TIR — Thermal Infrared
• CATS — Comparative Anchor Tagged Sequence
• UCOPE — University Committee on Preparatory Education
• MPE — Max Planck Institut fur Extaterrestrische Physik, Garching
• CCA — Congenital Contractural Arachnodactyly
• OLS — Optical Line Scanner
• AVCS — Advanced Vidicon Camera System
• BAHC — Biosphere Aspects of the Hydrological Cycle (IGBP programme)
• NMDC — National Medical Device Coalition
• CLASS — Cross-Chain Loran Atmospheric Sounding System
• ILE — Institute for Labor and Employment
• CG — Chorionic Gonadotropin
• ERAD — Economic and Regulatory Analysis Division
• ERL — Environmental Research Laboratory (NOAA)
• PSPC — Position Sensitive Proportional Counters
• CA — Clavulanic Acid
• ECA — Effective Cloud Amount
• NORDA — Naval Ocean Research and Development Activity
• GLI — Global Imager
• PAGES — Past Global Changes (IGBP)
• EDU — Event Detection Unit

• NILU — Norwegian Institute for Air Research
• MRU — Multicampus Research Unit
• OCLO — chlorine dioxide
• GEOSAT — Geodesy Satellite (Navy)
• CFHT — Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, on Mauna Kea
• HK — HouseKeeping Data
• AMDM — Association of Medical Diagnostics Manufacturers
• AK — Aspartate kinase
• ACP — Atmospheric Chemistry Program (DOE)
• UCSC — University of California, Santa Cruz (since 1965; Santa Cruz, California)
• AU — Activity Units
• DLC — Distributed Learning Center
• BA — Brucella Abortus
• BER — Base Excision Repair (biology)
• BCCP — apo-biotin carboxyl carrier protein
• MOHMATN — Met Office Historical night Marine Air Temperature
• NEIC — National Enforcement Investigations Center
• WWSEF — Waterloo-Wellington Science and Engineering Fair
• ORISE — Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education
• BC — Burkholderia cepacia
• ADEM — Alabama Dept. of Environmental Management
• NCTRS — Network Command and Telemetry Router System
• MOSS — Manned Orbital Space Station
• CDC — Collecting duct carcinoma
• NAEI — National Atmospheric Emission Inventory (UK)
• SPIE — The Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers
• ORU — Organized Research Unit
• AWPD — Assessment and Watershed Protection Division
• SEAWIFS — Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor
• GISS — Goddard Institute for Space Studies (NASA)
• HCPCS — Health Care Common Procedure Coding System
• AOC — Allene Oxide Cyclase
• CF — Cladosporium fulvum
• CC — Cellular Cycle
• ASP — Agouti Signaling Protein
• UCEI — UC Energy Institute
• PWSA — Ports and Waterways Safety Act
• ICWG — International Coordination Working Group
• ESOC — European Satellite Operations Center
• ESMR — Electrically Scanning Microwave Radiometer
• CA — Cytogenetic Aberrations
• WMRS — White Mountain Research Station
• FIRETRACC — Firn Record of Trace Gases Relevant to Atmospheric Chemical Change
• ARSLOE — Atlantic Remote Sensing Land/Ocean Experiment
• DADS — Data Archive and Distribution System
• PRAREE — Precise Range and Rate Equipment-Extended Version
• SAGE — Stratospheric Aerosol Gas Experiment
• CM — Congenital Malformations
• CICA — Center for Innovative Computer Applications
• CHAT — Choline Acetyltransferase

• STRATOZ — Stratospheric Ozone Expedition
• LOICZ — Land Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (IGBP)
• BADC — British Atmospheric Data Centre
• WCRP — World Climate Research Program
• MOPITT — Measurements Of Pollution In The Troposphere (EOS)
• CA — Cytogenetic Abnormalities
• ARF — An Ancillary Response File
• VIRSR — Visible Infrared Scanning Radiometer
• SUPARCO — Space of Upper Atmosphere Research Committee
• DAO — Data Assimilation Office (NASA)
• SEC — Science Executive Committee of the IWG
• DPS — Division of Planetary Science
• PIDAS — Portable Instantaneous Display and Analysis Spectrometer
• ER-2 — Earth Resources, #2
• CI — Coccidioides immitis
• MPI — Minnesota Project Innovation
• CRI — Committee on Research Initiatives
• CSEPA — Chinese State Environment Protection Agency (China)
• TNT — Trinitrotoluene
• GLRS-A — Geoscience Laser Ranging System-Altimeter (see GLAS)
• MNBIO — Minnesota Biotechnology
• UCR — University of California, Riverside's
• J.D. — Juris Doctor degree
• MIRD — Mission Implementation Requirements Documents
• EPDH — EPIC pn Data Handling Unit
• BCRS — Breakpoint Cluster Regions
• ASCII — American Standards Committee for Information Interchange
• AM — Affected Male
• PSC — Polar Stratospheric Clouds (in Antarctic)
• ASTEX — Atlantic STratus EXperiment
• CE — clonal evolution
• DPD — Data Processing Division
• AP — Arbitrarily Primed
• BC — Binucleated Cells
• ERSAF — Environment Remote Sensing Analysis Facility
• APAFO — Advanced Particles And Fields Observer
• JCMM — Joint Centre for Mesoscale Meteorology
• AGCI — Aspen Global Change Institute
• BUV — Backscattered UltraViolet
• ISLSCP — International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project
• DST — Data Systems Test
• TRACT — Transport of Pollutants over Complex Terrain (EUROTRAC)
• ARM — Atmospheric Radiation Monitoring
• WMF — Windows Metafile
• BE — Branching Enzyme
• CD — Crohn disease
• AGC — Advanced Gastric Carcinoma
• EPG — Engineering Proposal Generation
• PSDF — Power Spectral Density Function
• AT — Autologous Transplantation

