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

• SAS (TV station), a television station in Adelaide, South Australia
• SAS Shoemakers, a shoe company in San Antonio, Texas, United States
• SAS Institute, a software company headquartered in North Carolina, United States
  • SAS (software), (Statistical Analysis System) an integrated software suite produced by SAS Institute Inc.
  • SAS language, a data processing and statistical analysis language
• 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, United States

Education

• School of Advanced Study, a postgraduate institution of the University of London, United Kingdom
• 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
• 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
• 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, Kalimpong, 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
• Servants Anonymous Society, a nonprofit women's organization
• Surfers Against Sewage, a UK-based campaign for clean, safe recreational water

Computing

• 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)
• Spatially Aware Sublayer, an optional sublayer of the MAC that provides spatial reuse in Resilient Packet Ring
• Stand-alone server, a type of server that is not part of a larger network infrastructure such as an Active Directory domain
• 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
• Synthetic aperture sonar, a form of sonar analogous to synthetic aperture radar
• Stability Augmentation System, a limited form of autopilot that stabilizes the aircraft in one or more axes.
• Safety And Automation System, a combination of a Industrial control system and a Industrial safety system

Entertainment

Literature

• SAS (novel series), a French book series by Gérard de Villiers

Music

• Southern All Stars, a Japanese rock band
• Strong Arm Steady, an American hip-hop group from California

Television

• Shimmer and Shine

People

• 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

• 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
• 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 December 12, 1970
  • Small Astronomy Satellite 2, launched November 15, 1972
  • Small Astronomy Satellite 3, launched May 7, 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
• Sistema Avariynogo Spaseniya, (Russian: CAC, Система Аварийного Спасения), the Soyuz launch escape system

Sports

• 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
• Liverpool F.C. strike partners Luis Suárez and Daniel Sturridge were known as the 'SAS'.
• San Antonio Spurs, a basketball team in San Antonio, Texas, United States

Transportation

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

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 European coat of arms (German, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Polish and Romanian and Ukrainian)
• SAS (Action Force), a fictional military unit in the Action Force universe
• Andalusian Health Service (Servicio Andaluz de Salud), the government-run health system of Andalusia, Spain

See also

• Sass (disambiguation)
• Software as a service (SaaS)
• All pages beginning with "SAS"