Sans

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Sans or SANS may refer to:

  • Sans, (play /ˈsænz/; French: [sɑ̃]) is a French preposition meaning "without", and is used in the same sense in English[1].
    • Sans-serif (without serifs), in typography, a typeface that does not have the small features called "serifs" at the end of strokes that make up letters and symbols
    • Sans-culottes (without knee-breeches) or Sansculottism, a term created 1790-1792 by the French aristocracy to describe the poorer members of the Third Estate
    • Sans Famille (without family), an 1878 French novel by Hector Malot in the vein of Oliver Twist
    • Sans Souci (without cares), disambiguation page
      • Sanssouci, the former summer palace of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia at Potsdam
  • Sans, California, a former settlement
  • Bushmen - the indigenous people of Southern Africa, often referred to as San
  • Plural of san
  • Daniel Sans (born 1975), German tenor

[edit] Acronyms

  • SANS Institute (SysAdmin, Audit, Networking, and Security), a trade name owned by the for-profit Escal Institute of Advanced Technologies; providing computer security training, professional certification, and a research archive; founded in 1989
  • Small-angle neutron scattering (SANS), a method of studying polymers and colloids by elastic neutron scattering

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Merriam-Webster: sans
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