Sol or SOL may refer to:

Astronomy

* The

Sun The Sun is the star at the centre of the Solar System. It is a massive, nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions in its core, radiating the energy from its surface mainly as visible light a ...

Mars sol Sol (borrowed from the Latin word for sun) is a solar day on Mars; that is, a Mars-day. A sol is the apparent interval between two successive returns of the Sun to the same meridian (sundial time) as seen by an observer on Mars. It is one of sev ...

, solar day on Mars *

Solar System The Solar SystemCapitalization of the name varies. The International Astronomical Union, the authoritative body regarding astronomical nomenclature, specifies capitalizing the names of all individual astronomical objects but uses mixed "Sola ...

Currency

* SOL Project, a currency project in France *

French sol The sol, later called a sou, is the name of a number of different coins, for accounting or payment, dating from Antiquity to today. The name is derived from the late-Roman and Byzantine solidus. Its longevity of use anchored it in many expressio ...

, or sou * Argentine sol * Bolivian sol, the currency of Bolivia from 1827 to 1864 * Peruvian sol, introduced in 1991 * Peruvian sol (1863–1985) * Solana (blockchain platform) (SOL), a cryptocurrency

Entertainment, arts and media

Music

* Sol (musical note) or G, a note of the solfege music scale * Sol (band), a Canadian indie rock band active in the 1990s * Sol Band or simply Sol, Palestinian folk-pop band * ''Sol'' (album), an album by electronic musician Eskmo * ''Sol'', an album by Ougenweide * ''Shit Out of Luck'', a 1996 album by The Lillingtons * "Sol", a 2005 song by American post-metal band Rosetta from the album '' The Galilean Satellites'' * "Sol", a 2014 song by American metalcore band Invent Animate from the album ''

Everchanger ''Everchanger'' is the debut studio album by American metalcore band Invent Animate. The album was released on August 22, 2014, through Tragic Hero Records. It was produced by Brian Hood ( Being as an Ocean, Gideon, The Crimson Armada) and ...

'' * "Sol", a 2022 song by British metalcore band Oceans Ate Alaska from the album '' Disparity''

Gaming

* '' The Shadows of Luclin'', sometimes referred to as ''SoL'', an expansion to the ''Everquest'' computer game * Sol Badguy, a character in the ''Guilty Gear'' video games * ''Sol Squadron'', an enemy squadron in the video game Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown

Newspapers

* ''Sol'' (newspaper), a weekly newspaper published in Portugal * ''soL'' (newspaper), a daily left-leaning newspaper published in Turkey

Other uses in arts and entertainment

Sol (comedian) Sol is a fictional character written for and performed on stage and television by the Canadian actor Marc Favreau. Sol is a clown (tramp type) who handily deconstructs the French language, to the amusement of adults as well as children. In his ...

, a creation of Marc Favreau * ''Sol'' (film), a 2014 Canadian documentary * Sol, a cat in ''Warriors'' (novel series)

Mythology

Sol (Roman mythology) Sol is the personification of the Sun and a god in ancient Roman religion. It was long thought that Rome actually had two different, consecutive sun gods: The first, Sol Indiges (), was thought to have been unimportant, disappearing altogether ...

, a Roman sun god *

Sól (Germanic mythology) Sól (Old Norse: , "Sun")Orchard (1997:152). or Sunna (Old High German, and existing as an Old Norse and Icelandic synonym: see Wiktionary wikt:sunna, sunna, "Sun") is the Solar deity, Sun personified in Germanic mythology. One of the two Old Hig ...

, a Germanic sun goddess

People

Sol (given name) Sol is a given name, usually a form of "Solomon Solomon (), also called Jedidiah, was the fourth monarch of the Kingdom of Israel (united monarchy), Kingdom of Israel and Judah, according to the Hebrew Bible. The successor of his father Davi ...

, a given name *

Sol (Korean surname) Seol (also spelled as Sul or Sol) is a Korean family name, spelled 설 in hangul and 薛 or 偰 in hanja. People who have this name include * Amy Sol (born 1981), American artist * Seol Chong (650–730), Silla Dynasty scholar * Sul Hoon (bo ...

