List of acronyms: S

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This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends that begin with the letter S.

For the purposes of this list:

  • acronym = an abbreviation pronounced as if it were a word, e.g., SARS = severe acute respiratory syndrome, pronounced to rhyme with cars
  • initialism = an abbreviation pronounced wholly or partly using the names of its constituent letters, e.g., CD = compact disc, pronounced cee dee
  • pseudo-blend = an abbreviation whose extra or omitted letters mean that it cannot stand as a true acronym, initialism, or portmanteau (a word formed by combining two or more words).
(a) = acronym, e.g.: SARS – (a) severe acute respiratory syndrome
(i) = initialism, e.g.: CD – (i) compact disc
(p) = pseudo-blend, e.g.: UNIFEM – (p) United Nations Development Fund for Women
(s) = symbol (none of the above, representing and pronounced as something else; for example: MHz – Megahertz)

(Main list of acronyms)


S0–9[]

  • S followed by a number is used to denote various German and Austrian S-train lines.
  • S4C – (i) Sianel Pedwar Cymru (Welsh, "Channel Four Wales")
  • S3 - (i) Alternative to SSS (e.g. Amazon S3)

SA[]

  • sa – (s) Sanskrit language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • SA
    • (i) Salvation Army
    • (s) Sand (METAR Code)
    • Saudi Arabia (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country's code digram)
    • (i) Sexaholics Anonymous
    • (i) sine anno (Latin, "without year")
    • Single Adult, a designation in the LDS Church for unmarried individuals 18 and older
    • Situational awareness
    • South Africa
    • (i/s) South Australia (postal symbol)
    • (i) Standards Australia
    • Sturmabteilung (German, "Storm Detachment", Nazi forerunner and rival of SS)
  • S.A. – designation for a corporation in many European countries; see article for meanings
  • SAA
  • SAAB – (a) Svenska Aeroplan AB (Swedish aircraft manufacturer; also refers to its former auto manufacturing arm)
  • – (a/i) Standard use Army Aircraft Flight Route ("safer")
  • SAAMI – (a) Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers' Institute ("sammy")
  • SAARC – (i) South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
  • SAB – (i) Soprano Alto Baritone
  • Sabena – (a) Société anonyme belge d'exploitation de la navigation aérienne (French for "Belgian Company for Exploiting Aerial Navigation", 1923–2001)
  • SABIC – (p) Saudi Basic Industries Corporation
  • SABR – (a) Society for American Baseball Research
  • SAC
  • SACAT – (a) Semi Attended Customer Activated Terminal (Supermarket checkout)
  • SACEUR – (p) Supreme Allied Commander EURope
  • - Semi Automatic Capsule Filler source
  • SACLANT – (p) Supreme Allied Commander atLANTic
  • SACLOS – (a) Semi-Automatic Command to Line of Sight
  • SAD
  • SADD – (a) originally Students Against Drunk Driving, now Students Against Destructive Decisions (U.S. national school-related group)
  • SADL
    • (a) Situation Awareness Data Link ("saddle")
    • Structural Architecture Description Language
  • SADT - (i)
  • SAE
    • (i) Society of Automotive Engineers[1]
    • Stamped addressed envelope
  • SAFER – (a) Steel And Foam Energy Reduction
  • SAFETY – (a) Stopping Adults Facilitating the Exploitation of Today's Youth
  • – (a) Software Agents as Facilitators of Interoperability in Collective Training
  • sag – (s) Sango language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • SAG – (i) Screen Actors Guild
  • – (a) Situation Awareness Global Assessment Technique
  • SAGE – (a) Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (simulation)
  • SAHB – (a) Sensational Alex Harvey Band
  • SAIC – (i) Science Applications International Corporation
  • SALT
    • (a/i) (SALT) Alert; Emergency Contact System
    • (a) Southern African Large Telescope
    • Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
  • SAM
  • Sambo – (p/a) Samooborona bez oruzhiya (Russian: "Самооборона без оружия", literally "self-defense without weapons")
  • SAML – (a) Security Assertion Markup Language ("sam-ell")
  • SANZAAR – (a) South Africa, New Zealand, Australia and Argentina Rugby
  • san
    • (s) Sanskrit language (ISO 639-2 code)
    • (a) Storage Area Network
  • SAR
  • SARA
    • (a)
    • Scottish Amateur Rowing Association
    • Southern African Railway Association
    • State Administration for Religious Affairs
  • SARP – (a) Search And Rescue Processor
  • – (i/a) Search And Rescue Repeater
  • SARS – (a) Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
  • SART
    • (a) Search and Rescue Transponder
    • Situational Awareness Rating Technique
  • SARU – (i) South African Rugby Union
  • SAS
    • (i) Scandinavian Airlines System
    • Second Avenue Subway
    • Situational Awareness System
    • Special Air Service
    • Studies, Analysis and Simulation
    • Side Angle Side
    • (a) Statistical Analysis System (original meaning; SAS Institute Inc. has evolved far beyond that scope)
  • SASE – (i) Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope
  • SASO – (a) Stability and Support Operations
  • SASOL – (p) Suid Afrikaanse Steenkool en Oli.e. (Afrikaans, "South African Coal and Oil")
  • SAT
    • (i) formerly Scholastic Aptitude Test and Scholastic Assessment Test; now known solely by the initials
    • Small Arms Trainer
  • SATB – (i) Soprano Alto Tenor bass
  • – (p) Satellite Navigation (Increasingly common GPS based system in new vehicles)
  • SATs – (a) Standard Assessment Tasks and other similar terms describing tests used in English schools; see National Curriculum assessment#Terminology
  • SAU – (s) Saudi Arabia (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • SAVAK – (a) Sazamane Etelaat va Amniate Kechvar (Iranian "Security and Intelligence Service")
  • SAW
    • (i) ṣallā -llāhu ʿalayhī (wa-ʾālihī) wa-sallama (Arabic: صَلَّىٰ ٱللَّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِهِ وَسَلَّمَ, "God bless him [and his family] and grant him peace"), an honorific suffix within Islam for Muhammad
    • (a) Submerged arc welding
    • Squad Automatic Weapon
    • Surface acoustic wave
  • SAWE – (a) Society of Allied Weight Engineers
  • SAWS – (i) alternate form of the Islamic honorific suffix for Muhammad (see SAW)

