SAC
Encyclopedia
People
- Stuart Adam Campbell, a famous gamer who got 30 days playtime within two months of MW2's release in 2009
Computers
- Symposium on Applied ComputingSymposium on Applied ComputingThe ACM Symposium on Applied Computing is an annual conference sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing.The first Symposium on Applied Computing was held in 1985. Since the 1990s, the acceptance ratio for paper submissions has dropped from 54%-67% to below 30% in the 2008...
, an annual conference sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing - Selected Areas in CryptographySelected Areas in CryptographySelected Areas in Cryptography is a series of international cryptography workshops held annually in Canada, every August since 1994. Through 1999, it was held at either Queen's University or Carleton University; the locations have varied more in recent years...
, an annual cryptography workshop series - Superior Art CreationsSuperior Art CreationsSuperior Art Creations is an underground artscene group which caters primarily to and is well known within the warez scene.-Origin and brief history:...
, an underground group of computer art scene enthusiasts
Education
- Saint Aloysius College, Catholic Private School in Adelaide, South Australia
- San Antonio CollegeSan Antonio CollegeSan Antonio College is a community college that is a part of the Alamo Community College District. It is located on San Pedro Avenue, across from San Pedro Park, near downtown San Antonio. SAC is the oldest public two-year college in Texas...
, a College of the Alamo Community Colleges in San Antonio, Texas - Scottish Agricultural CollegeScottish Agricultural CollegeThe Scottish Agricultural College exists to support the development of land-based industries and communities through Higher Education and training, specialist research and development and advisory and consultancy services....
, an organization based in Scotland - Sydney Adventist CollegeSydney Adventist CollegeSydney Adventist College is an independent, co-educational, Seventh-day Adventist, day school, located in Strathfield, an inner-western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...
, a Seventh-Day Adventist high school in Sydney, New South Wales - Students' Administrative Council, University of TorontoStudents' Administrative Council, University of TorontoThe University of Toronto Students' Union , formally known as the Students' Administrative Council of the University of Toronto, Inc., is the main student union of the University of Toronto, representing the university's 44,000 full-time undergraduate students...
, the largest students' union in Canada - St. Andrew's College (Ontario), known as SAC
Government and military
- Second Artillery CorpsSecond Artillery CorpsThe Second Artillery Corps is the strategic missile forces of the People's Republic of China. The SAC is the component of the People's Liberation Army that controls China's nuclear ballistic and conventional missiles. China's total nuclear arsenal size is estimated to be about 240 nuclear weapons...
, one of four branches of the Chinese armed forces - Shenyang Aircraft CorporationShenyang Aircraft CorporationShenyang Aircraft Corporation is a Chinese civilian and military aircraft manufacturer located in Shenyang. Founded in 1953, it is one of the oldest aircraft manufacturers in the People's Republic of China. Many aircraft manufacturers in China such as Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group or Guizhou...
, Chinese aircraft manufacturer - Southern Air Command of the Indian Air Force
- Special Area of ConservationSpecial Area of ConservationA Special Area of Conservation is defined in the European Union's Habitats Directive , also known as the Directive on the Conservation of Natural Habitats and of Wild Fauna and Flora...
, an area defined by member states of the European Union as being worthy of conservation - Strategic Air CommandStrategic Air CommandThe Strategic Air Command was both a Major Command of the United States Air Force and a "specified command" of the United States Department of Defense. SAC was the operational establishment in charge of America's land-based strategic bomber aircraft and land-based intercontinental ballistic...
, an operational establishment of the United States Air Force - Standardization Administration of ChinaStandardization Administration of ChinaThe Standardization Administration of China is the Standards organization authorized by the State Council of China to exercise administrative responsibilities by undertaking unified management, supervision and overall coordination of standardization work in China...
- California State Prison, SacramentoCalifornia State Prison, SacramentoCalifornia State Prison, Sacramento is a male-only state prison located in the city of Folsom, in Sacramento County, California. The facility is also referenced as Sacramento State Prison, CSP-Sacramento, CSP-SAC, and occasionally, New Folsom or New Folsom Prison which was its official name prior...
