SAC or Sac may refer to:

Organizations

Education

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 * San Antonio College, Texas, US *

St. Andrew's College, Aurora St. Andrew's College (SAC) is an independent boarding and day school founded in 1899 and located in Aurora, Ontario, Canada. It is a university-preparatory school for boys in grades 5 to 12, with a focus on academic achievement, athletics, and l ...

, Canada * Students' Administrative Council, University of Toronto, Canada * 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 ...

* Student Activity Complex, in Laredo, Texas, US

Government and military

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 * Senior Aircraftman, a Royal Air Force rank * Senior Assistant Commissioner, a rank in the police of Singapore and Malaysia * Southern Air Command (India), of the Indian Air Force *

Special Agent in Charge In the United States, a special agent is an official title used to refer to certain investigators or detectives of federal, military, tribal, or state agencies who primarily serve in criminal investigatory positions. Additionally, some special ...

of a criminal investigation *

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 *

Special advisory committee Special Advisory Committee (SAC) is the term given to ad-hoc groups formed in Canadian government circles to provide advice and consultation, especially public health as governed by the Public Health Agency of Canada. History The SACs invariably h ...

, of the Canadian government

China

Second Artillery Corps The People's Liberation Army Rocket Force, 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 controls Ch ...

, later the People's Liberation Army Rocket Force, China *

Shenyang Aircraft Corporation Shenyang Aircraft Corporation (SAC) is a Chinese aircraft manufacturer in Shenyang, Liaoning and a subsidiary of AVIC. Founded in 1951 as the classified 112 Factory, it is the oldest aircraft manufacturer in the People's Republic of China. The ...

, Chinese aircraft manufacturer *

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 ...

Securities Association of China The Securities Association of China (SAC; ) is a self-regulatory organization for securities industry established according to the provisions of the "Securities Law of the People's Republic of China" and the "Administrative Regulations on the Regi ...

United States

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 *

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 Fo ...

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) *

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

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 *

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 13 ...

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 ...

Swiss Alpine Club The Swiss Alpine Club (, , , ) is the largest mountaineering club in Switzerland. It was founded in 1863 in Olten and it is now composed of 110 sections with 174,726 members (2023). These include the Association of British Members of the Swiss ...

Other organizations

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'') * 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 *

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 ...

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 *

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 * Shakespeare Authorship Coalition,'S A C', Claremont, California * Singapore Accountancy Commission * Societas Apostolatus Catholici, a Catholic religious congregation * Society of the Catholic Apostolate, or Pallotines, a religious order * Soldiers of Aryan Culture, an American white supremacist prison gang * Songwriters Association of Canada *

Space Applications Centre 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 demonstration ...

, India *

State Affairs Commission of North Korea The State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (SAC) is constitutionally the supreme political authority of North Korea. The State Affairs Commission was created by 2016 amendments to the Socialist Constitution of the ...

Sveriges Arbetares Centralorganisation 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 ...

, a trade union federation in Sweden * Superior Art Creations, a computer art scene group * The Society of Arts and Crafts of Boston, US, since 1897

Science and technology

* S-Allyl cysteine, a chemical constituent of garlic * Sac spider, a taxon * Source of activation confusion model, in psychology *

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 metaphase of mitosis or meiosis that preven ...

, in biology * Tin-silver-copper (SnAgCu), a solder formulation *

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. Biometric passport, electronic passports). SAC specifies the ''Password Authenticated Connection Estab ...

, 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

* SA-C programming language * S.A.C. (control code), in the 1950s FIELDATA *

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 ar ...

* Special Administration Console of Windows

Emergency Management Services 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 BIOS ...

* Strict Avalanche Criterion in cryptography *

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 * Symposium on Applied Computing, an annual conference * Spatial Audio Coding or

MPEG Surround MPEG Surround (ISO/IEC 23003-1 or MPEG-D Part 1), also known as Spatial Audio Coding (SAC), 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 backwar ...

Biology and medicine

* SAC (gene) * Air sac *

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 ...

* Anal sac or anal gland * Bursa sac or bursa *

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 ...

Dural sac The thecal sac or dural sac is the membranous sheath (theca) or tube of dura mater that surrounds the spinal cord and the cauda equina. The thecal sac contains the cerebrospinal fluid which provides nutrients and buoyancy to the spinal cord. ...

, a structure of spinal cord * Egg sac, the reproductive structure of a spider *

Fecal sac A fecal sac (also spelled faecal 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 Feces, fecal material from the bird n ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 *

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 ...

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 *

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 ...

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 *

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 * Synovial sac, joint component * Venom sac, in venom-secreting animals * Vestibular sacs (disambiguation) * Viscid sac *

Vocal sac The vocal sac is the flexible Biological membrane, 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 voca ...

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

* Sacramento Executive Airport (IATA code) * Sacramento Valley Rail Station (Amtrak station code) *

St Albans City railway station St Albans City railway station is one of two stations serving St Albans in Hertfordshire, England, the other being . It is the larger of the two, on the Midland Main Line from London St Pancras, served by Govia Thameslink trains on the Tha ...

(National Rail station code) * 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. It is the successor to the BMW New Class sedans and is currently in its eighth generation. The car is sold as either a sedan or, since 1991, a station wagon (marke ...

Places

United States

* Sac City, Iowa *

Sac County, Iowa Sac County is a County (United States), county located in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 9,814. The county seat is Sac City, Iowa, Sac City. Both were named for the Sauk people, a lo ...

Sac River The Sac River (pronounced sock) is a river in the Ozarks of Southwest Missouri. It is long,U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed May 31, 2011 with headwaters in western Gree ...

, 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

St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast Belfast Cathedral, () also known as St Anne's Cathedral (), is a Romanesque architecture, Romanesque-style Church of Ireland, Anglican cathedral in Donegall Street, Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is unusual in serving two separate dioceses (Dioc ...

* St Anne's Cathedral, Debrecen

Other uses

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 * '' Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex'' (and ''GITS: SAC'' ''2nd GIG''), a Japanese TV series * Sac language (ISO 639:sac) *

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 *

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 ...

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 * Summit Athletic Conference (IHSAA), Fort Wayne, Indiana, US *

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

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