SAS

Sas or SAS may refer to:

Organizations

Military

• Special Air Service, a special forces unit of the British Army
• Special Air Service Regiment, a special forces unit of the Australian Army
• New Zealand Special Air Service, a special forces unit of the New Zealand Army
• Rhodesian Special Air Service, several special force units from Rhodesia
• Special Air Service, a unit within the Special Forces of Zimbabwe
• Free French Special Air Service, the predecessor unit of the French 1st Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment (1er RPIMa)
• 5th Special Air Service, a Belgian Second World War formation
• Canadian Special Air Service Company, a Canadian unit from 1947 to 1949
• Su Altı Savunma, a special operations unit of the Turkish Navy
• Section Administrative Spécialisée (Special Administrative Section), a French army civil-military cooperation unit in the Algerian War
• South African Ship, the South African Navy ship prefix

Business

• Société par actions simplifiée (S.A.S.), type of a company/corporation in France
• SAS (TV station), a television station in Adelaide, South Australia
• San Antonio Shoemakers, a shoe company in San Antonio, Texas, USA
• Southern Audio Services, an electronics manufacturer based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA

Education

• School of Advanced Study, a postgraduate institution of the University of London, UK
• School for Advanced Studies, a high school program in Miami, Florida, USA
• Semester at Sea, a shipboard academic program administered by the University of Virginia, USA
• Sekolah Alam Shah, a 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
• Society for Amateur Scientists, an American non-profit organization
• 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 organization
• St. Augustine's School, a school in Kalimpong, West Bengal, India
• Strong American Schools, an American non-profit organization that promotes sound education policies
• Sussex Archaeological Society, an archaeological society based in Lewes, Sussex, UK
• Sense About Science, a UK-based organization promoting respect for good science
• Saline Area Schools, a school district in Michigan

Politics and groups

• Sloboda a Solidarita or Freedom and Solidarity, a political party in Slovakia
• Second Amendment Sisters, a women's advocacy group focusing on gun rights in the United States of America
• Surfers Against Sewage, a UK-based campaign for clean, safe recreational water

Computing

• SAS Institute Inc., a software company headquartered in North Carolina, USA
  • SAS (software), an integrated software suite produced by SAS Institute, Inc.
  • SAS language, a data processing and statistical analysis language
• Secure Attention Sequence, a method to invoke a computer operating system's attention
• Serial attached SCSI, a computer bus technology for the transfer of data to and from storage devices (e.g., hard disks)
• Spatially Aware Sublayer, an optional sublayer of the MAC that provides spatial reuse in Resilient Packet Ring
• Standalone server, a type of server that is not part of a larger network infrastructure such as an Active Directory domain
• SUPERAntiSpyware, software application for detecting and removing harmful software applications
• Sorcerer's Apprentice Syndrome, a network protocol flaw in the Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP)
• Short Authentication String, a method used in the ZRTP cryptographic protocol

Engineering

• Self-anchored suspension bridge, a suspension bridge in which the main cables attach to the ends of the deck
• 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
• Substation Automation System, also referred to as Power system automation
• Synthetic aperture sonar, a form of sonar analogous to synthetic aperture radar

Music and literature

• Southern All Stars, a Japanese rock band
• Strong Arm Steady, an American hip-hop group from California, USA
• Son Altesse Sérénissime, a French book series by Gérard de Villiers

Places

• Sas van Gent, a town in the Netherlands
• Sas River (Romania)

Science

• Solvent-accessible surface, 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
• Subvalvular aortic stenosis, an abnormal, congenital heart murmur
• Side-angle-side, a concept in geometry for determining congruence or similarity of triangles

Space

• Small Astronomy Satellite 1, the first of a series of NASA X-Ray satellites launched on 12 December 1970
  • Small Astronomy Satellite 2, launched on 15 November 1972
  • Small Astronomy Satellite 3, launched on 7 May 1975
• 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 travellers
• Space Access Society, an organization dedicated to increasing the viability and reducing the cost of commercial access to space travel
• SAS, Sistema Avariynogo Spaseniya (transliterated from the Russian CAC, Система Аварийного Спасения), the Soyuz launch escape system

Sports

• The San Antonio Spurs, a professional basketball team, playing in the NBA
• SAS Championship, a golf tournament in Cary, North Carolina, USA
• SAS Masters Tour, a domestic professional golf tour operated by the Swedish Golf Association

Transportation

• Second Avenue Subway, a subway line in New York City
• Salton Sea Airport, by IATA airport code
• SAS Group, Scandinavian Airlines System Group, an airline company based in Stockholm, Sweden
  • Scandinavian Airlines, an airline company in Denmark, Norway and Sweden
  • SAS Cargo Group, a cargo company in Denmark, Norway and Sweden

Other uses

• Statements on auditing standards, a series of internationally recognized auditing standards
• Sas of Moldavia (died 1358), Voivode ruling over what was to become Moldavia between 1354–1358
• Sas (coat of arms), a eastern European coat of arms
• SAS (Action Force), a fictional military unit in the Action Force universe
• Andalusian Health Service (Servicio Andaluz de Salud), the government-run health system

See also

• Sass (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with SAS