SB[]

  • Sb – (s) Antimony (Latin Stibium)
  • SbA - Stibarsen, an alloy of antimony and arsenic
  • SB
    • (i) Sexy Bitch
    • Sexy Boy (disambiguation)
    • (s) Solomon Islands (ISO 3166 digram)
    • (i) Special Warfare Boat Operator
  • SBA
  • SBB – (i) German for the Swiss Federal Railways
  • SBC
  • – (p) U.S. Army Soldier and Biological Chemical Command (disbanded 2003)
  • SBCS – (i) Single-Byte Character Set
  • SBCT – (i) Stryker Brigade Combat Team
  • SBD
    • (s) Solomon Islands dollar (ISO 4217 currency code)
    • Silent But Deadly
  • SBP
  • SBS
    • (i) Special Boat Service
    • Special Broadcasting Service
    • Seoul Broadcasting System
    • (i) Sonny Bill Williams (New Zealand dual-code rugby player)

SC[]

  • sc – (s) Sardinian language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • Sc – (s) Scandium
  • SC
    • (s) Cruiser Submarine (US Navy hull classification) c Saint Kitts and Nevis (FIPS 10-4 country code; from Saint Christopher)
    • Seychelles (ISO 3166 digram)
    • South Carolina (postal symbol)
  • SCA
  • SCAP – (a) Supreme Commander Allied Powers (Allied occupation of Japan)
  • sccm – (s) Standard cubic centimetre per minute (unit of measurement of fluid flow)
  • sccs – (s) Standard cubic centimetre per second (unit of measurement of fluid flow)
  • – (s) Standard cubic foot per hour (unit of measurement of fluid flow)
  • scfm – (s) Standard cubic foot per minute (unit of measurement of fluid flow)
  • – (s) Standard cubic foot per second (unit of measurement of fluid flow)
  • SCG – (s) Serbia and Montenegro (ISO 3166 trigram; defunct since 2006)
  • – (i) Soldier Combat Helmet Identification Marking System
  • SCHIP – (a) State Children's Health Insurance Program (U.S.; often pronounced "ess-chip")
  • SciFi – Science Fiction
  • sCJD – (i) Sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
  • SCM – (i) Surface Contamination Module
  • SCMODS – (s) State, County, Municipal Offender Data System
  • SCN – (p) Suprachiasmatic Nucleus
  • SCNT – (i) Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer
  • SCO
    • (i) Santa Cruz Operation (initials later used by SCO Group)
    • (s) Scotland (FIFA trigram; not eligible for an ISO 3166 or IOC trigram)
    • (a) Shanghai Cooperation Organization
  • SCOTUS – (a) Supreme Court of the United States
  • SCR – (s) Seychelles rupee (ISO 4217 currency code)
  • SCRAM – (a) Safety Control Rod Axe Man
  • SCS
    • (i) Scan Correlated Shift
    • Soil Conservation Service
  • SCSI
    • (a) Small Computer System Interface ("scuzzy")
    • (i)
  • SCT – (s) Scattered Sky (METAR Code)
  • SCTP – (i) Stream Control Transmission Protocol
  • Scuba – (a) Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus
  • – Slow Continuous Ultrafiltration
  • SCUFN – (i) (of GEBCO)

