Science and Technology
- SO, SO alias for SOIC chip "package"
- .so, a filename extension for a shared object (a dynamic library or module) in Unix and GNU/Linux
- Science Olympiad, a primarily American elementary, middle school, or high school team competition that requires knowledge of various science topics and engineering ability
- Service cable/cord, Oil-resistant, a type of power cord
- Shift Out, an ASCII control character in computing
- SO(4), a term used in mathematics, the group of rotations about a fixed point in four-dimensional Euclidean space
- SO(5), a term used in mathematics, the special orthogonal group of degree 5 over the field R of real numbers
- SO(8),a term used in mathematics, the special orthogonal group acting on eight-dimensional Euclidean space
- SO(10) (physics), a term used in particle physics, one of the grand unified theories is based on the SO(10) Lie group
- Special orthogonal group, a subset of an orthogonal group
- StarOffice, a commercial package of office software produced by Sun Microsystems
- Sulfur monoxide, a compound with the chemical formula SO
- Service orientation, a set of design principles in software engineering
- Second-order logic
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