SO - Science and Technology

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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