Appendix Acronyms S

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Acronyms - S

S South

S Supplement

SA Salvation Army

SA Seaman Apprentice

SA Service Assistant

SA Sex Appeal

SA Sine Anno (without date)

SA South Africa

SA South America

SA Subject to Approval

SAA South Atlantic Anomaly

SAA South Atlantic Anomaly [Space]

SAA Systems Application Architecture

SAC Special Area Code [Telephony] (represent services, not places)

SAC Strategic Air Command (see TAC)

SAC Strategic Air Command [US military]

SADD Students Against Drunk Driving

SAFENET Survivable Adaptable Fiberoptic Embedded Network [US Navy]

SAM Surface to Air Missile

SAM Surface-to-Air Missile

SAMA Step-by-step Automatic Message Accounting [Telephony]

SAMPEX Solar Anomalous and Magnetospheric Particle EXplorer [Space]

SAMTO Space And Missile Test Organization [Space]

SAO Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory [Space]

SAP Second Audio Program

SAP Service Access Point [OSI, Networking]

SAR Search And Rescue

SAR Synthetic Aperture Radar

SARA Satellite pour Astronomie Radio Amateur [Space]

SARA Stichting Academisch Rekencentrum Amsterdam (Amsterdam Universities Computing Center)

SAREX Search and Rescue Exercise [Space]

SAREX Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment [Space]

SARTS Switched Access Remote Test System

SAS Small Astronomy Satellite

SAS Space Activity Suit [Space]

SASE Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope

SASI Shugart Associates Systems Interface

SAT Satellite [Space]

SAW Surface Acoustic Wave

SBA Small Business Administration

SC Secondary Channel

SC Sectional Center

S&C Skull & Crossbones

SC South Carolina

S/C SpaceCraft [Space]

SC SubCommittee

SCA Shuttle Carrier Aircraft [Space]

SCAD Subsonic Cruise Armed Decoy

SCADC Standard Central Air Data Computer

SCAME SCreen oriented Anti-Misery Editor

SCAMP Single-Chip A-series Mainframe Processor

SCAN Switched Circuit Automatic Network

SCC Specialised Common Carriers

SCC Switching Control Center

SCCS Source Code Control System

SCE Signal Conversion Equipment

SCE Structure Chart Editor

SCI SpaceCraft Incorporated

SCIFI SCIence FIction (often used pejoratively of what really isn't)

SCO Santa Cruz Operation

SCOOPS SCheme Object Oriented Programming System

SCOTS Surveilance and Control Of Transmission Systems

SCSI Small Computer Systems Interface

SCT Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope [Space]

SCUBA Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus

SCUD Subsonic Cruise Unarmed Decoy

SD South Dakota

SDB Source(?) DeBugger

SDI Standard Disk Interconnect [DEC]

SDI Strategic Defense Initiative [Space, US Government]

SDIO Strategic Defense Initiative Organization [Space, US Government]

SDLC Synchronous Data Link Control [IBM]

SDM Sub-rate Data Multiplexer

SDN Software Defined Network [Telephony, AT&T]

SDN System Development Network (Korea)

SDO Staff Duty Officer

SDSC San Diego Supercomputer Center

SDV Shuttle Derived Vehicle [Space]

SE Service Engineer (see also CE, FE)

SE South East

SEATO SouthEast Asia Treaty Organization

SEC Security Exchange Commission

SECNAV SECretary of the NAVy

SED Stream EDitor

SEI Software Engineering Institute (Carnegie Mellon)

SEI Space Exploration Initiative [Space]

SEL Software Engineering Laboratory

SEM Scanning Electron Microscope

SEST Swedish-European Submillimeter Telescope [Space]

SETI Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence [Space]

SETI Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence [Space]

SF San Francisco

SF Science Fiction; Speculative Fiction

SF Standard Form

SF Star Frontiers

SFRPG Science Fiction Role Playing Game

SG StarGuard

SG SubGroup

SGML Standard Generalised Markup Language

SHAPE Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe

SHAR SHell ARchiver

SHCD Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective

SHF Super High Frequency (3-30GHz)