SD[]

  • sd – (s) Sindhi language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • SD
  • SDC
    • (i) Shaft Driven Compressor
    • U.S. Army (1985–1992)
  • SDG – (s) Sudanese pound (ISO 4217 currency code)
  • SDG – (i)
  • SDH – (i) Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
  • SDHC – (i) Secure Digital High Capacity
  • SDI – see entry
  • SDN – (s) Sudan (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • SDO – (i) Scattered Disc Object
  • SDP – (i) Social Democratic Party (European politics)
  • SDR – (i) Strategic Defence Review
  • SDRAM – (i) Synchronous Dynamic Random-Access Memory ("ess-dee-ram")
  • SDS – (i) Students for a Democratic Society
  • SDSS – (i) Sloan Digital Sky Survey
  • SDXC – (p) Secure Digital eXtended Capacity

SE[]

  • se – (s) Northern Sami language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • Se – (s) Selenium
  • SE
    • (s) Seychelles (FIPS 10-4 country code)
    • (i) Societas Europaea (form of business organization in the EU)
    • South-east
    • (s) Sweden (ISO 3166 digram)
    • (i) Synthetic Environment
    • System Engineering
  • SEAD – (i) Suppression of Enemy Air Defence(s)
  • – (i) Senior Executioner of Approved Driving Instructors
  • SEAFDEC – (p) Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center
  • SEAL – (p) SEa-Air-Land
  • SEAT – (a) Sociedad Española de Automóviles de Turismo (Spanish for "Spanish Touring Car Company")
  • SEATO – (a) Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
  • SeaWiFS – (p) Sea-Viewing Wide Field of View Sensor (satellite instrument)
  • SEC
  • SECaaS - (p) Security-as-a-Service
  • SECAM – (a) Séquentiel couleur à mémoire (French for "Colour Sequential with Memory"; TV standard, cf. NTSC, PAL)
  • SECDEF – (p) (U.S.) Secretary of Defense
  • SED – (i) CERDEC Software Engineering Directorate
  • SEDRIS – (a) Synthetic Environment Data Representation and Interchange Specification
  • SEE – (a) Small Emplacement Excavator
  • SEG – (i) Society of Exploration Geophysicists
  • SEG – (i) Special Escort Group
  • SEK – (s) Swedish krona (ISO 4217 currency code)
  • Selkent – (p) South East London & Kent Bus Company
  • SELT – (a) Single Ended Line Test (ing)
  • SEM
    • (i/a) Sensor Employment Manager
    • Switch to Email Mode, i.e. stop texting as it is more disruptive by making a sound or vibrating and email instead, for a given time
  • SEN
  • SEP
    • (i) Somebody Else's Problem
    • Spherical Error Probable
    • System Enhancement Package
    • System Engineering Plan
  • SEPTA – (i) Southeastern Pennsylvania Rapid-Transit Authority
  • SERE – (i) Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape
  • – (a) Submarine Escape and Surface Survival Personnel Equipment
  • SET – (p) Staphylococcal EnteroToxin
  • SETI – (a) Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence
  • – (a) Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
  • SEU
    • (i) Single Event Upset (solid state physics)
    • Special Evidence Unit

SF[]

  • SF
    • (s) Fleet Submarine (retired US Navy hull classification)
    • (i) San Francisco
    • Science fiction
    • (s) South Africa (FIPS 10-4 country code)
    • (i) Speculative fiction
    • Special Forces
  • SFA
    • (i) Sales force automation
    • Saturated fatty acid
    • Scottish Football Association
    • Stephen F. Austin (State University)
    • Sudan Football Association
  • SFE
  • SFF – (i) Standard File Format
  • sf&f – (i) Science fiction & fantasy
  • SFM – Switch to Facebook Mode, i.e. to message someone on Facebook instead of texting as it is less disruptive in the sense of the phone not making sound or vibrating, for a period of time
  • – (i) Special Forces Operations Base
  • SFOR – (p) UN Stabilisation Force (in Bosnia and Herzegovina)
  • SFU – (i) Simon Fraser University (Canada)

