AAS American Astronomical Society.
AGN Active Galactic Nuclei.
AIDS Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome.
ARPA Advanced Research Project Agency.
ASI Agenzia Spaziale Italiana.
ATP Advanced Technology Program.
AUV Autonomous Underwater Vehicles.
BEC Bose-Einstein Condensate.
BSE Bovine Spungiform Encephalopatie.
CCD Charged Coupled Devices.
CDM Cold Dark Matter.
CFC Chlorofluorocarbons.
CGRO Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory (satellite USA).
CJD Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease.
CMB Cosmic Microwave Background.
CNO Carbon-Nitrogen- Oxygen (processo stellare).
COBE Cosmic Background Explorer (NASA satellite).
CVD Chemical Vapor Deposition.
DA Department of Agriculture.
DARA Deutsche Agentur für Raumfahrtangelegenheiten.
DARPA Defence Advanced Research Project Agency.
DESY Deutsche Elektronen Synchrotron (Amburgo).
DOD Department of Defence
DOE Department of Energy.
EC European Community.
EOSDIS Earth Observing System Data and Information System.
EPA Environmental Protection Agency.
ERBS Earth Radiation Budget Satellite.
ERS-1 Earth Remote Sensing Satellite-1 (ESA satellite)
ESAF European Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (Grenoble).
ESO European Southern Observatory.
EUV Extreme Ultraviolet.
EUVE Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (NASA satellite).
FAO Food and Agriculture Organization (United Nations).
FDA Food and Drag Administration.
GOES Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite.
GPS Global Positioning System.
GRO Gamma Ray Observatory (NASA).
GUF Grand Unified Theory.
HDM Hot Dark Matter.
HDTV High Definition Television.
HERA Hadron-Electron Ring Accelerator (Dasy, Amburgo).
HGP Human Genome Project.
HIMAC Heavy-Ion Medical Accelerator
HIV Human Immunodeficiency Virus.
HST Hubble Space Telescope.
HTS High Temperature Superconductors.
IGB PInternational Geosphere-Biosphere Programme
IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
IRAS Infrared Astronomical Satellite.
ISEE-3 International Sun Earth Explorer-3 (NASA)
ISO Infrared Space Observatory (satellite ESA).
ITER International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor.
JET Joint European Torus.
JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
LEAR Low Energy Antiproton Ring (CERN, Ginevra)
LHC Large Hadron Collider (CERN, Ginevra)
LIGO Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory.
MACHO Massive Compact Halo Objects.
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
NEAR Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NASA)
NIF National Ignition Facility
NIH National Institutes of Health.
NIST National Institute of Standard and Technology.
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
NSA National Security Agency.
NSF National Science Foundation.
NWS National Weather Service.
OECD Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
OOP Object Oriented Programming.
PCD Programmed Cell Death (apoptosis).
PCR Polymerase Chain Reaction.
QCD Quantum Chromodynamics (Theory).
ROSAT Röentgen Satellite (German).
ROV Remoted Operated Vehicles.
RSFQ Rapid Single Flux Quantum.
SAR Synthetic Aperture Radar.
SDI Strategic Defence Initiative.
SEC Space Environmental Center.
SETI Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (NASA program).
SLAC Stanford Linear Acceleration Center.
SMES Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage
SOHO Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (satellite USA 1995)
SQUID Superconducting Quantum Interference Device.
SRI Satellite Radar Interferometry.
SSC Superconducting Super Collider.
STD Sexually Transmitted Disease.
STM Scanning Tunnelling Microscope.
STRI Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.
TOKAMAK Toroid-Kamera-MagnitKatushka (russian words) meaning”Toroidal chamber and Magnetic Coil”.
TOMS Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (Strumentazione Nimbus-7).
UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
USGS United States Geological Survey.
VLSI Very Large Scale Integrated Circuit.
VLT Very Large Telescope.
WIMP Weakly Interacting Massive Particles.
WHO World Health Organization.
WWW World Wide Web.
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Autore: Alberto Aiosa