Science & Technology
- SOM, a cruise missile of the Turkish Air Force
- Seine-Oise-Marne culture, name given by archaeologists to an ancient culture in northern France
- Self-organizing map, a type of artificial neural network in machine learning, also called Kohonen network.
- Service-Oriented Modeling, a service-oriented architecture modeling methology
- Services over the Messenger, a services who use messenger protocols (like XMPP)
- Simulation Object Model, a document describing a component within the High Level Architecture (simulation)
- Soil Organic Matter, organic compounds within the mineral soil without living roots and animals
- Start of Message (or Media), a Time Code signal used in the broadcasting industry
- State of matter, states of which matter can form i.e. solid, liquid, gas, plasma and Bose-Einstein condensate
- Supporting Online Material, a phrase referring to supplementary material that can be accessed through the website of the publisher
- IBM System Object Model, an object-oriented shared library most widely used in OS/2
- System Object Model (file format), an executable file format used by the HP-UX operating system for the PA-RISC platform
- System on module (SoM), a type of computer hardware device used in embedded systems
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