• ACCCI — American Coke and Coal Chemicals Institute
• DEFA — Digital Event Filter and Address Encoder
• CH — Cerebral Hemispheres
• SAFARI — Southern African Fire-Atmosphere Research Initiative (BIBEX)
• DMS — DiMethylSulphide
• PBPK — Physiologically-Based Pharmacokinetic
• AESA — Atmospheric Effects of Stratospheric Aircraft
• MIDAS — Munich Interactive Data Analysis System
• LR — Laser Retroreflector
• CST — Convective-Stratiform Technique
• ALPTRAC — High Alpine Aerosol and Snow Chemistry Study (EUROTRAC)
• OTEC — ocean thermal energy conversion (electricity)
• COADS — Comprehensive Ocean Atmosphere Data Set
• TROPOZ — Tropospheric Ozone Expedition
• CI — cardiac involvement
• OSU — Oregon State University
• TDG — Tennessee Division of Geology
• CA — Cavernous Angiomas
• GSFC — Goddard Space Flight Centre
• AH — Albumen Height
• BA — Bone Age
• AIRS — Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder (EOS)
• MODB — MOC Operational Database
• JFMDA — Japan Federation of Medical Device Associations
• UCR — University of California at Riverside
• MEDMARC — Medical Device Material Assurance and Reinsurance Company, Ltd.
• AM — Alveolar Macrophage
• EPCE — EPIC pn Control Electronics Unit
• NTS — Nevada Test Site
• CI — centromeric index
• BLIS — Boundary Layer Instrumentation System
• UM — Unified Model
• AN — Alkaline Nuclease
• GIMMS — Global Inventory Modeling and Monitoring Study
• RNMI — Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
• ED — Energy Division
• UWERN — University WEather Research Network
• MD — Medium Frequency
• DAR — Division of Atmospheric Research (CSIRO)
• RANN — Research Applied to National Needs (NSF)
• SCOS — Spacecraft Control and Operations System
• CBS — classic Bartter syndrome
• GLAS — Geoscience Laser Altimeter System
• CH — Channel Header
• NSTX — Neosaxitoxin
• OPIA — Optical Precision Instrument Associates
• NASA — National Aeronautic & Space Administration
• GISST — Global sea Ice Coverage and Sea Surface Temperature
• CRF — Calibration Resource File
• IOTP — International Ozone Trands Panel

• CH — congenital hydrocephalus
• AU — Atomic Units
• GSITT — Segment Integration and Test Team
• ASF — Alaskan SAR Facility
• CCST — California Council on Science & Technology
• SLASIAC — Systemwide Library and Scholarly Information Advisory Committee
• STREAM — Stratosphere-Troposphere Experiment by Aircraft Measurements
• GEWEX — Global Energy And Water Cycle EXperiment (WCRP)
• CUA — Circumpolar Universities Association
• NBIS — Northern Biosphere Information System
• RA — Research Assistant
• ALU — Arithmetic (and) Logic Unit
• MM — Mirror Model
• CRI — Climate Research Institute (Oklahoma State University)
• PM — Protocol Machine
• JETRO — Japan External Trade Organization
• NILU — Norsk Institutt for Luftforskning
• SWIR — Short-Wavelength Infrared
• DPU — digital processing unit
• TBW — To Be Written
• BRDF — Bidirectional Reflective Distribution Function
• TMU — Transmission Message Unit
• PCS — Payload Calibration Subsystem
• GCTE — Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems Program of the IGBP
• MDC — Major Diagnostics Category
• HEASARC — High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Centre
• DAL — Data Access Layer
• STG — Steering Group
• CARE — Cholesterol and Recurrent Events
• AC — Amylose Content
• AMSAS — AOA Meteorological Satellite Analysis System
• HFC — HydroFluoroCarbon
• SAMS — stratospheric and mesopheric sounder
• IOA — Institute Of Astronomy (Cambridge)
• DPS — Detector Power Supply
• CH — cuticular hydrocarbon
• BCG — bacillus of Calmette and Guérin
• PARE — Physiological & Anatomical Rodent Experiment
• CSU — Colorado State University (Fort Collins)
• PIEAS — Pakistan Institute of Engineering & Appliead Sciences
• SCED — Engineering Department at ESOC
• EUCOMED — European Confederation of Medical Suppliers Associations
• DRIBU — DRIfting BUoy data
• BOARS — Board of Admissions and Relations with Schools
• AXAF — Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility, future NASA mission
• SOLSTICE — Solar Stellar Irradiance Comparison Experiment
• LACTOZ — Laboratory Studies of Chemistry Related to Tropospheric Ozone (EUROTRAC)
• UCD — University of California, Davis
• CAR — Cytokinetic Actomyosin Ring
• SSS — Social Studies of Science