SG[]

  • sg – (s) Sango language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • Sg – (s) Seaborgium
  • SG
    • (s) Senegal (FIPS 10-4 country code)
    • Singapore (ISO 3166 digram)
    • Snow Grains (METAR Code)
    • (i) Study Group
  • SGC
    • (i) Server Gated Cryptography
    • (p) Stargate Command
  • SGD – (s) Singapore dollar (ISO 4217 currency code)
  • SGML – (i) Standard Generalized Markup Language
  • SGP – (s) Singapore (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • SGS

SH[]

  • sh – (s) Serbo-Croatian language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • SH
    • (s) Saint Helena (ISO 3166 digram)
    • (p) SONATRACH (Algerian petroleum company)
  • SHAC
  • SHAPE – (a) Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe
  • SHF – (i) Super High Frequency
  • SHN – (s) Saint Helena (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • SHO – (a) Showtime (see also sho.com)
  • – (a)
  • SHORAD – (p) Short Range Air Defence
  • – (p) SHORAD Engagement Zone
  • SHP – (s) Saint Helena pound (ISO 4217 currency code)
  • SHRA – (s) Rain Showers (METAR Code)
  • – (s) Snow Showers (METAR Code)

SI[]

SJ[]

  • SJ
    • (s) Svalbard and Jan Mayen (ISO 3166 digram)
    • (i) Societas Iesu (Latin: The Society of Jesus, the Jesuit order)
    • (i) Statens Järnvägar (Swedish State Railways)
  • SJA – (i) Staff Judge Advocate (military law)
  • SJC – (i) Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (note: the highest court in the state of Maine is also called the Supreme Judicial Court)
  • SJM – (s) Svalbard and Jan Mayen (ISO 3166 trigram)

SK[]

  • sk – (s) Slovak language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • SK
    • (s) Saskatchewan (postal symbol)
    • Slovakia (ISO 3166 digram)
  • SKC – (s) Clear Sky (METAR Code)
  • SKK – (s) Slovak koruna (ISO 4217 currency code)
  • SKM – (s) Sikkim (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1975)
  • SKU - (i) Stock Keeping Unit

SL[]

  • sl – (s) Slovene language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • SL
    • (s) Sierra Leone (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
    • (i) Start Line
  • SLA
    • (i) Service Level Agreement
    • Symbionese Liberation Army
  • SLAA – (i) Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous
  • SLAC – (a) Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
  • – (i) sine loco, anno, nomine (Latin, "without place, year, or name")
  • SLAPP – (a) Strategic lawsuit against public participation
  • SLB – (s) Solomon Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • SLBM – (i) Sea/Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile
  • SLC – (i) Scan Line Corrector
  • SLE – (s) Sierra Leone (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • SLI/SLi
  • – (p) SubLingual ImmunoTherapy
  • – (s) Slovak language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • SLL – (s) Sierra Leone leone (ISO 4217 currency code)
  • SLO – (s) Slovenia (IOC trigram, but not FIFA or ISO 3166)
  • SLOC
    • (a) Sea Lines Of Communication
    • Source Lines Of Code
  • SLORC – (a) State Law and Order Restoration Council (of Burma)
  • SLP
    • (i) Sea Level Pressure
    • (i) Super Long Play
  • slph – (s) Standard litre per hour (air flow)
  • slpm – (s) Standard litre per minute (air flow)
  • slps – (s) Standard litre per second (air flow)
  • SLR – (i) Single-Lens Reflex (camera)
  • SLT
    • (i) Single Lens Translucent
    • (i) Speech and language therapist
    • (i) Solid Logic Technology (electronics)
    • Swing Landing Trainer (paratroops)
    • (i)
  • slv – (s) Slovenian language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • SLV – (s) El Salvador (ISO 3166 trigram)

SM[]

