Sam - Science and Technology

Science and Technology

• SAm, in astrophysics, the de Vaucouleurs code for an unbarred one-armed Magellanic spiral galaxy
• S-Adenosyl methionine, a common co-substrate involved in methyl group transfers
• Scanning acoustic microscope, a device using focused sound to investigate, measure, or image an object
• Scanning Auger microscope, a device to image the surface using Auger electron spectroscopy
• Self-assembled monolayer, an organized layer of amphiphilic molecules
• Shoot apical meristem, a tissue in plant cells
• Significance analysis of microarrays, a permutation-based method to estimate the false discovery rate in microarray analysis
• Simulation for Automatic Machinery, two minicomputers
• Small article monitor, a monitoring device designed to screen small items for radioactive contamination
• Southern Annular Mode, a mode of atmospheric variability of the southern hemisphere
• Sparse Anti-Magic square, in mathematics, another name for an Antimagic square
• Swinging Atwood's machine, a mechanism that resembles a simple Atwood's machine
• Systolic anterior motion of the mitral valve, in cardiac medicine
• Sample Analysis at Mars, an instrument abord the Curiosity rover on Mars