SAR
Encyclopedia
Organizations
- SAR RecordsSAR RecordsSAR Records was a record company founded by soul music legend Sam Cooke in 1961. The meaning of "SAR" has been disputed; it has been listed as "Sam & Alex Records" and also as "Sam, Alex, & Roy Records" SAR Records was a record company founded by soul music legend Sam Cooke in 1961. The meaning of...
, an American record labels - Scholars at RiskScholars At RiskScholars at Risk is a U.S.-based international network of academic institutions organized to support and defend the principles of academic freedom and to defend the human rights of scholars around the world....
, a network of academic institutions organized to support academic freedom - School for Advanced ResearchSchool for Advanced ResearchThe School for Advanced Research on the Human Experience , until 2007 known as the School of American Research and originally founded in 1907 as the School for American Archaeology , is an advanced research center located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA...
, an anthropological/archaeological research center in Santa Fe, New Mexico - Sigma Alpha Rho, a high school fraternity, in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Sons of the American RevolutionSons of the American RevolutionThe National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution is a Louisville, Kentucky-based fraternal organization in the United States...
, a genealogically-based community service organization - SAR AcademySAR AcademySalanter Akiba Riverdale Academy is a coeducational, private Modern Orthodox Jewish day school. The school is located in the Riverdale section of the New York City borough of the Bronx. It is well known for having no walls dividing the classrooms, which is part of the school's philosophy of...
, a modern Orthodox yeshiva in Riverdale, New York - SAR High SchoolSar High SchoolSalanter Akiba Riverdale High School is a Modern Orthodox Yeshiva day school in Riverdale, New York City. It was founded in 2003. The school is affiliated with SAR Academy, which is also in Riverdale, Bronx, New York City and a little over fifty percent of the over 400 students attending SAR High...
, the high school of SAR Academy
Railways
- South African Railways, a former state-controlled rail transport company in South Africa
- South Australian RailwaysSouth Australian RailwaysSouth Australian Railways built and operated railways in South Australia from 1854 to the incorporation of its non-urban railways into the Australian National Railways Commission in 1975, together with the former Commonwealth Railways and the former Tasmanian Government Railways...
, a former railways operator in South Australia - Saudi Railway Company, a railway company in Saudi Arabia
- Savage Alberta RailwaySavage Alberta RailwaySavage Alberta Railway , known as Alberta RailNet between 1999 and 2005, was a Canadian short line railway that operated in the province of Alberta until late 2006.-History:...
, a former short line railway in Alberta, Canada
Science and technology
- Sodium Adsorption RatioSodium adsorption ratioSodium adsorption ratio is a measure of the suitability of water for use in agricultural irrigation, as determined by the concentrations of solids dissolved in the water...
, a measure of the suitability of water for agricultural irrigation - Sulfuric AcidSulfuric acidSulfuric acid is a strong mineral acid with the molecular formula . Its historical name is oil of vitriol. Pure sulfuric acid is a highly corrosive, colorless, viscous liquid. The salts of sulfuric acid are called sulfates...
Recovery (or Regeneration), a common hydrocarbon processing application - Synthetic Aperture RadarSynthetic aperture radarSynthetic-aperture radar is a form of radar whose defining characteristic is its use of relative motion between an antenna and its target region to provide distinctive long-term coherent-signal variations that are exploited to obtain finer spatial resolution than is possible with conventional...
, an active microwave remote sensing technology - Successive ApproximationSuccessive approximation ADCA successive approximation ADC is a type of analog-to-digital converter that converts a continuous analog waveform into a discrete digital representation via a binary search through all possible quantization levels before finally converging upon a digital output for each conversion.-Block...
Register - SAR-21SAR-21The SAR 21 is a bullpup assault rifle designed and manufactured in Singapore. First revealed and subsequently adopted by the Singapore Armed Forces in 1999, it was designed & developed over a four year period and was intended to replace the locally license-built M16S1 by the Singaporean Ministry...
(Singapore Assault Rifle - 21st century), used by the Singapore army - SAR-87Sterling SAR-87The Sterling SAR-87 was a military assault rifle of the late Twentieth century. The Sterling Assault Rifle was jointly engineered by Sterling Armaments Company and Chartered Industries of Singapore in the early 1980s as an advanced version of the AR-18 for the export sales...
, the Sterling Assault Rifle - 1987 - Semi-automatic rifleSemi-automatic rifleA semi-automatic rifle is a type of rifle that fires a single bullet each time the trigger is pulled, automatically ejects the spent cartridge, chambers a fresh cartridge from its magazine, and is immediately ready to fire another shot...
, a type of rifle - Submarine Advanced Reactor, naval nuclear reactor, developed for radar picket submarine TritonUSS Triton (SSRN-586)USS Triton , a United States Navy nuclear-powered radar picket submarine, was the first vessel to execute a submerged circumnavigation of the Earth , doing so in early 1960. Triton accomplished this objective during her shakedown cruise while under the command of Captain Edward L. "Ned" Beach, Jr...
- IPCC Second Assessment ReportIPCC Second Assessment ReportThe Second Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , published in 1996, is an assessment of the then available scientific and socio-economic information on climate change...
- Sar (astronomy), a period of 9 years 5 days, used to predict eclipses
Medicine, psychology, and biology
- SAR supergroupSAR supergroupThe SAR supergroup is a clade that includes Stramenopiles , Alveolates, and Rhizaria.The first letter of each group provides the "SAR" in the name.It includes most of the organisms in the Chromalveolata grouping, but not Hacrobia....