SHRPG Super Hero Role Playing Game

SI Staten Island

SIAM Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

SID Sudden Ionospheric Disturbance [Space]

SIG Special Interest Group

SIGCAT Special Interest Group for Cd-rom Applications Technology

SIMD Single Instruction, Multiple Data

SIMM Single In-line Memory Module

SIMM System Integrated Memory Module

SINE SINE is not EINE

SIPS Satellite Imagery Processing System

SIR Shuttle Imaging Radar [Space]

SIRTF Space (formerly Shuttle) InfraRed Telescope Facility [Space]

SIRTF Space Infrared Telescope Facility [Space]

SIS Strategic Information System

SISCOM Satellite Information System COMpany

SITA Societe Internationale Telecommunications Aeronautiques

SJ Society of Jesus

SL Salvage Loss

SL Space Launch [Space]

SL SpaceLab [Space]

SLA Special Libraries Association

SLA Synchronous Line Adapter

SLAC Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

SLAN Sine Loco, Anno, (vel) Nomine (without place, year, or name)

SLAR Side Looking Airborne Radar

SLAR Side-Looking Airborne Radar [Space]

SLBM Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles

SLC Space Launch Complex [Space]

SLC Subscriber Loop Carrier [Telephony]

SLDC Synchronous Data Link Control

SLIP Serial Line Internet Protocol

SLIP Serial Line IP (sometimes SL/IP) (see also PPP)

SLP Super Long Play (VHS VCR)

SLS Space(lab) Life Sciences [Space]

SM Service Mark

SMA Sergeant Major of the Army

SMA Spectrum Manufacturers Association

SMC Small Magellanic Cloud (see LMC)

SMC Small Magellanic Cloud [Space]

SMD Storage Module Device (interface standard for disk drives)

SMD Surface Mounted Devices

SMDR Station Message Detail Recording [Telephony]

SMDS Switched Multi-megabit Data Service [Telephony, Networking]

SME Solar Mesosphere Explorer [Space]

SMEGMA Sophisticated Modern Editor with Gloriously Magnificent Abilities

SMERSH Abbr. of Russian phrase meaning "Death to the spies."

SMEX SMall EXplorers [Space]

SMILS Sonobuoy Missile Impact Location System

SMM Solar Maximum Mission (satellite 1980-1989) [Space]

SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

SMU Southeastern Massachusetts University

SMU Southern Methodist University

SN Science News [Periodical]

SN Serial Number

SN Super Nova

SN SuperNova (e.g., SN1987A) [Space]

SNA Systems Network Architecture [IBM]

SNADS SNA Distribution Services

SNAFU Situation Normal - All Fouled Up (also more profane versions)

SNAP Shipboard Non-tactical Automated data Processing program

SNAP Sub Network Access Protocol [OSI, Networking]

SNCF Societe National des Chemins de Fer (French National Railways)

SNF Server-Natural Format

SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol [TCP/IP]

SNOBOL StriNg Oriented symbOLic Language

SNPA SubNetwork Point of Attachment

SNR Signal to Noise Ratio

SNR Signal to Noise Ratio [Space]

SNR SuperNova Remnant [Space]

SNU Solar Neutrino Units [Space]

SO Seller's Option

SO Significant Other

SO Space Opera

SO Strike Out

SOAP Symbolic Optimizing Assembler Program

SOFIA Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy [Space]

SOH Start Of Header, ASCII control character (dec=01,control-A)

SOHIO Standard Oil of oHIO [Corporate name]

SOHO SOlar Heliospheric Observatory [Space]

SOL Short on Landing (or, colloquially, Shit Out of Luck)

SONAR SOund Detection And Ranging

SONET Synchronous Optical Network [Telephony]

SOP Standard Operating Procedure

SOS Save Our Souls (International standard distress call, Morse ...---...)

