SAC or Sac may refer to:
Organizations
Education
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Santa Ana College
Santa Ana College is a public community college in Santa Ana, California.
History
In 1915, Santa Ana Junior College opened its doors to 25 students as a department of Santa Ana High School. It was the second community college founded in Orange ...
, California, US
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San Antonio College, Texas, US
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St. Andrew's College, Aurora, Canada
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Students' Administrative Council, University of Toronto, Canada
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SISD Student Activities Complex, in El Paso, Texas, US
* School-assessed coursework for
Victorian Certificate of Education
The Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) is the credential available to secondary school students who successfully complete year 10, 11 and 12 in the Australian state of Victoria (state), Victoria as well as in some international schools i ...
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Student Activity Complex, in Laredo, Texas, US
Government and military
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NATO Strategic Airlift Capability
The Strategic Airlift Capability (SAC) is a multinational initiative that provides its participating nations assured access to military airlift capability to address the growing needs for both strategic airlifts and tactical airlifts.
SAC, est ...
, multinational transport aircraft initiative
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Senior Aircraftman, a Royal Air Force rank
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Senior Assistant Commissioner, a rank in the police of Singapore and Malaysia
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Southern Air Command (India), of the Indian Air Force
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Special Agent in Charge of a criminal investigation
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State Administration Council
The State Administration Council (; abbreviated SAC or နစက) is the military junta currently governing Myanmar, established by Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Min Aung Hlaing following the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, February 2021 c ...
, governing Myanmar after the 2021 coup d'état
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Special advisory committee, of the Canadian government
China
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Second Artillery Corps, later the People's Liberation Army Rocket Force, China
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Shenyang Aircraft Corporation, Chinese aircraft manufacturer
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Standardization Administration of China
The Standardization Administration of China (SAC; ; abbr.: ) is an external name of the State Administration for Market Regulation. Prior to 2018, it was an administrative office under the State Council to exercise administrative responsibil ...
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Securities Association of China
United States
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Special Activities Center
The Special Activities Center (SAC) is the center of the United States Central Intelligence Agency responsible for covert operations. The unit was named Special Activities Division (SAD) prior to a 2015 reorganization. Within SAC there are at l ...
of the CIA
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California State Prison, Sacramento
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Strategic Air Command
Strategic Air Command (SAC) was a United States Department of Defense Specified Command and a United States Air Force (USAF) Major Command responsible for command and control of the strategic bomber and intercontinental ballistic missile compon ...
, active 1946-1992, now an inactive
USAF
The United States Air Force (USAF) is the Air force, air service branch of the United States Department of Defense. It is one of the six United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. Tracing its ori ...
major command (MAJCOM)
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President's Science Advisory Committee
The President's Science Advisory Committee (PSAC) was created on November 21, 1957, by President of the United States Dwight D. Eisenhower, as a direct response to the Soviet launching of the Sputnik 1 and Sputnik 2 satellites. PSAC was an upgra ...
Sports
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Sacramento Kings
The Sacramento Kings are an American professional basketball team based in Sacramento, California. The Kings compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Pacific Division (NBA), Pacific Division of the Western Confere ...
, a National Basketball Association team that uses this abbreviation for box scores and television scoring displays
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Sooner Athletic Conference
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South Atlantic Conference
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Swiss Alpine Club
Other organizations
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Central Organisation of the Workers of Sweden
The Central Organisation of Swedish Workers (; SAC) is a Sweden, Swedish syndicalist National trade union center, trade union federation. The SAC organises people from all occupations and industries in one single federation, including the Unempl ...
(in Swedish: ''Sveriges Arbetares Centralorganisation, SAC - Syndikalisterna'')
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S.A.C. Capital Advisors, a hedge fund managed by Steven A. Cohen
* Satélite Argentino Científico,
Argentine research satellites of Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales
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Scottish Arbitration Centre
The Scottish Arbitration Centre is an independent non-profit company in Edinburgh offering arbitration services to domestic and international clients. The centre exists to promote arbitration in Scotland, and Scotland to the world as a place to co ...
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Seoul Arts Center
The Seoul Arts Center (SAC; ) is an arts complex in Seocho District, Seoul, South Korea. It consists of five main buildings: the Opera House, with three auditoriums; the Music Hall, with two concert halls; the Hangaram Art Museum; the Hangaram D ...
, South Korea
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Service d'Action Civique
The SAC (; or ''Civic Action Service''), officially created in January 1960, was a Gaullist militia founded by Jacques Foccart, Charles de Gaulle's chief adviser for African matters, and , a former Resistant and official director of the group. ...
, a Gaullist organisation
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Shakespeare Authorship Coalition,'S A C', Claremont, California
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Singapore Accountancy Commission
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Societas Apostolatus Catholici, a Catholic religious congregation
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Society of the Catholic Apostolate, or Pallotines, a religious order
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Soldiers of Aryan Culture, an American white supremacist prison gang
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Songwriters Association of Canada
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Space Applications Centre, India
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State Affairs Commission of North Korea
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Sveriges Arbetares Centralorganisation, a trade union federation in Sweden
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Superior Art Creations, a computer art scene group
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The Society of Arts and Crafts of Boston, US, since 1897
Science and technology
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S-Allyl cysteine, a chemical constituent of garlic
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Sac spider, a taxon
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Source of activation confusion model, in psychology
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Spindle assembly checkpoint, in biology
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Tin-silver-copper (SnAgCu), a solder formulation
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Supplemental access control, electronic travel document security features
* Soluble
adenylyl cyclase
Adenylate cyclase (EC 4.6.1.1, also commonly known as adenyl cyclase and adenylyl cyclase, abbreviated AC) is an enzyme with systematic name ATP diphosphate-lyase (cyclizing; 3′,5′-cyclic-AMP-forming). It catalyzes the following reaction:
:A ...