  • sm – (s) Samoan language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • Sm – (s) Samarium
  • SM
    • (i) Sado-Masochism
    • (s) San Marino (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
    • (i) Soldier's Manual
    • (s) Submarine Minelayer (US Navy hull classification)
  • SMA – (i) Scan Mirror Assembly
  • SMART – (a) Subject Matter And Requirements Team
  • SMART – (a) Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology
  • SMASS – (a) Small Main-Belt Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey
  • – (i) Soldier's Manual of Common Tasks
  • SMD – (i) Surface Mount Device
  • SMDR – (i) Station Message Detail Recording
  • – (s) Northern Sami language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • SME
    • (i) Scan Mirror Electronics
    • Subject Matter Expert
  • SMG
    • (i) Sequential Motorsport Gearbox
    • SubMachine Gun
  • SMH – (a) Shaking My Head
  • SMil – (a) Sadomasochisterne i landet (Danish SM organisation)
  • SMIL – (a) Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
  • smo – (s) Samoan language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • SMP – (i) Standard Military Pattern
  • SM&R – (i) Source, Maintenance, and Recoverability
  • SMR – (s) San Marino (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • SMS – many, including: Short message service; see entry
  • SMTP – (i) Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
  • SMU – (i) Southern Methodist University
  • SMX
  • SMZ
    • many, including: (i) Silver Mt. Zion
    • (p) Sulfamethazine
    • (p) Sulfamethoxazole; see entry

SN[]

  • sn – (s) Shona language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • Sn – (s) Tin (Latin Stannum)
  • SN
    • (s) Senegal (ISO 3166 digram)
    • Singapore (FIPS 10-4 country code)
    • Snow (METAR Code)
    • SuperNova
  • sna – (s) Shona language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • SNAFU – (a) "Situation Normal — All Fouled/Fucked Up"
  • SNAP – (p) Supernova/Acceleration Probe
  • SNCB – (i) Société nationale des chemins de fer de Belgique (French for "Belgian Railways National Society", NMBS in Dutch)
  • SNCF – (i) Société nationale des chemins de fer français (French for "French Railways National Society")
  • snd – (s) Sindhi language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • SND – (i) Standard Nomenclature Database
  • SNE – (i) Synthetic Natural Environment
  • SNES – Super Nintendo Entertainment System
  • SNÉTA – (a) Syndicat national pour l'étude des transports aériens (French for "Aerial transport Study National Syndicate", 1919–1923)
  • SNG – (i) Satellite News Gathering (television)
  • SNL
  • SNM – (i) Special Nuclear Material
  • SNMP – (i) Simple Network Management Protocol
  • SNOBOL – (p) StriNg Oriented symBOlic Language
  • SNP – (i) Single-nucleotide polymorphism
  • SNR
    • (i) SuperNova Remnant
    • Signal-to-Noise Ratio
  • SNRI – (i) Serotonin-Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitor
  • SNS – (i) Spallation Neutron Source
  • SNU – (i) Solar Neutrino Unit

SO[]

  • so – (s) Somali language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • SO
  • SOA
  • SOAP
    • (a) Simple Object Access Protocol
    • Supplemental Offer and Acceptance Program (U.S. medical residency matching)
  • SOB
    • (i) Son Of a Bitch
    • Same Old Bullshit
  • SOC – (a) Sector Operations Centre
  • Soccsksargen – (p) South Cotabato, Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, Sarangani, General Santos (a region in the Philippines; pronounced "sock-sar-gen")
  • SOCOM – (p) (U.S.) Special Operations Command
  • SoCon – (p) Southern Conference (U.S. college sports)
  • SOD
    • (i/a) School Of Dentistry
    • Statement Of Difference(s)
    • Statement Of Direction
    • Statement Of Documentation
    • Statement Of Duty/Duties
  • SOE
    • (i) Secret Of Evermore
    • Special Operations Executive (WWII British organization)
    • State Of Emissions (EW)
  • SOF
    • (a/i) Special Operations Force(s)
    • Status of Forces
  • SOFIA – (a) Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy
  • SOGAT
  • SOHC – (i) Single-OverHead-Cam engine
  • SOHO – (p) Solar and Heliospheric Observatory
  • SOI – (i) Signal Operating Instruction
  • SOL – (i) Shit Out of Luck
  • – (i) Synoptic Optical Long-term Investigations of the Sun
  • som – (s) Somali language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • SOM
    • (a) Simulation Object Model
    • (s) Somalia (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • Sonar – (p) SOund Navigation And Ranging
  • SOP
    • (i) Standing/Standard Operating Procedure
    • State of Play
  • SOR
    • (i) State Of Readiness
    • Statement Of Requirements
  • SOS
    • (s) Somali shilling (ISO 4217 currency code)
    • Save Our Souls
  • – (a) Stand-Off Surveillance and Target Acquisition Radar
  • sot – (s) Sotho language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • – (p) Southern Army Group
  • SOUTHCOM – (p) (U.S.) Southern Command
  • SOV – (i) Single Occupant Vehicle
  • SOW – (i) Statement Of Work
  • – (p) RESNA Subcommittee on Wheelchairs and Transportation
  • – (p) Sarbanes–Oxley Act