• APTI — Air Pollution Training Institute
• OLA — Off-Line Analysis
• TCI/TK — Tool Control Language and Toolkit
• FDDI — Fibre Distributed Data Interface
• NORSAR — Norwegian Seismic Array
• CA — Cyclopiazonic Acid
• CTS — Committee on Teaching of Science
• NAHC — National Association of Home Care
• CLNS — Connectionless Network Services
• SCARABE — Scanning Radiation Budget Experiment
• GMS — Geostationary Meteorological Satellite (Japan)
• CI — chromosomal instability
• BS — Binary Star
• RAF — Radiation Amplification Factor
• LAWS — Laser Atmospheric Wind Sounder (NASA)
• NACNEMS — North American Cooperative Network of Enhanced Measurement Sites
• CHAMMP — Computer Hardware, Advanced Mathematics and Model Physics Program
• CC — Classical Cytogenetic
• JCEE — Joint Conference of EARMA and Euroscience
• VIRTEM — Validation of IASI Radiative Transfer: Experiments and Modelling
• MODIS-N — Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer-Nadir
• CAMEX — Convection and Moisture Experiment
• AP — Antimicrobial Peptides
• AHR — Ability of Aromatic Hydrocarbon Receptor
• IFS — Integrated Forecast System
• SOE — Security of Employment
• VISSR — Visible/Infrared Spin-Scan Radiometer (GOES)
• SPEVAL — Spacecraft Evaluation System
• UART — Universal Asynchronous Receive and Transmit
• PEM — Particle Environment Monitor
• CAT — Carbon Dioxide Absorption Technique
• CC — Condensed chromatin
• ANDI — American Nitrox Divers Incorporated
• SHF — Short History File
• BF — Bomb Factory
• DC — Detector Controller (DXS)
• CD — Cone Degeneration
• GRD — Government Relations Director
• CANSO — California Articulation Number System Office
• HRDI — High Resolution Doppler Imager
• PROS — X-Ray data analysis package, part of IRAFm supported by CfA
• SDSD — Satellite Data Services Division
• IRIS — Incorporated Research Institution for Seismology
• LORAN — Long-Range Navigation
• DOIT — Department Of Information Technology (UW-MSN)
• DB — Diversion Box
• LWIR — long-wavelength (thermal) infrared
• MSIM — Mirror Simulator
• SIR-C — Shuttle Imaging Radar-C
• SSDF — Space Science Development Facility

• ECB — Educational Communications Board
• CAC — Centre for Atmospheric Chemistry (York, Canada)
• UARC — University Affiliated Research Center
• MTI — Minnesota Technology Inc
• WINDII — Wind Imaging Interferometer
• EFSC — Eastern Food Science Conference
• TSU — Tennessee State University
• OIU — Observer Interface Unit
• HAACP — Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points Program
• KORDI — Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute
• AVTD — Anomalous Viscosity Time Dependence
• VIRS — Visible Infrared Scanner
• POLES — Polar Exchange at the Sea Surface
• PMC — Pressure-Modulator Cell
• UER — University-Emeriti Relations Committee
• HKD — Housekeeping Data
• EPIC — European Photon Imaging Camera
• CCP — Cytochrome C Peroxidase
• ST-ECF — Space Telescope - European Coordinating Facility
• IWC — Instream Waste Concentration
• NERC — National Environmental Research Council
• DG — Directorate-General (EU) (government)
• AVIRIS — airborne visible and infrared imaging spectrometer
• LQHUW — Large Quantity Handlers of Universal Waste
• RFC — RGS Focal Camera Unit
• XID — X-Ray Identification
• AE — Effective Area
• NEFCO — Nordic Environment Finance Corporation
• DODS — Distributed Ocean Data System
• PMS — Payload Monitoring Subsystem
• MDA — Medical Device Amendments
• RPS — Remote Proposal Submission
• AVR — Acute Vascular Rejection
• BBM — anti-brush border membrane
• COHMEX — Cooperative Huntsville Meteorological Experiment
• LRPT — low-resolution picture transmission
• RAPS — radiologists, anesthesiologists, and pathologists
• AGO — automated geophysical observatories
• WFC — Wide-Field Camera
• HER — High Energy Resolution
• DCR — Dedicated Control Room
• NIPR — National Institute of Polar Research
• ESOC — European Satellite Operation Centre
• IGETC — Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum
• HIRIS — High Resolution Imaging Spectrometer
• CORP — Corporation
• ISI — Infrared Space Observatory
• EMCS — EPIC MOS Camera System
• MAPS — Measurement of Atmospheric Pollution from Satellites
• COC — Committee on Committees

