AB	Monochromatic magnitude system where zero magnitude corresponds to 3631 Jy
ADC	Atmospheric Dispersion Compensator
ADD	Algorithms Definition Document
AFRL	Air Force Research Laboratory
AP	Astrometric and Photometric survey (for PS1)
API	Application Programming Interface
Cell	A 512 pixel square OTCCD
CCB	Configuration Control Board --- reviews code changes
CDR	Critical Design Review
CoDR	Conceptional Design Review
CP	Commissioning Program (for PS1)
CR	Cosmic Ray
DRM	Design Reference Mission
FPA	Focal Plane Array --- an 8x8 mosaic of OTAs, possibly with the corners missing
IPP	Image Processing Pipeline
IVP	IPP Verification Program (for PS1)
Major Frame	A set of FPAs that observed the same region of sky	 
MHPCC	Maui High Performance Computing Centre
MIC	Manoa Innovation Centre --- home of Pan-STARRS headquarters
MOP	Moving Object Pipeline
MVP	MOP Verification Program (for PS1)
NEO	Near Earth Object
OT	Orthogonal Transfer
OTA	Orthogonal Transfer Array --- an 8x8 array of Cells on a single silicon wafer
Pan-STARRS	Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System
PDR	Preliminary Design Review
PHA	Potentially Hazardous Asteroid
Phase 0	Query database to guess what variable objects will be seen during the night
Phase 1	Detector readout and data transfer
Phase 2	Removal of instrumental signatures
Phase 3	Tweak astrometric and photometric calibration
Phase 4	Image combination and subtraction
PS	Pan-STARRS
PS1	Pan-STARRS telescope 1 (to be deployed to Haleakala by 1 Jan 2006)
PSDC	Pan-STARRS Document Control
PTS	Pan-STARRS Telescope Scheduler
SAIC	Science Applications International Corporation
SDD	Software Design Description
SRS	Software Requirements Specification
SS	Solar System --- generally refers to the wide bandpass filter
SWIG	Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator
UTI	Unit Time Interval --- optimum cadence for NEO discovery