SP[]

  • Sp
    • (p) Special
    • Spring tide (nautical charts)
    • (i) sine prole (Latin, "without offspring")
  • SP
    • (i) Security Police
    • Self-Propelled
    • Shore Patrol
    • (s) Spain (FIPS 10-4 country code)
    • (i) Start Point
    • Strong Point
  • spa – (s) Spanish language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • SPA - Single Page Application
  • SPAAG – (a) Self-Propelled Anti-Aircraft Gun
  • SPAC - Saratoga Performing Arts Center
  • SPACECOM – (p) (U.S.) Space Command
  • SPAL – (a) Società Polisportiva Ars et Labor ("Art & Labor Sports Club", with the "SP" from Italian and "AL" from Latin), Italian football club
  • Spaser – (a) Surface plasmon amplification by stimulated emission of radiation
  • SPC – (i) Secretariat of the Pacific Community
  • SPCA - Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
  • SPCO – (i) Single-Pole Change Over
  • SPD
  • SPDT – (i) Single-Pole Double-Throw
  • – (a) (later became SPEAK)
  • SPECTRE – SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion
  • S.P.E.A.R. - Spontaneous Protection Enabling Accelerated Response
  • SPEED – (a) (early military microwave oven)
  • SPIE – (i) originally the Society for Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers ("SPIE – The International Society for Optical Engineering" 1981–2007, "SPIE" since 2007)
  • SPL
  • SPM – (s) Saint Pierre and Miquelon (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • SPOD – (a/i) Sea Port of Debarkation
  • SPOE – (a/i) Sea Port of Embarkation
  • SPOT – (a) Satellite pour l'observation de la Terre (French, "Satellite for Earth Observation")
  • SPQR – (i) Senatus Populusque Romanus (Latin "The Senate and the People of Rome")
  • sps – (i) sine prole superstite (Latin, "without surviving issue")
  • SPS – (i) Standard Positioning Service (GPS)
  • SPST – (i) Single-Pole Single-Throw

SQ[]

  • sq – (s) Albanian language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • SQ – (i) Sound Quality
  • SQ – (i) Standard Quality
  • – (s) Albanian language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • SQL – (i/a) Structured Query Language ("seek-well")
  • SQS - Amazon Simple Queue Service
  • SQUID – (p) Superconducting QUantum Interference Device
  • SQOR – (p) Succinate:Quinone OxidoReductase, enzyme superfamily including quinone-linked succinate dehydrogenase and fumarate reductase

SR[]

  • sr – (s) Serbian language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • Sr – (s) Strontium
  • SR
    • (i) Sound Reinforcement
    • Supply Route
    • (s) Suriname (ISO 3166 digram)
    • (i) Sveriges Radio (Swedish Radio Ltd)
  • SR – (i) Sustained release of a drug
  • SRAM
    • (p) Scott (King), Ray (Day), SAM (Patterson) — founders of bicycle component manufacturer SRAM Corporation
    • (p) Static Random Access Memory ("ess-ram")
  • SR-ATGW – (i) Short-Range Anti-Tank Guided Weapon
  • SRB – (i) Solid Rocket Booster
  • SRBM – (i) Short-Range Ballistic Missile (cf. IRBM, ICBM)
  • SRC – (i) Scheduled Removal Component
  • srd – (s) Sardinian language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • SRD
    • (i) Science Requirements Document
    • (s) Surinam dollar (ISO 4217 currency code)
  • SREL – (i) Savannah River Ecology Laboratory
  • SRG
    • (i) SACEUR Rover Group
    • Special Republican Guard
  • – (i) Short-Range Guided Weapon
  • SRL
    • (i) Savannah River Laboratory
    • Single Rocket Launcher
    • Survival Research Labs
  • SRM – (i) Specified Risk Material(s)
  • srp – (s) Serbian language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • SRS – (i) Savannah River Site
  • SRSP – (i) Science and Religion in Schools Project
  • SRTP – (i) [Secure Real-time Transport Protocol]

SS[]