• BC — biotin carboxylase
• CFA — Centre for Astrophysics
• WSAD — Websphere Studio Application Developer
• IPA — Institute for Polyacryclate Sciences
• EUV — Extreme Ultra-Violet 2
• SCANSCAT — scanning scatterometer
• DESY — Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron
• ICOLC — International Consortium of Library Consortia
• TES — Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (EOS)
• SAS — Science Analysis Subsystem
• BC — Branhamella catarrhalis
• ISI — Institutes for Science and Innovation
• ASCA — Japanese X-Ray Astronomy satellite launched 1993
• TSTRP — Toxic Substance Research and Training Program
• MPU — Mission Planning Unit
• UCOP — University of California, Office of the President
• ODBMS — Object-Oriented Data-Base Management System
• VOB — Vertical Optical Branch
• ADAM — Astronomical Data Acquisition and Management
• KNMI — Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut
• AIMS — Australian Institute of Marine Science
• ITIR — Infrared Thermal Imaging Radiometer (renamed ASTER)
• CCLRC — Central Laboratory of the Research Councils
• UCEAP — University Committee on Education Abroad Program
• NEJAC — National Environmental Justice Advisory Council
• GSRR — Ground Segment Requirements Review
• WBDCS — Wide-Band Data Collection System
• SPAN — Space Physics Analysis Network
• SIP — Sickness Index Profile
• USAEC — United States Army Corps of Engineers
• CAAS — Contracted Advisory & Assistance Services
• IMG — Interferometric Monitor of Greenhouse Gases
• MOC — XMM Mission Operation Centre
• CRCC — Cancer Research Coordinating Committee
• CD — Complete Deficiency
• MTSU — Middle Tennessee State University's
• AVHRR LAC — AVHRR Local Area Coverage
• HIMSS — high-resolution microwave spectrometer sounder
• SAT — Sulphuric Acid Tetrahydrate
• PDTS — PPS Data Transfer System
• LAMBADA — Large Scale Atmospheric Moisture Balance of Amazonia using Data Assimilation (BAHC/GEWEX)
• XSELECT — Data selection and binning tool, part of FTOOLS package
• MWIR — medium-wavelength infrared
• SSO — Solar System Object
• ISCCP — International Satellite Cloud Climatology Program
• MDR — Medical Device Register
• ERME — EPIC Radiation Monitor Electronics
• CADC — Canadian Astrophysical Data Centre
• JPOP — Japanese Polar Orbiting Platform
• HIRLAM — High-Resolution Limited Area Model

• TCP/IP — Networking Protocol used on Internet
• SIMBAD — Set of Identifications, Measurements, and Bibliography for Astronomical Data
• STERAO — Stratosphere-Troposphere Experiments: Radiation, Aerosols, and Ozone
• IFCC — International Federation of Clinical Chemists
• ESIS — European Southern Observatory
• POGO — Polar-Orbiting Geophysical Observatory
• RIS — reflector in space (laser beam adsorption, measures O3, CFCs, etc.)
• APM — Automatic Plate Measurement
• BD — Bone Density
• SSD — Space Science Department
• MGLS — Marine Geoscience Leadership Symposium
• MOHSST — Met Office Historical Sea Surface Temperature
• LEDPA — Least Environmental Damaging Plan Alternative
• MODIS — Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
• IMPAC — Intersegmental Major Preparation Articulated Curriculum
• DXRB — Diffuse X-Ray Background
• SAG — Science Advisory Group
• METEOR — USSR Operational Weather Satellite
• NIRP — National Institute for Radiation Protection
• ICC — Intersegmental Coordinating Committee
• OOA — Object-Oriented Analysis
• ARIEL-6 — UK X-Ray Astronomy Satellite launched 1979
• COC — Council of Chancellors
• DAC — Digital to Analogue Conversion