List of Acronyms and Initialisms: S - SA

SA

  • sa — (s) Sanskrit language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • SA
    • (s) Sand (METAR Code)
    • Saudi Arabia (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
    • (i) Sexaholics Anonymous
    • (i) sine anno (Latin, “without year”)
    • Situational awareness
    • South Africa
    • (i/s) South Australia (postal symbol)
    • (i) Standards Australia
    • Sturmabteilung (German, “Storm Detachment”, Nazi forerunner and rival of SS)
  • SAA
    • (i) Saudi Arabian Airlines, former name of Saudia
    • Sex Addicts Anonymous
    • South African Airways
    • Southern Athletic Association
    • Standards Association of Australia, a former name of Standards Australia
  • SAAB — (a) Svenska Aeroplan AB (Swedish aircraft manufacturer; also refers to its former auto manufacturing arm)
  • SAAFR — (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
    • (a) Standards Activity Committee (of SISO)
    • U.S. Strategic Air Command (1946–1992)
  • SACAT — (a) Semi Attended Customer Activated Terminal (Supermarket checkout)
  • SACEUR — (p) Supreme Allied Commander EURope
  • SACLANT — (p) Supreme Allied Commander atLANTic
  • SACLOS — (a) Semi-Automatic Command to Line of Sight
  • SAD
    • (a) Seasonal Affective Disorder
    • Situational Awareness Display
  • 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
  • SAE
    • (i) Society of Automotive Engineers
    • Stamped addressed envelope
  • SAFER — (a) Steel And Foam Energy Reduction
  • SAFICT — (a) Software Agents as Facilitators of Interoperability in Collective Training
  • sag — (s) Sango language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • SAG — (i) Screen Actors Guild
  • SAGAT — (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) Save A Life Today (SALT) Alert; Emergency Contact System
    • (a) Southern African Large Telescope
    • Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
  • SAM
    • (a) Sequential-Access Memory
    • Sociedad Aeronáutica de Medellín
    • Surface-to-Air Missile
  • Sambo – (p/a) Samooborona bez oruzhiya (Russian: "Самооборона без оружия", literally "self-defense without weapons")
  • SAML — (a) Security Assertion Markup Language (“sam-ell”)
  • SANZAR — (a) South Africa, New Zealand, and Australia Rugby
  • san
    • (s) Sanskrit language (ISO 639-2 code)
    • (a) Storage Area Network
  • SAR
    • (s) Saudi riyal (ISO 4217 currency code)
    • (a) Search And Rescue
    • Special Administrative Region
    • Synthetic Aperture Radar
  • SARA
    • (a) Southeastern Association for Research in Astronomy
    • Scientific Atlanta Resident Application
    • Scottish Amateur Rowing Association
    • Southern African Railway Association
    • State Administration for Religious Affairs
  • SARP — (a) Search And Rescue Processor
  • SARR — (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 Airline Systems
    • 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
  • SATNAV — (p) Satellite Navigation (Increasingly common GPS based system in new vehicles)
  • SAU — (s) Saudi Arabia (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • SAVAK — (a) Sazamane Etelaat va Amniate Kechvar (Iranian “Security and Intelligence Service”)
  • SAW
    • (a) Squad Automatic Weapon
    • Surface acoustic wave
  • SAWE — (a) Society of Allied Weight Engineers

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