  • ss – (s) Swati language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • SS
    • (s) Sand Storm (METAR Code)
    • (p) Schutzstaffel (German, roughly "Protection Squadron"; Nazi elite Praetorian guard)
    • (i) U.S. Secret Service
    • Spanish Ship
    • Stainless steel
    • (s) Submarine (US Navy hull classification)
    • (i) Super Sport
    • Surface-to-Surface (missile)
  • SSA
    • (s) Cargo Submarine (US Navy hull classification)
    • (i) Social Security Administration (U.S.)
    • Statistics South Africa
  • SSB – (a) Single-sideband modulation
  • SSB – (i)
  • SSBN – (s) Nuclear-Powered Ballistic Missile Submarine (US Navy hull classification)
  • SSC
    • (i) Safe, Sane, Consensual (SM phrase)
    • Secondary Somatosensory Cortex
    • Smaller-Scale Contingency
    • U.S. Army (Natick, Massachusetts)
    • Superconducting Super Collider
  • SSCCATAGAPP – Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples, And Teens And Gays Against Parasitic Parents (fictional organization from The Simpsons)
  • SSD
    • (i) Solid-state drive
    • (s) South Sudan (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • SSDC – (i) U.S. Space and Strategic Defense Command
  • SSDD
    • (i) Same Shit, Different Day
    • Single-Sided Double-Density (floppy disk)
  • SSE
  • SSG – (s) Guided Missile Submarine (retired US Navy hull classification)
  • SSGN – (s) Nuclear-Powered Guided Missile Submarine (US Navy hull classification)
  • SSH – (i) Saffir-Simpson Hurricane scale
  • SSK – (s) Hunter-Killer Submarine (retired US Navy hull classification)
  • – (i) Single-Shot Kill Probability
  • SSL – (i) Secure Sockets Layer
  • SSM – (i) Surface-to-Surface (Guided) Missile
  • SSN
    • (s) Nuclear-Powered Attack Submarine (US Navy hull classification)
    • (i) SIM Serial Number
    • Social Security Number (U.S.)
    • Socialist Solidarity Network
    • Subsystem number (SCCP, SS7)
  • – (i) Same Shit, New Wrapping
  • SSO – (s) Submarine Oiler (retired US Navy hull classification)
  • SSP – (s) Submarine Transport (retired US Navy hull classification)
  • SSR
    • (s) Radar Picket Submarine (retired US Navy hull classification)
    • (i) Solid State Recorder
  • SSRI
    • (i) Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor
  • SSRN
  • SSS
  • S/SSM – (i) Surface-to-Subsurface Missile
  • SST
    • (i) SuperSonic Transport
    • (s) Training Submarine (US Navy hull classification)
    • Saturated Suction Temperature (refrigeration cycles)
  • SSTO – (i) Single-Stage To Orbit
  • SSV – (i) Soft-Skinned Vehicle (i.e., unarmoured)
  • ssw – (s) Swati language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • SSW – (s) South South-West

ST[]

  • st – (s) Sotho language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • ST
  • STA
    • (i) Scheduled Time of Arrival
    • Surveillance and Target Acquisition
  • STAG – (a) (U.S.) Strategy and Tactics Group
  • – (a) Scenario Toolkit And Generation Environment
  • STANAG – (p) (NATO) Standardisation Agreement
  • STAR
    • (a) Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports (NASA)
    • Simulation of Tactical Alternative Responses
    • Special Threat Analysis and Recognition
  • STAT
    • (a) Signal Transducers and Activators of Transcription (cell biology)
    • Special Tertiary Admissions Test (Australia)
  • STB - Surface Transportation Board[2]
  • STC – (i) Superior Temporal Cortex
  • – (i) CERDEC Space and Terrestrial Communications Directorate
  • STD
  • STDM – (i) Statistical Time Division Multiplexing
  • STEM
  • – (p) Satellite de télécommunications pour expérimenter de nouvelles technologies en orbite (French, "Orbital New Technology Experimental Telecommunications Satellite")
  • STFU
    • (i) Southern Tenant Farmers Union
    • Stuff You[citation needed]
    • "Shut the fuck up!"'
  • STH – Sonic The Hedgehog
  • STI
  • STK – (i) Satellite Tool Kit
  • STM – (i) Short Term Memory
  • STOL – (i) Short Take-Off and Landing
  • STOVL – (i) Short Take-Off and Vertical Landing
  • STP
  • STR – (i) Short Tandem Repeat (DNA analysis)
  • STRATCOM – (p) United States Strategic Command
  • STRICOM
    • (p) U.S. Army (1992–)
    • Strike Command (1962–1971)
  • – (a)
  • – (i)
  • Stuka – (p) Sturzkampfflugzeug (German WWII dive bomber)