* Sol., author citation (botany) for Daniel Solander (1733–1782), Swedish botanical author * Sol (musician), hip hop performer Sol Moravia-Rosenberg * Oliver Lieb (born 1969), sometimes known as S.O.L., German electronic music producer and DJ * Taeyang or SOL (born 1988), Korean singer

Politics

* Senator On-Line, an Australian political party * Left Party (Turkey) (''SOL Parti''), a communist party * The Social Liberals (Austria), a minor political party

Science and technology

Computing

* Secure Operations Language * Serial over LAN * Simple Object Language, the ancestor of Lua programming language * sol (format), a file format for presenting solutions of mathematical programming problems *

Sol-20 The Sol-20 was the first fully assembled microcomputer with a built-in keyboard and television output, what would later be known as a home computer. The design was the integration of an Intel 8080-based motherboard, a VDM-1 graphics card, the 3 ...

, an early microcomputer produced by the Processor Technology Corporation * Sol (laptop), a solar-powered laptop by WeWi Telecommunications * .sol, a

local shared object A local shared object (LSO), commonly called a Flash cookie (due to its similarity with an HTTP cookie), is a piece of data that websites that use Adobe Flash may store on a user's computer. Local shared objects have been used by all versions o ...

file format * /, the XML/HTML character entity for the

slash (punctuation) The slash is a slanting line punctuation mark . It is also known as a stroke, a solidus, a forward slash and #Alternative names, several other historical or technical names. Once used as the equivalent of the modern full stop, period and comma ...

Medicine

Sleep onset latency In sleep science, sleep onset latency (SOL) is the length of time that it takes to accomplish the transition from full wakefulness to sleep, normally to the lightest of the non-REM sleep stages. Sleep latency studies Pioneering Stanford Univers ...

- length of time of the transition from full wakefulness to sleep * Space-occupying lesion of the brain can be caused by different pathology such as a malignancy, an abscess or a haematoma

Other uses in science and technology

* Sol (colloid), a type of suspension *

Sol geometry In mathematics, Thurston's geometrization conjecture (now a theorem) states that each of certain three-dimensional topological spaces has a unique geometry, geometric structure that can be associated with it. It is an analogue of the uniformiza ...

, a three-dimensional Riemannian manifold * Safety service, safety-of-life service (SoL)

Sports

* Austin Sol, an Ultimate Frisbee Association team *

Los Angeles Sol The Los Angeles Sol was an American professional association football, soccer club that was based in the Los Angeles suburb of Carson, California, that participated in Women's Professional Soccer. The team was co-owned and operated by Anschutz E ...

, a defunct professional soccer team *

Miami Sol The Miami Sol were a professional women's basketball team that was based in Miami and entered the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) in 2000. They played their games at American Airlines Arena as the sister team to the Miami Heat of the ...

, a defunct Women's National Basketball Association team * Sonoma County Sol, an American soccer team

Transportation

* Sol (car marque), a car brand in the Chinese market * Sol Líneas Aéreas, an airline in Argentina * Sol Linhas Aéreas, an airline in Brazil * Sol (Madrid Metro), a station on Line 1, 2 and 3 * Solana Beach station, a train station serving Solana Beach, California * Stratford–Okahukura Line, a secondary railway line in New Zealand *

Honda CR-X del Sol The Honda CR-X del Sol (marketed in other markets as the Honda Civic del Sol, Honda del Sol and the Honda CRX) is a two-seater targa-top car manufactured by Honda from 1992 until 1998. Despite the body resemblance to a mid-engine car design, the ...

, a small car manufactured by Honda

Other uses

Statute of limitations A statute of limitations, known in civil law systems as a prescriptive period, is a law passed by a legislative body to set the maximum time after an event within which legal proceedings may be initiated. ("Time for commencing proceedings") In ...

, in criminal prosecution * Skilled Occupation List, skilled occupations acceptable for migration to Australia * Standards of Learning, a set of standards Virginia students must meet before graduation * California State Prison, Solano (SOL), United States * '' Service d'ordre légionnaire'', a collaborationist militia in Vichy, France * Soľ, a village in eastern Slovakia * Sol (river), a river in Russia *

Society for Organizational Learning The Society for Organizational Learning (SoL) is an American organization founded in 1997 by Peter Senge. It replaced the Center for Organizational Learning at MIT. From 1999 until 2016, SoL published its own journal, "Reflections". Its European C ...

, an American organization working on corporate sustainability * Sol, an additional summer month in the proposed International Fixed Calendar * Sol, a beer produced by the Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma Brewery *

Solomon Islands Solomon Islands, also known simply as the Solomons,John Prados, ''Islands of Destiny'', Dutton Caliber, 2012, p,20 and passim is an island country consisting of six major islands and over 1000 smaller islands in Melanesia, part of Oceania, t ...

, IOC * The Sol Foundation, a think tank based in California