Som

As a three-letter acronym, SOM (or SoM) may have any of the following meanings:

• Somalia, the country whose ISO 3166 three-letter code and IOC Olympic country code is "SOM"
• Somerset Railroad, a rail carrier whose Association of American Railroads reporting mark is "SOM"
• In education:
  • School of Management, a business school
  • School of Medicine, a medical school
  • School of Music, a music school
• In technology:
  • Self-organizing map, a type of artificial neural network in machine learning
  • Service-Oriented Modeling, an SOA Modeling methology
  • 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, a type of computer hardware device used in embedded systems
  • Spatial Object Model, an Oracle database storage concept for spatial or geographic data
  • Simulation Object Model, a document describing a component within the High Level Architecture (simulation)
  • Services over the Messenger, a services who use messenger protocols (like jabber)
  • Start of Message (or Media), a Time Code signal used in the broadcasting industry
• In business:
  • Share of Market
  • Success-oriented management
  • Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, an architectural firm
  • Surveys, Opinion polls and Marketing, a Canadian polling company[1]
• Saskatchewan Order of Merit, a Canadian provincial award
• Seine-Oise-Marne culture, name given by archaeologists to an ancient culture in northern France
• The Society of Magi, a magickal organization
• Secret of Mana, a role-playing game for the NES console
• Secrets of Mirage, a computer game
• Soil Organic Matter, organic compounds within the mineral soil without living roots and animals
• SOM Center Road, one designation of Ohio State Route 91

As a word, Som may refer to:

• Any of several currencies of Turkic-speaking countries in Central Asia:
  • Kyrgyzstani som, currency unit in Kyrgyzstan
  • Uzbekistani som, currency unit in Uzbekistan
  • In the Soviet Union, speakers of Kazakh, Kyrgyz and Uzbek called the ruble the som, and this name appeared written on the back of banknotes. The word som (sometimes transliterated "sum" or "soum") means "pure" in Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uyghur and Uzbek, as well as in many other Turkic languages. The word implies "pure gold".
• Som, Uttar Pradesh, a town in India
• The Som Tower, in San Francisco