SOS (disambiguation)
Appearance
SOS is most commonly used to describe the international Morse code distress signal ( ··· --- ···).
SOS may also refer to:
Organizations
- Boat People SOS, a nonprofit serving Vietnamese immigrants
- Samaritans of Singapore
- Save Our Seas, international non-profit charitable education organization
- Save Our Selves, a group of climate change activists
- Save Outdoor Sculpture! community based initiative to promote public sculpture awareness
- Science of Spirituality, a spiritual organization
- Secular Organizations for Sobriety, an addiction recovery group
- Share Our Strength, an anti-hunger organization
- Society of Ordained Scientists
- SOS Children's Villages, an independent, non-governmental international development organisation
Government and military
- Secretary of State, a common title for a government official
- Services of Supply, a branch of the United States army
- Squadron Officer School, a United States Air Force leadership school
- Special Operations Squadron, United States Air Force units
- State Defense Guard, armed troops of czechoslovakia border in 1918-1936
- Supervisor of Shipbuilding, manages new construction and modernization of surface ships and submarines
Medicine and genetics
- SOS response, a DNA repair system
- Son of Sevenless, a type of gene
- Sinusoidal obstruction syndrome, a medical condition
Computing and technology
- Apple SOS, an Apple operating system
- SHARE Operating System, an IBM operating system
- Silicon on sapphire, a circuit manufacturing process
- Structural operational semantics, a concept in computer programming
- Switched-On Schoolhouse, an educational computer program
- System of systems, a concept in systems engineering
- SOS web application framework for ColdFusion
- Science On a Sphere, a dynamic, animated globe display system invented by NOAA
- Sensor Observation Service, a standardized web service (OGC) for sensor observations
Sport
- Sheamus O'Shaunessy, professional wrestler
- Stephen Silvagni (born 1967), Australian football player
- Steve Spurrier (born 1945), American football head coach
- Strength of schedule, a competitor rating statistic
- Survival of the Shawangunks, a triathlon held in New Paltz, New York
- Catchphrase of Kofi Kingston (born 1981), professional wrestler
Books
- S.O.S. (novel), by Joseph Connolly
- Sos the Rope, a novel in the Battle Circle series by Piers Anthony
- The Sword of Shannara, a 1977 novel in the Shannara series by Terry Brooks
- SOS, a short-story manga collection by Hinako Ashihara
Film and television
- S.O.S. (film), a 1928 British film
- "S.O.S." (Lost)
- S.O.S.: Sexo y otros Secretos, a Mexican TV series
- SOS Brigade, a fictional organization in the Haruhi Suzumiya franchise
Music
Performers and companies
- SOS Records, a record label
- The SOS Band, an American R&B group formed in the 1970s
- Swing Out Sister, a British pop group formed in the 1980s
- Sisters of Shu, a Chinese musical duo consisting of Dee Hsu and Barbie Hsu
Albums
- S.O.S (Morgana Lefay album)
- S.O.S. (S.O.S. Band album)
- Sound of Silver, a 2007 album by LCD Soundsystem
- S.O.S., an album by La Bouche, or the title song
- $O$, Die Antwoord's debut album
Songs
- "SOS" (ABBA song)
- "S.O.S." (ABC song)
- "SOS" (Jonas Brothers song)
- "S.O.S." (Ola Svensson song)
- "S.O.S." (Pink Lady song)
- "SOS" (Rihanna song)
- "S.O.S." (Stratovarius song)
- SOS (Elena Patroklou song)
- S.O.S (The Tiger Took My Family), a song by Jonny Jakobsen
- "S.O.S. (Anything But Love)", a song by Apocalyptica
- "S.O.S. (Let the Music Play)", a song by Jordin Sparks
- "S.O.S. (Too Bad)", a 1974 song by Aerosmith
- "S.O.S., a song by Chroma Key from Dead Air For Radios
- "S.O.S.", a song by Collie Buddz from WWE The Music, Vol. 8
- "S.O.S.", a song by Earl Greyhound from Soft Targets
- "S.O.S.", a song by Good Charlotte from The Chronicles of Life and Death
- "SOS", a song by Papa Roach from The Paramour Sessions
- "SOS", a song by Take That from Progress
- "S.O.S.", a song by The Suicide Machines from Destruction By Definition
- "Message in a Bottle" (song), a song by The Police, covered as "S.O.S. (Message in a Bottle)" by Filterfunk
- "Same Ol' Situation (S.O.S.)", a song by Mötley Crüe on the album Dr. Feelgood
- "SOS", a song by French Canadian band "Les Parfaits Salauds" in the 1980s
Games
- SOS (arcade game)
- SOS (video game)
- SOS (game), a game played with paper and pencil
Other uses
- Self Organizing Still-Life, an art style
- Sos, Azerbaijan
- Sos, Lot-et-Garonne, France
- Sos del Rey Católico, Aragon, Spain
- S.O.S. (appetizer)
- S.O.S Soap Pad, a scouring pad
- Sawed-off shotgun
- Scotland on Sunday newspaper
- Second order system, a physical concept
- Shit On a Shingle, a slang phrase for chipped beef on toast
- Somali shilling (ISO 4217 code), the currency of Somalia
- Sum of squares, a mathematical concept
- Sodium octyl sulfate, a surfactant similar to Sodium lauryl sulfate containing an eight carbon chain instead of twelve
- Södersjukhuset, a hospital in Stockholm, Sweden
- Vera T. Sós, an Hungarian mathematician
- S.O.S. (cocktail)