Science and Technology
- Science Operations Centre, a center of the European Space Agency
- Second order condition, a mathematical condition that distinguishes maxima and minima from other stationary points
- Security operations center, in an organization, a centralized unit that deals with security issues
- Security operations center (computing), in an organization, a centralized unit that deals with computer security issues
- Selectable output control
- Self-organized criticality, a property of dynamical systems in physics
- Semivolatile Organic Compound, in chemistry
- Separation of concerns, a program design principle in computer science
- Service Operation Center, in telecommunications
- Service-oriented Communications
- Service-oriented computing, another term for Service-oriented architecture
- Soil organic carbon, see Soil carbon
- Specialized Oceanographic Center, a center of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Spectrum Operations Committee, a Stanford University independent research center with the goal of accelerating and enhancing medical research, from basic discovery to improved patient care
- State of charge, for batteries
- Store-Operated Calcium channel
- Super Optimal Broth with Catabolite repression, a bacterial growth medium
- Superior olivary complex
- System on chip, in electronic design
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