Sports
- Sooner Athletic ConferenceSooner Athletic ConferenceThe Sooner Athletic Conference is an affiliate of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics . Its 12 member institutions are located in Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas....
- South Atlantic ConferenceSouth Atlantic ConferenceThe South Atlantic Conference is a college athletic conference which operates in the southeastern United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division II...
- Swiss Alpine ClubSwiss Alpine ClubThe Swiss Alpine Club is the largest mountaineering club in Switzerland. It was founded in 1863 in Olten and it is now composed of 111 sections with 110,000 members...
Other
- SAC Capital Advisors, a hedge fund managed by Steven A. Cohen
- Service d'Action CiviqueService d'Action CiviqueThe SAC , officially created in January 1960, was a Gaullist militia founded by Jacques Foccart, Charles de Gaulle's chief adviser for African matters, and Pierre Debizet, a former Resistant and official director of the group...
, a Gaullist organisation - Societas Apostolatus Catholici, a religious congregation within the Roman Catholic Church
- Songwriters Association of CanadaSongwriters Association of CanadaThe Songwriters Association of Canada is a Canadian organization dedicated exclusively to Canadian composers, lyricists and songwriters. Their mission is to develop and protect the creative and business environments for songwriters in Canada and around the world.- Proposal to Monetize File Sharing...
, a Canadian organization dedicated exclusively to Canadian composers, lyricists and songwriters - Space Applications CentreSpace Applications CentreThe Space Applications Centre is an institution of research in Ahmedabad, India under the aegis of the Indian Space Research Organization...
, an Indian Space Research Organization Research lab - Sveriges Arbetares Centralorganisation, an anarcho-syndicalist trade union federation in Sweden
- Satélite Argentino Científico, Argentine research satellites of Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales
Government and military
- Senior AircraftmanSenior AircraftmanSenior Aircraftman , or Senior Aircraftwoman , is a rank in the Royal Air Force, ranking between Leading Aircraftman and Senior Aircraftman Technician and having a NATO rank code of OR-2. The rank, which is non-supervisory, was introduced on 1 January 1951...
, a rank in the Royal Air Force - Senior Assistant CommissionerSenior Assistant CommissionerSenior assistant commissioner is a rank used in the Singapore Police Force and in the New South Wales Police Force of Australia.-Australia:The rank of senior assistant commissioner is only used in the New South Wales Police Force, where it is senior to the rank of assistant commissioner and junior...
, a rank in the Singapore Police Force - Special Agent in Charge, an Government agent in authority at the scene of a crime or investigation
- NATO Strategic Airlift CapabilityNATO Strategic Airlift CapabilityThe Strategic Airlift Capability is a consortium of 12 nations, 10 of which are member states of NATO and two of which are Partners For Peace, to pool together resources to purchase and operate Boeing C-17 Globemaster III aircraft for joint strategic airlift purposes.The SAC concept was...
, multinational transport aircraft initiative - Supreme Allied CommanderSupreme Allied CommanderSupreme Allied Commander is the title held by the most senior commander within certain multinational military alliances. It originated as a term used by the Western Allies during World War II, and is currently used only within NATO. Dwight Eisenhower served as Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary...
Education
- Student activity centerStudent activity centerA student activity center is a type of building found on university campuses. In the United States, such a building is more often called a student union, student commons, or student center...
, a type of building found on university campuses - Student Activity Complex in Laredo, Texas
- SISD Student Activities ComplexSISD Student Activities ComplexThe SISD Student Activities Complex, known locally as "The SAC" is a High School football stadium in the far east side of El Paso, Texas.It has a capacity of 11,000. It is owned and operated by the Socorro Independent School District for high school football, soccer, swim meets, and track & field...
in El Paso, Texas - School-assessed coursework, a type of school-based assessment
Science, technology, and medicine
- Source of activation confusion modelSource of activation confusion modelSAC is a computational model of memory encoding and retrieval. It has been developed by Lynne M. Reder at Carnegie Mellon University. It shares many commonalities of with ACT-R.-Structure:...
in psychology - S-Allyl cysteineS-Allyl cysteineS-Allyl cysteine is an organic compound that is a natural constituent of fresh garlic. It is a derivative of the amino acid cysteine in which an allyl group has been added to the sulfur atom....
