SAR

SAR or Sar may refer to:

Organizations

• SAR Records, an American record labels
• Scholars at Risk, a network of academic institutions organized to support academic freedom
• School for Advanced Research, an anthropological/archaeological research center in Santa Fe, New Mexico
• Sigma Alpha Rho, a high school fraternity, in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Sons of the American Revolution, a genealogically-based community service organization
• SAR Academy, a modern Orthodox yeshiva in Riverdale, New York
• SAR High School, the high school of SAR Academy

Railways

• South African Railways, a former state-controlled rail transport company in South Africa
• South Australian Railways, a former railways operator in South Australia
• Saudi Railway Company, a railway company in Saudi Arabia
• Savage Alberta Railway, a former short line railway in Alberta, Canada

Science and technology

• Sodium Adsorption Ratio, a measure of the suitability of water for agricultural irrigation
• Sulfuric Acid Recovery (or Regeneration), a common hydrocarbon processing application
• Synthetic Aperture Radar, an active microwave remote sensing technology
• Successive Approximation Register
• SAR-21 (Singapore Assault Rifle - 21st century), used by the Singapore army
• SAR-87, the Sterling Assault Rifle - 1987
• Semi-automatic rifle, a type of rifle
• Submarine Advanced Reactor, naval nuclear reactor, developed for radar picket submarine Triton
• IPCC Second Assessment Report
• Sar (astronomy), a period of 9 years 5 days, used to predict eclipses

Medicine, psychology, and biology

• SAR supergroup (taxonomy), a proposed supergroup containing the Chromalveolata and the Rhizaria, standing for the three largest groups within these: Stramenopiles, Alveolata, Rhizaria
• SAR11 (microbiology), a naming convention for uncultured bacteria first found in the Sargasso Sea
• S/MAR, a scaffold attachment region
• Seasonal allergic rhinitis
• Sexual Attitude Reassessment
• Specific absorption rate, a measure of the rate at which RF-energy is absorbed by the human body
• Structure-activity relationship, in pharmacology, medicinal and computational chemistry
• Systemic acquired resistance, a "whole-plant" resistance response that occurs following an earlier localized exposure to a pathogen
• Species at Risk, any plant or animal species in danger of becoming extinct or disappearing from a certain area

Computers

• Search and Replace, a feature of text editors
• Segmentation and Reassembly of data packets in a computer network
• Service Archive (.sar), a file format for the JBoss Java application server computer program
• sar (Unix), a Unix/Linux command to display various system loads
• Storage Aspect Ratio of a digital image

Law enforcement

• Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting Initiative
• Suspicious activity report (banking), filed with the U.S. government by financial institutions
• Suspicious Activity Report (justice and homeland security), filed with local and federal law enforcement agencies to prevent crime and terrorism

Business

• Saudi riyal, the ISO 4217 currency code
• South African rand, officially ZAR but often written as SAR
• Parabolic SAR Stop and Reverse indicator, used in technical analysis stock analysis
• Stock Appreciation Right, a method of rewarding employees

Places

• Sar (river) in Galicia, Spain
• Šar Mountains, a mountain range in southeastern Europe
• Sar, Tibet, a village
• Sar, Bahrain, a residential district
• Edwin van der Sar, a Dutch international association football goalkeeper
• South African Republic (Transvaal Republic)
• Syrian Arab Republic
• Special Administrative Region

Other uses

• Student Aid Report, sent to applicants of US federal financial aid for college
• Sample of Anonymised Records, based on the UK Population Census
• Search and rescue, sometimes "Sea Air Rescue", search for and provision of aid to people who are in distress or imminent danger

See also

• Saar (disambiguation)
• SARS