(taxonomy), a proposed supergroup containing the Chromalveolata and the Rhizaria, standing for the three largest groups within these: Stramenopiles, Alveolata, Rhizaria - SAR11 (microbiology), a naming convention for uncultured bacteria first found in the Sargasso Sea
- S/MAR, a scaffold attachment region
- Seasonal allergic rhinitis
- Sexual Attitude ReassessmentSexual Attitude ReassessmentA Sexual Attitude Reassessment, sometimes Sexual Attitude Restructuring, seminar is a process-oriented, structured group experience to promote participants' awareness of their attitudes and values related to sexuality, and to assist them in understanding how these attitudes and values affect them...
- Specific absorption rateSpecific absorption rateSpecific absorption rate is a measure of the rate at which energy is absorbed by the body when exposed to a radio frequency electromagnetic field; although, it can also refer to absorption of other forms of energy by tissue, including ultrasound . It is defined as the power absorbed per mass of...
, a measure of the rate at which RF-energy is absorbed by the human body - Structure-activity relationshipStructure-activity relationshipThe structure–activity relationship is the relationship between the chemical or 3D structure of a molecule and its biological activity. The analysis of SAR enables the determination of the chemical groups responsible for evoking a target biological effect in the organism...
, in pharmacology, medicinal and computational chemistry - Systemic acquired resistanceSystemic acquired resistanceThe systemic acquired resistance is a "whole-plant" resistance response that occurs following an earlier localized exposure to a pathogen. SAR is analogous to the innate immune system found in animals, and there is evidence that SAR in plants and innate immunity in animals may be evolutionarily...
, a "whole-plant" resistance response that occurs following an earlier localized exposure to a pathogen
Computers
- Search and Replace, a feature of text editors
- Segmentation and ReassemblySegmentation and ReassemblySegmentation and Reassembly refers to the process used to fragment and reassemble variable length packets into fixed length cells so as to allow them to be transported across Asynchronous Transfer Mode networks or other cell based infrastructures. Since ATM's payload is only 48 bytes, nearly every...
of data packets in a computer network - Service Archive (.sar), a file format for the JBoss Java application server computer program
- sar (Unix), a Unix/Linux command to display various system loads
- Storage Aspect Ratio of a digital imageDigital imageA digital image is a numeric representation of a two-dimensional image. Depending on whether or not the image resolution is fixed, it may be of vector or raster type...
Law enforcement
- Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting InitiativeNationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting InitiativeThe Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting Initiative is a program of the United States Government used to collect and share reports of suspicious activity by people in the United States....
- Suspicious activity report (banking), filed with the U.S. government by financial institutions
- Suspicious Activity Report (justice and homeland security)Suspicious Activity Report (justice and homeland security)A suspicious activity report is a report of suspicious activity that may either be a terrorist act, a criminal act, or the precursor to either a terrorist act or criminal act. A SAR may be filed by law enforcement, public safety personnel, owners of critical infrastructure or the general public...
, filed with local and federal law enforcement agencies to prevent crime and terrorism
Business
- Saudi riyalSaudi riyalThe Riyal is the currency of Saudi Arabia. It is abbreviated as ر.س or SR . It is subdivided into 100 Halalas . The Saudi Ghirsh is 5 Halalas.-History:...
, the ISO 4217 currency code - South African randSouth African randThe rand is the currency of South Africa. It takes its name from the Witwatersrand , the ridge upon which Johannesburg is built and where most of South Africa's gold deposits were found. The rand has the symbol "R" and is subdivided into 100 cents, symbol "c"...
, officially ZAR but often written as SAR - Parabolic SARParabolic SARIn the field of technical analysis, Parabolic SAR is a method devised by J. Welles Wilder, Jr., to find trends in market prices or securities...
Stop and Reverse indicator, used in technical analysisTechnical analysisIn finance, technical analysis is security analysis discipline for forecasting the direction of prices through the study of past market data, primarily price and volume. Behavioral economics and quantitative analysis incorporate technical analysis, which being an aspect of active management stands...
stock analysis - Stock Appreciation RightStock Appreciation RightStock appreciation rights is a method for companies to give their management or employees a bonus if the company performs well financially. Such a method is called a 'plan'.-Description:...
, a method of rewarding employees
Places
- Sar (river) in Galicia, Spain
- Šar Mountains, a mountain range in southeastern Europe
- Sar, TibetSar, TibetSar is a village in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.-See also:*List of towns and villages in Tibet...
, a village - Sar, BahrainSar, BahrainSar is a village in Bahrain with an affluent residential district alongside a poverty stricken area. It is known to be a town of ambassadors, expatriates and wealthy Bahrainis....
, a residential district - Edwin van der SarEdwin van der SarEdwin van der Sar OON is a former footballer who played as a goalkeeper for AFC Ajax, Juventus, Fulham and Manchester United. He is the most capped player in the Netherlands national football team's history...
, a Dutch international association football goalkeeper - South African RepublicSouth African RepublicThe South African Republic , often informally known as the Transvaal Republic, was an independent Boer-ruled country in Southern Africa during the second half of the 19th century. Not to be confused with the present-day Republic of South Africa, it occupied the area later known as the South African...
(Transvaal Republic) - Syrian Arab Republic
- Special Administrative RegionSpecial administrative regionA special administrative region, or SAR may be:People's Republic of China* Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, self-governing country subdivision in Hong Kong and Macau...
Other uses
- Student Aid Report, sent to applicants of US federal financial aid for college
- Sample of Anonymised Records, based on the UK Population Census
- Search and rescueSearch and rescueSearch and rescue is the search for and provision of aid to people who are in distress or imminent danger.The general field of search and rescue includes many specialty sub-fields, mostly based upon terrain considerations...
, sometimes "Sea Air Rescue", search for and provision of aid to people who are in distress or imminent danger