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 Oran ...
, California, US
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San Antonio College
San Antonio College (SAC) is a public community college in San Antonio, Texas. It is part of the Alamo Colleges District and the oldest public two-year college in Texas. The college has an average semester enrollment of 22,028 credit students an ...
, 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 (often abbreviated VCE) is one credential available to secondary school students who successfully complete year 11 and 12 in the Australian state of Victoria. The VCE is the predominant choice for student ...
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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, esta ...
, multinational transport aircraft initiative
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Senior Aircraftman
Senior aircraftman (SAC) or senior aircraftwoman (SACW) was a rank in the Royal Air Force, ranking between leading aircraftman and senior aircraftman technician (SAC(T)) (although SACs in non-technical trades progress directly to corporal) an ...
, 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)
The Southern Air Command (SAC) of the Indian Air Force (IAF) is headquartered in Thiruvananthapuram, which is on the southwestern side of India. This is one among the seven commands of IAF. This command was started on 19 July 1984 and is relative ...
, 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 ( my, နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီ; abbreviated SAC or နစက) is the military junta currently governing Myanmar, established by Comm ...
, governing Myanmar after the 2021 coup d'état
China
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Second Artillery Corps
The People's Liberation Army Rocket Force (PLARF; ), formerly the Second Artillery Corps (), is the strategic and tactical missile force of the People's Republic of China. The PLARF is the 4th branch of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and c ...
, 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 the standards organization authorized by the State Council of China to exercise administrative responsibilities by undertaking unified management, supervision and overall coordinat ...
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Securities Association of China
United States
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Special Activities Center
The Special Activities Center (SAC) is a division of the United States Central Intelligence Agency responsible for covert and paramilitary operations. The unit was named Special Activities Division (SAD) prior to 2015. Within SAC there are two ...
of the CIA
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California State Prison, Sacramento
California State Prison, Sacramento (SAC) 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 F ...
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Strategic Air Command
Strategic Air Command (SAC) was both 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 c ...
, a nuclear-armed force active 1946-1992
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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 upgr ...
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 Western Conference Pacific Division. The Kings are the oldest ...
, Basketball team, California, US
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Sooner Athletic Conference
The Sooner Athletic Conference (SAC) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). Originally developed as a five-team conference of Oklahoma-based schools, the SAC now boasts 12 s ...
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South Atlantic Conference
The South Atlantic Conference (SAC) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division II level, which operates in the southeastern United States. The SAC was founded in 1975 as a ...
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Swiss Alpine Club
The Swiss Alpine Club (german: Schweizer Alpen-Club, french: Club Alpin Suisse, it, Club Alpino Svizzero, rm, Club Alpin Svizzer) is the largest mountaineering club in Switzerland. It was founded in 1863 in Olten and it is now composed of 111 ...
Other organizations
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Central Organisation of the Workers of Sweden
SAC Syndikalisterna ( sv, Sveriges Arbetares Centralorganisation) is a syndicalist trade union federation in Sweden. Unlike other Swedish unions, SAC organises people from all occupations and industries in one single federation, including the un ...
(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, also referred to as SAC, is an arts complex in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, in South Korea. It consists of five main buildings: the Opera House, with three auditoriums; the Music Hall, with two concert halls; the Han ...
, South Korea
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Service d'Action Civique
The SAC (french: Service d'Action Civique; 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 ...
, a Gaullist organisation
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Shakespeare Authorship Coalition
William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's nation ...
,'S A C', Claremont,California
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Societas Apostolatus Catholici
The Pallottines officially named the Society of the Catholic Apostolate ( la, Societas Apostolatus Catholici), abbreviated SAC is a Society of Apostolic Life of Pontifical Right for men in the Roman Catholic Church, founded in 1835 by the Roman C ...
, a Catholic religious congregation
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Soldiers of Aryan Culture
The Soldiers of Aryan Culture (SAC), sometimes referred to as Soldiers of the Aryan Culture and Soldiers of an Aryan Culture, is a large American white supremacist prison gang.
Initially based in Utah, SAC has since spread across the nation, ha ...
, an American white supremacist prison gang
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Songwriters Association of Canada
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Space Applications Centre
The Space Applications Centre (SAC) is an institution of research in Ahmedabad under the aegis of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). It is one of the major centres of ISRO that is engaged in the research, development and demonstra ...
, India
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State Affairs Commission of North Korea
The State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (SAC) is defined by the Constitution of North Korea, 2016 constitution as "the supreme policy-oriented leadership body of State power."
The current President of the State A ...
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Sveriges Arbetares Centralorganisation, a trade union federation in Sweden
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Superior Art Creations
Superior Art Creations (SAC) is an underground artscene group which caters primarily to and is well known within the warez scene. SAC members have made, besides ANSI and ASCII art, VGA bitmap graphics, tracker music, and a variety of other works. ...
, a computer art scene group
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The Society of Arts and Crafts of Boston
The Society of Arts and Crafts is one of America's oldest arts and craft nonprofit organization. The Society moved to Boston's Seaport District in 2016 after being located on Newbury Street for over 40 years. The Society was incorporated by twenty ...
, US, since 1897
Science and technology
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S-Allyl cysteine, a chemical constituent of garlic
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Sac spider
The 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 and conical anter ...