Computing
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SA-C programming language
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S.A.C. (control code), in the 1950s FIELDATA
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SAC programming language
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Special Administration Console of Windows
Emergency Management Services
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Strict Avalanche Criterion in cryptography
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Selected Areas in Cryptography
Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC) is an international cryptography Academic conference, conference (originally a workshop) held every August in Canada since 1994. The first workshop was organized by Carlisle Adams, Henk Meijer, Stafford Tavares ...
, an annual cryptography conference
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Symposium on Applied Computing, an annual conference
* Spatial Audio Coding or
MPEG Surround
Biology and medicine
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SAC (gene)
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Air sac
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Amniotic sac
The amniotic sac, also called the bag of waters or the membranes, is the sac in which the embryo and later fetus develops in amniotes. It is a thin but tough transparent pair of biological membrane, membranes that hold a developing embryo (and l ...
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Anal sac or anal gland
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Bursa sac or bursa
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Chorion
The chorion is the outermost fetal membrane around the embryo in mammals, birds and reptiles (amniotes). It is also present around the embryo of other animals, like insects and molluscs.
Structure
In humans and other therian mammals, the cho ...
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Dural sac, a structure of spinal cord
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Egg sac, the reproductive structure of a spider
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Fecal sac
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Gestational sac
The gestational sac is the large cavity of fluid surrounding the embryo. During early embryogenesis, it consists of the extraembryonic coelom, also called the chorionic cavity. The gestational sac is normally contained within the uterus. It is the ...
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Greater sac
In human anatomy, the greater sac, also known as the general cavity (of the abdomen) or peritoneum of the peritoneal cavity proper, is the cavity in the abdomen that is inside the peritoneum but outside the lesser sac.
It is connected with the ...
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Gular skin or throat sac
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Ink sac
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Lacrimal sac
The lacrimal sac or lachrymal 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. It connects the lacrimal canaliculi, which drain tears from th ...
, eye-and-nose-associated structure
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Lesser sac
The lesser sac, also known as the omental bursa, is a part of the peritoneal cavity that is formed by the lesser omentum, lesser and greater omentum. Usually found in mammals, it is connected with the greater sac via the omental foramen or ''For ...
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Ovule
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'' (or remnant of the sporangium, megasporangium), ...
or embryo sac
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Pleural cavity
The pleural cavity, or pleural space (or sometimes intrapleural space), is the potential space between the pleurae of the pleural sac that surrounds each lung. A small amount of serous pleural fluid is maintained in the pleural cavity to enabl ...
or pleural sac
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Synovial sac, joint component
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Venom sac, in venom-secreting animals
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Vestibular sacs (disambiguation)
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Viscid sac
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Vocal sac
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Yolk sac
The yolk sac is a membranous wikt:sac, sac attached to an embryo, formed by cells of the hypoblast layer of the bilaminar embryonic disc. This is alternatively called the umbilical vesicle by the Terminologia Embryologica (TE), though ''yolk sac' ...
Transportation
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Sacramento Executive Airport (IATA code)
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Sacramento Valley Rail Station (Amtrak station code)
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St Albans City railway station (National Rail station code)
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Sports activity coupe, a BMW class of cars
* Self-adjusting clutch in the
BMW 5 Series
Places
United States
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Sac City, Iowa
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Sac County, Iowa
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Sac River, Missouri
* Nickname of
Sacramento, California
Sacramento ( or ; ; ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital city of the U.S. state of California and the county seat, seat of Sacramento County, California, Sacramento County. Located at the confluence of the Sacramento Rive ...
Other places
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St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast
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St Anne's Cathedral, Debrecen
Other uses
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Sač
A Sač ( cyrl, Сач; ) is a large metal or ceramic lid like a shallow bell with which bread dough or various dishes to be baked are covered, and over which ashes and live coals are placed. Dishes prepared in a ''sač'' are evenly cooked, retai ...
, a baking vessel in the Balkans and the Middle East
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Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex'' (and ''GITS: SAC'' ''2nd GIG''), a Japanese TV series
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Sac language (ISO 639:sac)
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Sac (people)
The Sauk or Sac (Sauk language, Sauk: ''Thâkîwaki'') are Native Americans in the United States, Native Americans and Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands. Their historical territory was near Green Bay, Wisconsin. Today they have t ...
, a North American tribe
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Sacrifice bunt
In baseball, a sacrifice bunt (also called a sacrifice hit) is a batter's act of deliberately bunting the ball, before there are two outs, in a manner that allows a baserunner to advance to another base. The batter is almost always put out, a ...
, in baseball
* Slow air chamber, of a
Native American flute
The Native American flute is a musical instrument and flute that is held in front of the player, has open finger holes,
and has two chambers: one for collecting the breath of the player and a second chamber which creates sound.
The player breat ...
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Special Area of Conservation
A special area of conservation (SAC) is defined in the European Union's Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC), also known as the ''Directive on the Conservation of Natural Habitats and of Wild Fauna and Flora''. They are to protect the 220 habitats and ap ...
, in the EU and UK
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Summit Athletic Conference (IHSAA), Fort Wayne, Indiana, US
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SAC-46 (handgun)
The SAC-46 (aka: Flying Dragon and "Gun, Dart, Carbon Dioxide Propelled") is an United States of America, American clandestine handgun from 1945 which was developed for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a predecessor to the Central Intelli ...
, pistol, USA, 1945
See also
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Sack (disambiguation)
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