SAC or Sac may refer to:

Organizations

Education

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 * St. Andrew's College, Aurora, 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 (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 ...

* 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, esta ...

, 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 of a criminal investigation *

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

* Second Artillery Corps, later the People's Liberation Army Rocket Force, China * Shenyang Aircraft Corporation, Chinese aircraft manufacturer * Standardization Administration of China * Securities Association of China

United States

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 * California State Prison, Sacramento *

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 *

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

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 *

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 ...

* South Atlantic Conference * Swiss Alpine Club

Other organizations

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 une ...

(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 * Seoul Arts Center, South Korea * Service d'Action Civique, a Gaullist organisation * Shakespeare Authorship Coalition,'S A C', Claremont,California *

Singapore Accountancy Commission The Singapore Accountancy Commission (SAC) is a statutory body under the Ministry of Finance of the Government of Singapore.

* Societas Apostolatus Catholici, a Catholic religious congregation * Soldiers of Aryan Culture, an American white supremacist prison gang * Songwriters Association of Canada * Space Applications Centre, India * State Affairs Commission of North Korea * Sveriges Arbetares Centralorganisation, a trade union federation in Sweden *

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 * The Society of Arts and Crafts of Boston, US, since 1897

Science and technology

* S-Allyl cysteine, a chemical constituent of garlic *

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 * Source of activation confusion model, in psychology * Spindle assembly checkpoint, 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. electronic passports). SAC specifies the ''Password Authenticated Connection Establishment'' (PACE) p ...

, 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 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 ...

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

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 * Strict Avalanche Criterion in cryptography * Selected Areas in Cryptography, an annual cryptography conference *

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 submission ...

, 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 backwards ...

Biology and medicine

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 ...

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 ...

* Anal sac or anal gland *

Bursa sac ( grc-gre, Προῦσα, Proûsa, Latin: Prusa, ota, بورسه, Arabic:بورصة) is a city in northwestern Turkey and the administrative center of Bursa Province. The fourth-most populous city in Turkey and second-most populous in the ...

or bursa *

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 ...

* Dural sac, a structure of spinal cord * Egg sac, the reproductive structure of a spider * Fecal sac * Gestational sac * Greater sac * Gular skin 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 *

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 *

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 *

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 * Venom sac, in venom-secreting animals * Vestibular sacs (disambiguation) * Viscid sac * Vocal sac *

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

* Sacramento Executive Airport (IATA code) * Sacramento Valley Rail Station (Amtrak station code) * St Albans City railway station (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, 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

* Sac City, Iowa * Sac County, Iowa * Sac River, Missouri * Nickname of

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Other uses

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

Sac language Fox (known by a variety of different names, including Mesquakie (Meskwaki), Mesquakie-Sauk, Mesquakie-Sauk-Kickapoo, Sauk-Fox, and Sac and Fox) is an Algonquian language, spoken by a thousand Meskwaki, Sauk, and Kickapoo in various locations i ...

(ISO 639:sac) * Sac (people), a North American tribe * Sacrifice bunt, in baseball * Slow air chamber, of a Native American flute *

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 * 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 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

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