| S/H |
Sample and Hold |
|
S/MIME |
Secure
MIME |
| SA |
European equivalent of Inc. |
| SA |
Situation Analysis |
| SA |
Source Address |
| SA |
Sourcing Analyst |
| SA |
Structured Analysis |
| SA |
System Administrator |
| SA |
Systems Architecture |
| SAA |
Standards Association of Australia |
| SAA |
Systems Application Architecture,
from IBM |
| SAACONS |
Standard Army Automated
CONtracting System |
| SABRE |
Semi-Automated Business Research
Environment |
| SAC |
Sales and Cost |
| SAD |
Scan
Axis Directionality |
| SAE |
Society
of Automotive Engineers |
| SAIC |
Science Applications International
Corp. |
| SAIL |
Stanford Artificial Intelligence
Lab |
|
SALT |
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks |
| SAM |
Support Inventory Management
System |
| SAMA |
Scientific Apparatus Manufacturers
Association |
| SAMA |
Strategic
Account Management Association |
| SAN |
Standard Address Number |
| SAN |
Storage-Area Networks |
| SAP |
Service Access Point |
| SAP |
Systems, Applications and
Products, German software company |
| SAPIC |
Streamlined Advanced
Programmable Interrupt Controller |
| SAR |
Service Agreement Report |
| SAR |
Stock Appreciation Right |
| SAR |
System Activity Report |
| SAS |
(n.a.) SAS Institute |
| SAW |
Surface-Acoustic Wave |
|
SAX |
Simple
API for XML |
| SB |
Small Business |
| SBA |
Small Business Administration |
| SBA |
Small Business Agreement |
|
SBI |
Self-Billing
Invoice |
| SBM |
Supply Base Management |
| SBOL |
Straight Bill of Lading |
| SBS |
Silicon Bilateral Switch |
| SC/GT |
Supply Chain/Global Trade |
| SCA |
Single Connector Attachment |
| SCALE |
Short-term Commitment And
Long-term Estimate |
| SC PAN |
Smart County Public Access
Network, JVSV Project |
| SCAC |
Standard Carrier Alpha Code |
| SCI |
Sensitive Compartmented
Intelligence |
| SCM |
Semiconductor Contract
Manufacturing/Manufacturer |
| SCM |
Service Control Manager |
| SCM |
Software Configuration Management |
| SCM |
Standard Cost Management |
| SCM |
Station Configuration Management |
|
SCM |
Supply Chain Management |
| SCN |
Stock Change Notice |
| SCPI |
Standard Commands for Programmable
Instruments |
| SCR |
Silicon Controlled Rectifier |
| SCSA |
Signal Computing System
Architecture |
| SCSI |
Small Computer System Interface (pronouce "scuzzy") |
| SD |
Sales and Distribution module, SAP
R/3 |
| SD |
Starting Delimiter |
| SD |
Structured Design |
| SDAT |
Stationary-head DAT |
| SDFL |
Schottky-Diode Field-effect
transistor Logic |
| SDH |
Synchronous Digital Hierarchy |
| SDI |
Strategic Defense Initiative |
| SDK |
Software Developers Kit |
| SDL |
Specification and Design Language,
an FDT |
| SDLC |
Synchronous Data-Link Control |
|
SDLC |
System Did Lose Control |
| SDLP |
Social and Democratic Labor Party,
Northern Ireland |
| SDM |
Supply / Demand Matching |
| SDNS |
Secure Data Networking Standard |
| SDNS |
Software Defined
Network Service |
| SDP |
Software Development Processes |
| SDRAM |
Synchronous Dynamic Random Access
Memory |
| SDS |
Safety Data Sheet |
| SDTV |
Standard Definition Television |
| SDU |
Service Data Unit, of data
transfer |
| SE |
Single Ended |
| SEA |
SouthEast Asia |
| SEAL |
SEa, Air and Land Commando, USN |
| SEC |
Samsung Electronics Company |
|
SEC |
Securities and Exchange
Commission |
| SEC |
SECurity |
| SECAM |
French and USSR color TV standard |
| SECDED |
Single-bit Error Correction,
Double-bit Error Detection |
| SED |
Smoke-Emitting Diode (fused or
blown diode, a/k/a friode) |
| SEE |
Society of Experimental Engineers |
| SEIU |
Service Employees International
Union, AFL-CIO |
| SEM |
Scanning/Scattering
Electron Microscope/Microscopy |
|
SEMI |
SEMIconductor |
|
SEMI |
Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International |
| SEMPER |
Secure
Electronic MarketPlace for EuRope |
| SENTO |
Secure ExtraNet using Trusted
Operating Systems |
| SEPS |
Standard Electronic Processing
System, USN |
| SES |
Stock Exchange of Singapore |
| SET |
Secure Electronic Transfer |
|
SET |
