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Sas or SAS may refer to:
Military special forces
- Special Air Service, the principal special forces unit of the British Army
- Australian Special Air Service Regiment (SASR), an Australian regiment derived from the British Army regiment
- New Zealand Special Air Service (1 NZSAS Group), a New Zealand unit derived from the British Army regiment
- Rhodesian Special Air Service (disbanded in 1980)
- Special Air Service, a unit within the Zimbabwe Special Forces
- French SAS: Predecessor units of the French Army's 1st Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment (1er RPIMa)
- Canadian Special Air Service Company: short-lived post-war Company (not Squadron), 1947-1949.
- Su Altı Savunma, a special operations unit of the Turkish Navy
Other military
- During the Algerian War, the French army civil-military cooperation units in Algeria were called SAS (Special Administrative Sections)
- The South African Navy's ship prefix is SAS for South African Ship
Geography
- Sas van Gent, the Netherlands
History
- Sas (coat of arms), a Polish coat of arms
- Sas of Moldavia, a Voivode ruling over the lands of what was to become Moldavia between 1354-1358
Science and technology
Astronomy and space exploration
- Small Astronomy Satellite, a series of NASA satellites
- Uhuru (satellite), also known as SAS-1
- SAS-2, or Second Small Astronomy Satellite
- SAS-3, or Third Small Astronomy Satellite
- Space activity suit, a spacesuit which provides mechanical pressure by means of elastic garments
- Space adaptation syndrome, an illness akin to motion sickness experienced by many first-time space travelers
Computing
- SAS (software), an integrated software suite produced by SAS Institute Inc.
- Secure Attention Sequence or secure attention key, a method to invoke a computer operating system's attention, usually signaling it to show the log on screen
- Serial Attached SCSI, a computer bus technology primarily designed for the transfer of data to and from storage devices and drives (e.g., hard disks)
- Spatially Aware Sublayer, an optional sublayer of the MAC that provides spatial reuse in Resilient Packet Ring
- Standalone server
- SUPERAntiSpyware, software application for detecting and removing spyware, adware, malware, trojans, rogue software, worms, rootkits, parasites and other potentially harmful software applications
- Safety Analysis System (SAS), a computer code developed at the Argonne National Laboratory
- Server Attached Storage
Mathematics
- Side-angle-side, a concept in geometry for determining congruence or similarity of triangles. See solution of triangles.
Other uses in science and technology
- Self-anchored suspension bridge
- Sleep apnea syndrome
- Slot Accounting System protocol, a slot machine communication method created by the International Game Technology (IGT) corporation
- Small-angle scattering, a scattering technique based on the deflection of a beam of particles away from the straight trajectory after it interacts with a sample
- Solvent-accessible surface or accessible surface area, the surface area of a biomolecule that is accessible to a solvent
- Subarachnoid space, the space between the arachnoid mater and pia mater in the brain
- Synthetic aperture sonar, a form of sonar analogous to synthetic aperture radar
- Subvalvular aortic stenosis
- secondary air injection system in motorcycles
Academic organizations
- School of Advanced Study, a listed organization of the University of London with ten member institutes
- School for Advanced Studies, a dual-enrollment high school program in Miami, Florida
- Semester at Sea, a shipboard academic program administered by the University of Virginia
- Sekolah Alam Shah, a premier boarding school in Malaysia
- Shanghai American School, an international school in Shanghai
- Singapore American School, an international school in Singapore
- Slovak Academy of Sciences, the main scientific and research institution in Slovakia fostering basic and strategic basic research
- Society for Amateur Scientists, an American organisation
- Space Access Society, an organization dedicated to increasing the viability and reducing the cost of commercial access to space travel
- Studia Academica Slovaca, a summer school teaching the Slovak language
- Society for Animation Studies, an international scholarly organisation
- St. Augustine's School, a school in Kalimpong, West Bengal, India
- Strong American Schools, the nonprofit running "ED in 08," an information and advocacy campaign aimed at bringing education reform to the forefront of the 2008 presidential candidates' campaign policies
- Sussex Archaeological Society
- Sense About Science, a UK body promoting respect for good science
Business
- SAS (TV station), a television station in Adelaide, South Australia
- SAS Institute Inc., a large software company headquartered in North Carolina
- SAS Group, Scandinavian Airlines System Group, an airline company in Europe, based in Stockholm, Sweden
- Scandinavian Airlines System, an airline company in Denmark, Norway and Sweden
- SAS Cargo Group, a cargo company in North Europe
- SAS Shoemakers, a shoe company in Texas
- Société par actions simplifiée, a type of French limited company
- Statements on Auditing Standards, a series of internationally recognized auditing standards
- Statement on Auditing Standards No. 70: Service Organizations or SAS 70, defines the professional standards used by a service auditor
- Statement on Auditing Standards No. 99: Consideration of Fraud or SAS 99, defines the professional standards used by auditors in relation to fraud
- Surfers Against Sewage, UK-based environmental campaign group
- Southern Audio Services, also known as Bazooka Audio
Music and literature
- Southern All Stars, a Japanese rock band
- Stubborn All-Stars, a ska band from New York
- Stretch Arm Strong, a band from South Carolina
- Son Altesse Sérénissime, a French book series by Gérard de Villiers
Transport
- Second Avenue Subway, a new subway line in New York City
- The IATA airport code for Salton Sea Airport
- Scandinavian Airlines System, an airline serving the Nordic States
Sports
- San Antonio Spurs, NBA basketball team
Politics
- Sloboda a Solidarita, a conservative liberal political party in Slovakia
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