, a chemical constituent of garlic - Sac spiderSac spiderThe sac spiders of the family Clubionidae have a very confusing taxonomic history. Once this family was a large catch-all taxon for a disparate collection of spiders, similar only in that they had eight eyes arranged in two rows, conical anterior spinnerets that touched and were wandering predators...
, a large catch-all taxon for a large group of disparate collection of spiders - Spindle assembly checkpoint, a mechanism of mitosis or meiosis
Computers
- SAC programming languageSAC programming languageSAC is a strict purely functional programming language which design is focused on the needs of numerical applications. Emphasis is laid on efficient support for array processing. Efficiency concerns are essentially twofold...
, a strict purely functional programming language - SA-C programming language, a C family language targeted at programming circuits
- Strict Avalanche Criterion, a property of boolean functions of relevance in cryptography
- Special Administration Console, a system console that provides headless server operation
- Spatial Audio Coding (MPEG SurroundMPEG SurroundMPEG Surround , also known as Spatial Audio Coding is a lossy compression format for surround sound that provides a method for extending mono or stereo audio services to multi-channel audio in a backwards compatible fashion...
), a lossy compression format for surround sound
Transportation
- Sports Activity Coupe, a BMW class of cars
- Sacramento Executive AirportSacramento Executive AirportSacramento Executive Airport , also known as simply Executive Airport, is a public airport located three miles south of the central business district of Sacramento, a city in Sacramento County, California, USA...
's IATA code - Sacramento Valley Rail Station's Amtrak station code
Television and film
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone ComplexGhost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complexis an anime television series produced by Production I.G and based on Masamune Shirow's manga Ghost in the Shell. It was written and directed by Kenji Kamiyama, with original character design by Hajime Shimomura and a soundtrack by Yoko Kanno...
- Super Adventure Club, a fictional organization in "The Return of Chef", a South Park episode
Food and meals
- SačSAC-People:* Stuart Adam Campbell, a famous gamer who got 30 days playtime within two months of MW2's release in 2009-Computers:* Symposium on Applied Computing, an annual conference sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing...
, a baking vessel and its dome-shaped cover, used in the Balkans - Saj (utensil), sac or saç, a dome-shaped cooking utensil, used in Turkey and the Middle East
Anatomical enclosures
- Gestational sacGestational sacThe gestational sac is the only available intrauterine structure that can be used to determine if an intrauterine pregnancy exists, until the embryo is identified....
- Yolk sacYolk sacThe yolk sac is a membranous sac attached to an embryo, providing early nourishment in the form of yolk in bony fishes, sharks, reptiles, birds, and primitive mammals...
- Amniotic sacAmniotic sacThe amniotic sac is the sac in which the fetus develops in amniotes. It is a tough but thin transparent pair of membranes, which hold a developing embryo until shortly before birth. The inner membrane, the amnion, contains the amniotic fluid and the fetus. The outer membrane, the Chorion,...
- Viscid sac
- ChorionChorionThe chorion is one of the membranes that exist during pregnancy between the developing fetus and mother. It is formed by extraembryonic mesoderm and the two layers of trophoblast and surrounds the embryo and other membranes...
- Vocal sacVocal sacThe vocal sac is the flexible membrane of skin possessed by most male frogs. The purpose of the vocal sac is usually as an amplification of their mating or advertisement call...
- Fecal sacFecal sacA fecal sac is a mucous membrane, generally white or clear with a dark end, that surrounds the feces of some species of nestling birds. It allows parent birds to more easily remove fecal material from the nest...
- Gular skinGular skinGular skin , in ornithology, is an area of featherless skin on birds that joins the lower mandible of the beak to the bird's neck....
or throat sac - Ink sacInk sacWith the exception of nocturnal and very deep water cephalopods, all coeloids which dwell in light conditions have an ink sac, which can be used to expel a cloud of dark ink to confuse predators. This sac is a muscular bag which originated as an extension of the hind gut...