Secure Electronic
Transaction protocol |
| setgid |
Set Group IDentity, unix
priviledge promotion feature |
|
SETI |
Search for Extra-Terrestrial
Intelligence |
| setuid |
Set User IDentity, unix priviledge
promotion feature |
| SEU |
Single Event Upset |
| SEV |
Schweizer Electrotechnische
Vereninigung, Switzerland |
| SEWP |
Scientific Engineering Work
Station Procurement, NASA |
|
SF |
Square Foot |
| SFAS |
Statement of Financial Accounting
Standards |
| SFC |
Sergeant |
| SFC |
Supercritical Fluid
Chromatograph/Chromatography |
| SFE |
Supercritical Fluid Extractor |
| SFO |
San FranciscO Airport |
| SFP |
Success Factor Profiling |
| SFSG |
So Far So Good |
|
SGI |
Silicon Graphics Inc. |
| sgid |
Saved/Set gid |
|
SGM |
Standard Gross Margin |
| SGML |
Standard Generalized Markup
Language |
| SGMP |
Simple Gateway Management Protocol |
| SGP |
SinGaPore |
| SGT |
Sergeant |
| SH |
Sheet (as in unit of measure) |
| SH |
shell (unix) |
|
SHOE |
Simple HTML Ontology Extension |
| SHPE |
Society of Hispanic Professional
Engineers |
|
SHTTP |
Secure HTTP, a/k/a HTTPS |
| SHW |
System High Workstation |
| Si |
Silicon |
| SI |
Systems Integrator |
|
Si2 |
Silicon Integration
Initiative |
| SIA |
Semiconductor Industry Association |
|
sic |
(n.a.) thus, so (latin) - not a
mistake |
| SIC |
Structured Intellectual Capital |
| SICL |
Standard Instrument Control
Library |
|
SIG |
Special Interest Group |
| SIIA |
Software and
Information Industry Association |
| SIL |
Standard Interchange
Language, UCC |
| SILS |
Standard for Interoperable LAN
Security, IEEE |
| SIMAP |
Système d'Information pour les Marchés
Publics |
| SIMM |
Single Inline Memory Module |
| SIN |
Shortage Information Network, Ford
Motor Co. |
| SIP |
Single In line Package |
| SIP |
SMDS Interface Protocol |
| SIPC |
Securities
Investor Protection Corporation |
| SIPC |
Simply Interactive PC |
| SIR |
Serial InfraRed communications
capability |
| SITG |
Strategic Implementation Task
Group |
| SIWR |
Speaker Independent Word
Recognition |
| SKN |
StockKeeping Number |
| SKU |
StockKeeping Units |
| SL |
Segmented Library |
|
SLA |
Service Level Agreement |
| SLAC |
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center |
| SLAM |
Simulated Language for Alternative
Modeling |
|
SLIP |
Serial Line IP, low performance |
| SLL |
SL Librarian |
| SLSRPT |
SaLeS data RePorT message, EDIFACT |
| SM |
Surface Mount |
| SMAP |
Systems Management Application
Process, FDDI |
| SMB |
Server Message Block |
| SMB |
Small and Midsize Business |
| SMC |
Standard Microsystems Corporation |
| SMD |
Storage Module Device |
| SMD |
Surface Mount Device/Design, an IC
technology |
| SMDS |
Switched Multi-megabit Data
Service |
| SME |
Society of Mechanical Engineers |
|
SME |
Small-to-Medium Enterprise |
|
SME |
Subject Matter Expert |
|
SMI |
Supplier
Managed Inventory |
| SMIF |
Standard Mechanical InterFace |
| SMOBC |
Solder Mask Over Bare Copper |
| SMOP |
Simple Matter of Programming |
| SMP |
Super-Mini Program, GSA |
| SMP |
Symmetric-MultiProcessing |
| SMPS |
Switch Mode Power Supply |
| SMT |
Station Management, FDDI |
| SMT |
Surface Mount Technology |
|
SMTP |
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol |
| SMWBE |
Small Minority Woman
owned Business Enterprise |
| SNA |
System Network Architecture |
| SNAP |
Sub-Network Access Protocol, a
networking protocol |
| SNC |
Service Node with CITI |
| SNDP |
Sustainable Development Networking
Programme |
| SNET |
Southern New England Telephone
Company |
| SNF |
Server Natural Format, for fast
alpha character fonts |
| NMP |
Simple Network Management
Protocol, successor to SGMP |
| SNOBOL |
StriNg Oriented symBOLic Language |
| SO |
Significant Other,
a cop-out term |
| SO-8 |
Small Outline 8 pin narrow package |
|
SOA |
Service Oriented Architecture |
|
SOAP |
Simple Object Access Protocol |
| SOC |
System-On-a-Chip |
|
SODA |
SOftware
Document Automation |
| SOE |
Standard Operating Environment |
| SOFA |
Send Out For Approval |
| SOHO |