SOS Silicon On Sapphire

SOS Son of Stopgap (editor) [DEC]

SP Shore Patrol

SP Short Play (VHS VCR)

SP Southern Pacific [Corporate name, Railroading]

SP Stack Pointer

SP Star Patrol

SPA Software Publishers Association

SPAG Standards Promotion and Applications Group

SPAN Space Physics and Analysis Network [NASA] (DECnet)

SPAN Space Physics and Analysis Network [Space]

SPAR Stock Points Adp Replacement

SPARC Scalable Processor ARChitecture

SPARC Standards, Planning, And Requirements Committee

SPAWAR naval SPAce and WARfare command

SPC Software Productivity Consortium

SPCA Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

SPCC Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children

SPDM Special Purpose Dextrous Manipulator [Space]

SPEC Systems Performance Evaluation Cooperative

SPITBOL SPeedy ImplemenTation of snoBOL

SPNI Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel

SPOT Systeme Probatoire pour l'Observation de la Terre [Space]

SPS Solar Power Satellite [Space]

SPUR Systech Pluraxial Unplug Repeater

SQIID Simultaneous Quad Infrared Imaging Device (at NOAO)

SQL Structured Query Language

SQUID Superconducting QUantum Interference Device

SRAM Short Range Attack Missile

SRAM Static RAM

SRB Solid (fuel) Rocket Booster [Space]

SRG Short and Ring Ground (test) [Telephony]

SRI Stanford Research Institute

SRM Solid Rocket Motor [Space]

SRO Standing Room Only

SS7 Signalling System #7 [Telephony]

SSA Social Security Administration [US Government]

SSB Single Side Band

SSC Superconducting Super Collider

SSE South-SouthEast

SSF Space Station Fred (er, Freedom) [Space]

SSF Space Station Freedom [NASA, Space]

SSFF Showcase Software Factory of the Future

SSG Staff SerGeant

SSI Small Scale Integration

SSI Solid-State Imager (on Galileo) [Space]

SSI Space Services Incorporated [Corporate name, Space]

SSI Space Studies Institute [Space]

SSI Supplemental Security Income

SSME Space Shuttle Main Engine [Space]

SSPF Space Station Processing Facility [Space]

SSPS Satellite Solar Power Station [Space]

SSR Secondary Surveillance Radar

SSR Soviet Socialist Republic

SSRMS Space Station Remote Manipulator System [Space]

SST Spectroscopic Survey Telescope [Space]

SST SuperSonic Transport [Space]

SSTO Single Stage To Orbit [Space]

SSTV Slow Scan TeleVision

SSW South-SouthWest

ST Short Ton

STARS Software Technology for Adaptable, Reliable Systems

STD Sacrae Theologiae Doctor (doctor of sacred theology)

STD Sexually Transmitted Disease (replaces VD)

STD State Transition Diagram

STD Subscriber Trunk Dialing (British, and elsewhere; equiv. DDD in USA)

STI Standard Tape Interconnect [DEC]

STILO Scientific and Technical Intelligence Liaison Office

STIS Space Telescope Imaging Spectrometer (to replace FOC and GHRS) [Space]

STL St. Louis (airport designation)

STN SuperTwisted Nematic

STOL Short TakeOff and Landing

STP Shielded Twisted Pair [Telecom, Networking]

STP Software Through Pictures

STP Standard Temperature and Pressure (see NTP)

STRPG Star Trek The Role-Playing Game

STS Space Transportation System (space shuttle) [NASA]

STScI Space Telescope Science Institute [Space]

STV Single Transferable Vote

STV Space Transfer Vehicle [Space]

STV Scottish Television (British)

SUM Symantec Utilities for Macintosh

SUN Stanford University Network

SUN SUN MicroSystems Computer (not an Acronym) [Corporate name]

SUNOCO SUN Oil COmpany [Corporate name]

SUNY State University of New York

SURAnet Southeastern Universities Research Association Network

SVID System V Interface Definition

SW South West

SW SuperWorld

SWAS Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite [Space]

SWBT South Western Bell Telephone [Telephony]

SWF ShortWave Fading [Space]

SWIFT Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Communications

SWS Scientific Workstation Support

SXS Step by Step switching [Telephony]