- Anal glandsAnal glandsThe anal glands or anal sacs are small glands found near the anus in many mammals, including dogs and cats. They are not found in humans or other primates. They are paired sacs located on either side of the anus between the external and internal sphincter muscles. Sebaceous glands within the...
or anal sac - Lesser sacLesser sacThe lesser sac, also known as the omental bursa, is the cavity in the abdomen that is formed by the lesser and greater omentum. Usually found in mammals, it is connected with the greater sac via the epiploic foramen...
- Greater sacGreater sacIn human anatomy, the greater sac, also known as the general cavity or peritoneum of the peritoneal cavity proper, is the cavity in the abdomen that is inside the peritoneum but outside of the lesser sac....
- Lacrimal sacLacrimal sacThe lacrimal sac is the upper dilated end of the nasolacrimal duct, and is lodged in a deep groove formed by the lacrimal bone and frontal process of the maxilla...
, eye-and-nose-associated structure - Vestibular sacsVestibular sacsVestibular sac may refer to either of two sacs in the ear:* Saccule* Utricle...
- Bursa (anatomy)Bursa (anatomy)A bursa is a small fluid-filled sac lined by synovial membrane with an inner capillary layer of slimy fluid . It provides a cushion between bones and tendons and/or muscles around a joint. This helps to reduce friction between the bones and allows free movement...
or Bursa sac - Synovial sacSynovial sacThe synovial sac is one of the seven parts of a joint located in the body, along with muscle, tendon, ligament, bone, articular cartilage and bursa. The synovial sac is a thin tissue that lines the joint. It is filled with a fluid that works like oil in a car, lubricating the joint and making it...
, joint component - OvuleOvuleOvule means "small egg". In seed plants, the ovule is the structure that gives rise to and contains the female reproductive cells. It consists of three parts: The integument forming its outer layer, the nucellus , and the megaspore-derived female gametophyte in its center...
or embryo sac - Pleural cavityPleural cavityIn human anatomy, the pleural cavity is the potential space between the two pleura of the lungs. The pleura is a serous membrane which folds back onto itself to form a two-layered, membrane structure. The thin space between the two pleural layers is known as the pleural cavity; it normally...
or pleural sac - Venom sac (structure), in venom-secreting animalsVenomVenom is the general term referring to any variety of toxins used by certain types of animals that inject it into their victims by the means of a bite or a sting...
- Egg sac, the reproductive structure of spiders
- Dural sac, a structure of spinal cord
Other uses
- Sac (people), a North American tribe
- Fox languageFox languageFox is an Algonquian language, spoken by around 1000 Fox, Sauk, and Kickapoo in various locations in the Midwestern United States and in northern Mexico...
or Sac language - Sacrifice bunt, used in baseball
- Special Area of ConservationSpecial Area of ConservationA Special Area of Conservation is defined in the European Union's Habitats Directive , also known as the Directive on the Conservation of Natural Habitats and of Wild Fauna and Flora...
, a protected area in the European Union - Staff Association Committee
See also
- Sac City, IowaSac City, IowaSac City is a city in and the county seat of Sac County, Iowa, United States, located in the rolling hills along the valley of the North Raccoon River, in one of America's prime agricultural regions. U.S. Route 20 bisects the city, forming its Main Street, and the city is one of 45 designated Main...
- Sac County, IowaSac County, Iowa-2010 census:The 2010 census recorded a population of 10,350 in the county, with a population density of . There were 5,429 housing units, of which 4,482 were occupied.-2000 census:...
- Sac RiverSac RiverThe Sac River is a river in southwest Missouri. It is long, with headwaters in Lawrence and Greene counties; the headwaters join near Greenfield, then flow north through the Ozarks, to the Osage River, ending just above Osceola in Truman Reservoir....
, a river in southwest Missouri - Sacramento, CaliforniaSacramento, CaliforniaSacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the county seat of Sacramento County. It is located at the confluence of the Sacramento River and the American River in the northern portion of California's expansive Central Valley. With a population of 466,488 at the 2010 census,...