SU[]

  • su – (s) Sundanese language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • SU
    • (s) Soviet Union (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1992)
    • Sudan (FIPS 10-4 country code)
  • SUB – (i) Student Union Building
  • – (a) Subject under Discussion
  • SUDC – Swedish United Dawah Center, a salafist Islamic organisation in Sweden
  • SUI
  • – Start Up Kit
  • sun – (s) Sundanese language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • SUN – (s)
  • SUNY – (a) State University of New York (usually pronounced "sue-knee")
  • SUR – (s) Suriname (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • SURTASS – (p) Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System
  • SUSAT – (a)
  • SUV – (i) Sport Utility Vehicle

SV[]

  • sv – (s) Swedish language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • SV
    • (s) El Salvador (ISO 3166 digram)
    • (p) Sportverein (German for "Sport Association", as in Hamburger SV and SV Werder Bremen)
  • SVC – (i) Secondary Visual Cortex
  • SvD – (p) Svenska Dagbladet (Swedish newspaper)
  • SVD
    • (i) Singular Value Decomposition
    • Snaiperskaya Vintovka Dragunova (Снайперская винтовка Драгунова, Russian for "Dragunov Sniper Rifle")
  • – (i) Scalable Vector Graphics
  • SVK – (s) Slovakia (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • SVM
    • (p) Stroboscopic effect Visibility Measure; a measure for assessing a type of temporal light artefacts
    • (i) Support Vector Machine (artificial intelligence)
  • SVN – (s) Slovenia (ISO 3166 and FIFA trigram)
  • SVO – (i) subject–verb–object
  • SVR – (i) Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki (Служба Внешней Разведки, Russian for "Foreign Intelligence Service")

SW[]

  • sw – (s) Swahili language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • SW
    • (s) South-West ordinal direction
    • Sweden (FIPS 10-4 country code)
    • (a) Shortwave
    • Star Wars
  • swa – (s) Swahili language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • SWA
    • (i/a) Secure Web Access
    • South-West Asia
  • SWAC – (p) Southwestern Athletic Conference
  • SWALK – (a) Sealed With A Loving Kiss
  • SWAN – (a)
  • SWAP – (a)
  • SWAPO – (a) South-West Africa People's Organisation
  • SWAT – (a) Special Weapons And Tactics
  • swe – (s) Swedish language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • SWE – (s) Sweden (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • SWF
    • (p) Shockwave Flash file ("swiff")
    • Single White Female
  • SWG
    • (i) Surface Warfare Group
    • Symbology Working Group
  • – (i) Society for Women's Health Research
  • SWIG – (a) Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator
  • SWIR – (a/i) Short Wave InfraRed ("ss-why-are" or "swhirr")
  • SWLABR – (i) "She Was Like A Bearded Rainbow", a song by the band Cream
  • SWORD – (p) Subjective WORkload Dominance
  • SWORDS – (a) Special Weapons Observation Reconnaissance Detection System
  • SWOT – (a) Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats (mnemonic)
  • SWP
    • (i) Special Working Party ("swipp")
    • (a plan of periodic westing of shares or mutual funds worth a fixed amount of money)
    • Skill with prize (UK pub quiz machines — quality titles include: , , , )
  • SWT – (i) Sea Water Tank
  • SWV – (i) Sisters With Voices (American female R&B vocal group)
  • SWZ – (s) Swaziland (ISO 3166 trigram)

SX[]

SY[]

  • SY – (s) Syria (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
  • SYC – (s) Seychelles (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • SYLK – Microsoft 'Symbolic Link' data file format
  • SYP – (s) Syrian pound (ISO 4217 currency code)
  • SYR – (s) Syria (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • Syriza – (p) Synaspismós Rizospastikís Aristerás (Greek Συνασπισμός Ριζοσπαστικής Αριστεράς, "Coalition of the Radical Left")
  • SysML – (p) System Modeling Language
  • Sysop – (p) System Operator

SZ[]

  • SZ
    • (s) Swaziland (ISO 3166 digram)
    • Switzerland (FIPS 10-4 country code)
  • SZL – (s) Swaziland lilangeni (ISO 4217 currency code)

References[]

  1. ^ Society of Automotive Engineers
  2. ^ Replaced Interstate Commerce Commission on January 1st, 1996
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