•
sa – (s)
Sanskrit language (
ISO 639-1 code) •
SA • (i)
Salvation Army • (s) Sand (METAR Code) •
Saudi Arabia (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country's code digram) • (i)
Sexaholics Anonymous •
Sexual assault • (i)
sine anno (Latin, "without year") •
Single Adult, a designation in the LDS Church for unmarried individuals 18 and older •
Situational awareness •
South Africa • (i/s)
South Australia (postal symbol) • (i)
Standards Australia •
Sturmabteilung (German, "Storm Detachment", Nazi forerunner and rival of
SS) •
S.A. – designation for a corporation in many European countries; see article for meanings •
SAA • (i) Saudi Arabian Airlines, former name of
Saudia •
Sex Addicts Anonymous •
South African Airways •
Southern Athletic Association • Standards Association of Australia, a former name of
Standards Australia •
SAAB – (a) Svenska Aeroplan AB (Swedish aircraft manufacturer; also refers to
its former auto manufacturing arm) •
SAAFR – (a/i) Standard use Army Aircraft Flight Route ("safer") •
SAAMI – (a)
Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers' Institute ("sammy") •
SAARC – (i)
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation •
SAB – (i)
Soprano Alto Baritone •
Sabena – (a) ''Société anonyme belge d'exploitation de la navigation aérienne'' (French for "Belgian Company for Exploiting Aerial Navigation", 1923–2001) •
SABIC – (p)
Saudi
Basic
Industries
Corporation •
SABR – (a)
Society for American Baseball Research •
SAC • (a) Standards Activity Committee (of
SISO) • U.S.
Strategic Air Command (1946–1992) •
SACAT – (a) Semi Attended Customer Activated Terminal (Supermarket checkout) •
SACEUR – (p) Supreme Allied Commander EURope •
SACF - Semi Automatic Capsule Filler source •
SACLANT – (p) Supreme Allied Commander atLANTic •
SACLOS – (a) Semi-Automatic Command to Line of Sight •
SAD • (s)
Safford Regional Airport (IATA code) • (a)
Seasonal Affective Disorder •
Situational Awareness Display • SADD – (a) originally Students Against Drunk Driving, now
Students Against Destructive Decisions (U.S. national school-related group) •
SADL • (a)
Situation Awareness Data Link ("saddle") • Structural Architecture Description Language • SADT - (i)
Substance Abuse Day Treatment •
SAE • (i)
Society of Automotive Engineers •
Stamped addressed envelope •
SAFER – (a) Steel And Foam Energy Reduction •
SAFETY – (a) Stopping Adults Facilitating the Exploitation of Today's Youth •
SAFICT – (a) Software Agents as Facilitators of Interoperability in Collective Training •
sag – (s)
Sango language (ISO 639-2 code) •
SAG • (a/i)
Screen Actors Guild •
Surface Action Group •
SAG-AFTRA – (a) Screen Actors Guild–
American Federation of Television and Radio Artists •
SAGAT – (a) Situation Awareness Global Assessment Technique •
SAGE – (a)
Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (simulation) •
SAHB – (a)
Sensational Alex Harvey Band •
SAIC – (i)
Science Applications International Corporation •
SALT • (a/i)
Save A Life Today (SALT) Alert; Emergency Contact System • (a)
Southern African Large Telescope •
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks •
SAM • (a)
Sequential-Access Memory •
Sociedad Aeronáutica de Medellín •
Surface-to-Air Missile •
Sambo – (p/a)
Samooborona bez oruzhiya (Russian: "Самооборона без оружия", literally "self-defense without weapons") •
SAML – (a) Security Assertion Markup Language ("sam-ell") •
SANZAAR – (a) South Africa, New Zealand, Australia and Argentina Rugby •
san • (s)
Sanskrit language (ISO 639-2 code) • (a)
Storage Area Network •
SAO - (more than 20 alternatives) •
SAR • (s)
Saudi riyal (
ISO 4217 currency code) • (a)
Search And Rescue •
Special Administrative Region •
Synthetic Aperture Radar •
SARA • (a)
Southeastern Association for Research in Astronomy •
Scientific Atlanta Resident Application •
Scottish Amateur Rowing Association •
Southern African Railway Association •
State Administration for Religious Affairs •
SARP – (a)
Search And Rescue Processor •
SARR – (i/a)
Search And Rescue Repeater •
SARS – (a) Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome •
SART • (a)
Search and Rescue Transponder • Situational Awareness Rating Technique •
SARU – (i)
South African Rugby Union •
SAS • (i)
Scandinavian Airlines System •
Second Avenue Subway • Situational Awareness System •
Special Air Service • Studies, Analysis and Simulation • Side
Angle Side • (a)
Statistical Analysis System (original meaning; SAS Institute Inc. has evolved far beyond that scope) •
SASE – (i) Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope •
SASO – (a) Stability and Support Operations •
SASOL – (p)
Suid Afrikaanse Steenkool en Oli.e. (Afrikaans, "South African Coal and Oil") •
SAT • (i) formerly
Scholastic Aptitude Test and Scholastic Assessment Test; now known solely by the initials • Small Arms Trainer •
SATB – (i)
Soprano Alto Tenor bass •
SATNAV – (p) Satellite Navigation (Increasingly common GPS based system in new vehicles) • SATs – (a) Standard Assessment Tasks and other similar terms describing tests used in English schools; see National Curriculum assessment#Terminology •
SAU – (s)
Saudi Arabia (ISO 3166 trigram) •
SAVAK – (a)
Sazamane Etelaat va Amniate Kechvar (
Iranian "Security and Intelligence Service") •
SAW • (i)
ṣallā -llāhu ʿalayhī (wa-ʾālihī) wa-sallama (Arabic: صَلَّىٰ ٱللَّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِهِ وَسَلَّمَ, "God bless him [and his family] and grant him peace"), an honorific suffix within Islam for Muhammad • (a)
Submerged arc welding • Squad Automatic Weapon •
Surface acoustic wave •
SAWE – (a) Society of Allied Weight Engineers • SAWS – (i) alternate form of the Islamic honorific suffix for Muhammad (see SAW) ==SB==