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 forces 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
• South African Ship, the South African Navy warship prefix

Businesses

• SAS (TV station), a television station in Adelaide, South Australia
• SAS (shoemakers), trademark of a shoe company in San Antonio, Texas, US
• SAS Institute, an analytics software company headquartered in North Carolina, US
• Scandinavian Airlines, the largest airline in Scandinavia
• Société par actions simplifiée, a type of company in France
• Southern Audio Services, an electronics manufacturer based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, US
• SAS Group (Scandinavian Airlines System Group), an airline company based in Stockholm, Sweden; Oslo, Norway; Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Scandinavian Airlines, an airline company in Denmark, Norway and Sweden
  • SAS Cargo Group, a cargo company in Denmark, Norway and Sweden

Educational

Asia

• St. Augustine's School, Kalimpong, a school in Kalimpong, West Bengal, India
• Sekolah Sultan Alam Shah, a boarding school in Malaysia
• Shanghai American School, an international school in Shanghai
• Singapore American School, an international school in Singapore

Europe

• School of Advanced Study, a postgraduate institution of the University of London, United Kingdom
• Sense About Science, a UK-based organization promoting respect for good science
• Slovak Academy of Sciences, the main scientific and research institution in Slovakia
• Studia Academica Slovaca, a summer school teaching the Slovak language
• Sussex Archaeological Society, an archaeological society based in Lewes, Sussex, UK

North America

• Saline Area Schools, a school district in Michigan
• School for Advanced Studies, a high school program in Miami, Florida, United States
• Semester at Sea, a shipboard academic program administered by the University of Virginia, United States
• 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
• Strong American Schools, an American non-profit organization that promotes sound education policies

International

• Society for Animation Studies, an international scholarly organization

Political

• 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
• Servants Anonymous Society, a nonprofit women's organization
• Surfers Against Sewage, a UK-based campaign for clean, safe recreational water

Other organizations

• Andalusian Health Service (Servicio Andaluz de Salud), the government-run health system of Andalusia, Spain
• Scottish Ambulance Service

Arts and entertainment

• SAS (novel series), a French book series by Gérard de Villiers
• SAS (Action Force), a fictional military unit in the Action Force universe
• Shimmer and Shine, an American animated children's television series
• Southern All Stars, a Japanese rock band
• Strong Arm Steady, an American hip hop group from California

People

• Sas of Moldavia (died 1358), voivode ruling over what was to become Moldavia between 1354 and 1358
• Ferenc Sas, Hungarian footballer
• Hasan Şaş, Turkish footballer

Places

• Sas, Iran, a village in Mazandaran Province, Iran
• Sas van Gent, a town in the Netherlands
• Sas River (Romania)

Science, technology, and mathematics

Biology and medicine

• 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 (non-human), an abnormal, congenital heart murmur
• Syndesmotic ankle sprain, a type of ankle sprain

Computing

• SAS (software), (Statistical Analysis System) an integrated software suite produced by SAS Institute Inc.
• SAS language, a data processing and statistical analysis language
• Secure Attention Sequence, a special key combination which invokes a trusted login process (e.g. Ctrl+Alt+Delete on Windows NT systems)
• Serial Attached SCSI, a computer bus technology for the transfer of data to and from storage devices (e.g., hard disks)
• Short Authentication String, a method used in the ZRTP cryptographic protocol
• Slot Accounting System protocol, a slot machine communication method created by the International Game Technology (IGT) corporation
• Sorcerer's Apprentice Syndrome, a network protocol flaw in the Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP)
• Spatially Aware Sublayer, an optional sublayer of the MAC that provides spatial reuse in Resilient Packet Ring

Space

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

Other uses in science, technology, and mathematics

• Self-anchored suspension bridge, a suspension bridge in which the main cables attach to the ends of the deck
• Side-angle-side, a concept in geometry for determining congruence or similarity of triangles
• 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
• Stability Augmentation System, a limited form of autopilot that stabilizes an aircraft in one or more
• Synthetic aperture sonar, a form of sonar analogous to synthetic aperture radar

Sport

• SAS Championship, a golf tournament in Cary, North Carolina, United States
• SAS Masters Tour, a domestic professional golf tour operated by the Swedish Golf Association
• San Antonio Spurs, a professional basketball team in San Antonio, Texas, United States
• The 'SAS', Blackburn Rovers F.C. 1990's strikers Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton, and later Liverpool F.C. strike partners Luis Suárez and Daniel Sturridge

Transportation

For transportation companies, see § Businesses.

• Second Avenue Subway, a subway line in New York City
• Salton Sea Airport, by IATA airport code
• San Antonio Station, by Amtrak code

Other uses

• Sas coat of arms, a European coat of arms (German, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian and Ukrainian)
• Statements on auditing standards, a series of internationally recognized auditing standards

See also

• History of the SAS (disambiguation)
• Sass (disambiguation)
• Software as a service (SaaS)
• All pages with titles beginning with SAS