, a taxon
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Source of activation confusion model, in psychology
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Spindle assembly checkpoint
The spindle checkpoint, also known as the metaphase-to-anaphase transition, the spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC), the metaphase checkpoint, or the mitotic checkpoint, is a cell cycle checkpoint during mitosis or meiosis that prevents the separa ...
, in biology
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Tin-silver-copper (SnAgCu), a solder formulation
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Supplemental access control Supplemental access control (SAC) is a set of security features defined by ICAO
for protecting data contained in electronic travel documents (e.g. electronic passports). SAC specifies the ''Password Authenticated Connection Establishment'' (PACE) p ...
, electronic travel document security features
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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
Single Assignment C (SA-C) (pronounced "sassy") is a member of the C programming language family designed to be directly and intuitively translatable into circuits, including FPGA
A field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is an integrated circu ...
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S.A.C. (control code), in the 1950s FIELDATA
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SAC programming language
SAC (Single Assignment C) is a strict purely functional programming language whose design is focused on the needs of numerical applications. Emphasis is laid on efficient support for array processing via data parallelism. Efficiency concerns are ...
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Special Administration Console Emergency Management Services (EMS) provides an RS-232 accessible serial console interface to the bootloader menu on modern versions of Microsoft Windows.
During system installation of Windows Server 2003, EMS is enabled per default in case BIO ...
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 conference (originally a workshop) held every August in Canada since 1994. The first workshop was organized by Carlisle Adams, Henk Meijer, Stafford Tavares and Paul van Oors ...
, an annual cryptography conference
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Symposium on Applied Computing The 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 ...
, an annual conference
* Spatial Audio Coding or
MPEG Surround
Biology and medicine
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SAC (gene)
Adenylyl cyclase 10 also known as ADCY10 is an enzyme that, in humans, is encoded by the ''ADCY10'' gene.
Function
The protein encoded by this gene belongs to a distinct class of mammalian adenylyl cyclase that is soluble and insensitive to ...
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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 membranes that hold a developing embryo (and later fetus) until sh ...
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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 develops from an outer fold on the surface of the yolk sac, which lies outside the zona pellucida (in mammals), known as the vitellin ...
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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 o ...
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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
Gular skin (throat skin), in ornithology, is an area of featherless skin on birds that joins the lower mandible of the beak (or ''bill'') to the bird's neck. Other vertebrate taxa may have a comparable anatomical structure that is referred to as ...
or throat sac
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Ink sac
An ink sac is an anatomical feature that is found in many cephalopod mollusks used to produce the defensive cephalopod ink. With the exception of nocturnal and very deep water cephalopods, all Coleoidea (squid, octopus and cuttlefish) which dwell ...
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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 and greater omentum. Usually found in mammals, it is connected with the greater sac via the omental foramen or ''Foramen of Win ...
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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 megasporangium), and the f ...
or embryo sac
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Pleural cavity
The pleural cavity, pleural space, or interpleural 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 enable lubrication b ...
or pleural sac
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Synovial sac
The 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 li ...
, 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
The vocal sac is the flexible membrane of skin possessed by most male frogs and toads. The purpose of the vocal sac is usually as an amplification of their mating or advertisement call. The presence or development of the vocal sac is one way o ...
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Yolk sac
The yolk sac is a membranous 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'' is fa ...
Transportation
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Sacramento Executive Airport
Sacramento Executive Airport is a public airport three miles (5 km) south of downtown Sacramento, in Sacramento County, California, United States. The airport covers and has two lit runways and a helipad.
History
When it opened in 1930 Exe ...
(IATA code)
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Sacramento Valley Rail Station (Amtrak station code)
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St Albans City railway station
St Albans City railway station, also known simply as St Albans, is one of two railway stations serving the city of St Albans in Hertfordshire, England (the other being ). The 'City' station is the larger of the two, as it is on the better-con ...
(National Rail station code)
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Sports activity coupe, a BMW class of cars
* Self-adjusting clutch in the
BMW 5 Series
The BMW 5 Series is an executive car manufactured and marketed by BMW since 1972, succeeding the New Class Sedans, and currently in its seventh generation.
The 5 Series was initially available as a sedan, with a wagon/estate body style (market ...
Places
United States
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Sac City, Iowa
Sac City is a city in and the county seat of Sac County, Iowa, United States, located just southwest of the eastern intersection of U.S. Routes 20 and 71 in the rolling hills along the valley of the North Raccoon River. The city is one of 45 d ...
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Sac County, Iowa
Sac County is a county located in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2020 census, the population was 9,814. The county seat is Sac City. Both were named for the Sauk people, a local American Indian tribe.
In February 2007, in its third annu ...
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Sac River, Missouri
* Nickname of
Sacramento, California
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Other uses
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Sač
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, retain t ...
, 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 are a group of Native Americans of the Eastern Woodlands culture group, who lived primarily in the region of what is now Green Bay, Wisconsin, when first encountered by the French in 1667. Their autonym is oθaakiiwaki, and th ...
, 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, an ...
, in baseball
* Slow air chamber, of a
Native American flute
The Native American flute is a 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 breathes into one end of th ...
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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 a ...
, 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 American clandestine handgun from 1945 which was developed for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a predecessor to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Design ...
, pistol, USA, 1945
See also
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Sack (disambiguation)
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