Small Office / Home Office |
| SOI |
Silicon On Insulator |
| SOIC |
Small Outline Integrated Circuit
(die package, 2 sided, gullwing leads) |
| SOJ |
Surface Mount Package with J leads |
| SOL |
Software Object Library |
| SOL-20 |
Small OutLine 20 pin wide package |
| SOM |
System Object Model, IBM |
| SOMA |
SOuth of MArket (Street), San
Francisco |
| sonar |
SOund NAvigation Ranging |
| SONET |
Synchronous Optical NETwork, CCITT long-haul
data transfer standard |
| SOP |
Standard Operating Procedure |
|
SOW |
Statement Of Work |
|
SP |
Service Pack |
| SP |
Service Provider |
|
SP |
Slow Play (video) |
|
SP |
Southern Pacific (railroad) |
| SPA |
Single Point Administration |
| SPA |
Special Pricing Agreement |
|
SPAM |
Send Phenomenal Amounts of Mail |
| SPAN |
Space Physics Analysis Network |
| SPARC |
Scalable Processor ARChitecture,
RISC design from Sun |
| SPC |
Statistical Process Control |
| SPC |
Stored Program Control |
| SPCS |
Stored Program Control Switch |
| SPEC |
SPECification |
| SPEC |
Systems Performance Evaluation Cooperative |
| SPI |
SMART Plug-In |
| SPL |
Systems Programming Language |
| SPOC |
Single Point Of Contact |
| SPP |
Scaleable Parallel Processor |
| SPP |
Scaleable Parallel-Processing |
| SPU |
System Processing Unit |
| SQC |
Statistical Quality Control |
| SQL |
Specified Quality Level |
| SQL |
Structured Query Language |
| SR |
Sales Region |
| SR |
Sales Representative |
|
SR |
Service Request |
| SRAM |
Static Random Access Memory |
| SRC |
Semiconductor Research Corporation |
| SRC |
Software Recording Corporation |
|
SRC |
SouRce Code |
|
SRC |
Spam Recycling Center |
| SRI |
Stanford Research Institute |
| SRM |
Stock Request Material |
|
SRM |
Supplier Relationship Management |
| SS/80 |
Sub Set 80, a subset of CS/80 |
| SS7 |
Signalling System No. 7 |
| SS7 |
System Number 7 network |
| SS80 |
see SS/80 |
| SS-80 |
see SS/80 |
| SSA |
Serial Storage Architecture |
|
SSCA |
Semiconductor Supply Chain Association |
|
SSCC |
Serial Shipping Container Code |
|
SSD |
Ship from Stock and Debit |
| SSE |
Software Support Environment, NASA
space station program |
| SSI |
Small Scale Integration |
|
SSL |
Secure Sockets Layer |
|
SSN |
Social Security Number |
|
SSP |
Security Service Provider |
| SSP |
Service-Switching Point |
|
SSP |
Shared Service Provider |
| SSP |
System Support Plan |
| SSR |
Solid-State Rectifier |
| SST |
SuperSonic Transport |
| STAR |
Security Trained and Ready, USAF |
| STARS |
Software Technology for Adaptable
Reliable Systems |
| START |
STrategic Arms Reductions Talks
(preceded SALT) |
| STC |
Society
for Technical Communication |
| STD |
STandarD |
| STE |
Semiconductor Test Equipment |
| STEP |
Standard for The Exchange of Product model data |
|
STEW |
Support, Tutorial, Example and
Wish List |
| STI |
Solectron Technology Inc.,
(Solectron Charlotte) |
| STM-1 |
Synchronous-Transmission Module 1 |
| STM-16 |
Synchronous Transmission Module
Level Sixteen |
| STOL |
Short Take-Off and Landing
(military); cf VTOL |
|
STP |
Scientifically Treated Petroleum |
| STP |
Signal Transfer Point |
| STS |
Ship to Stock |
| STS |
Space-Time-Space |
| SU |
Super-User, UNIX omnipotent user |
| suid |
Saved/Set uid |
| SUN |
Stanford University Network
(origin of Sun Microsystems' name) |
| SUPR |
Supervisor |
| SUPV |
Supervisor |
| SUS |
Silicon Unilateral Switch |
| SVC |
Switched Virtual Circuit |
| SVGA |
Super Visual Graphics Array |
| SVID |
System V (five)
Interface Definition, AT&T standard |
| SVVS |
System V (five)
Validation Suite, a UNIX conformance test from AT&T |
|
SW |
SoftWare |
|
SWF |
ShockWave File |
| SWI |
Smart Waveform Instrument |
| SWI |
SoftWare Initiative |
| SWIFT |
Society for Worldwide Interback
Financial Telecommunications |
| SWS |
Switched Wideband Service (NYNEX) |
| SWTS |
Secure Web Transaction Solution |
| SWUG |
Surfacemount softWare User's Group |
| SYS |
SYStem, DOS file type cointaining
system configuration commands |
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