Sox most often refers to: *

Boston Red Sox The Boston Red Sox are an American professional baseball team based in Boston. The Red Sox compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) East division. Founded in as one of the American League's eig ...

, an MLB team *

Chicago White Sox The Chicago White Sox are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago. The White Sox compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) Central division. The team is owned by Jerry Reinsdorf, and ...

, an MLB team * An alternate spelling of

socks A sock is a piece of clothing worn on the feet and often covering the ankle or some part of the calf. Some types of shoes or boots are typically worn over socks. In ancient times, socks were made from leather or matted animal hair. In the lat ...

Sox may also refer to:

Places

* SOX, Sogamoso Airport's IATA airport code, an airport in Colombia

Computing and technology

SOX (operating system) SOX is a discontinued UNIX clone. It was developed from scratch in Brazil, in the late 1980s, by ''Computadores e Sistemas Brasileiros S/A'' (now Cobra Tecnologia), under the leadership of Ivan da Costa Marques. Certified as UNIX-compatible by ...

, a UNIX clone developed in Brazil in 1980s * SoX or Sound eXchange, a computer program for audio manipulation * Schema for Object-Oriented XML, an XML schema language *

Singapore Open Exchange The Singapore Open Exchange (SOX) is an Internet Exchange Point (IXP) situated in Singapore. It was established on 3 September 2001. SOX is a non-profit, neutral, and independent peering network. Members SOX has 29 members: See also *Lis ...

, or SOX *

Simple Outline XML Simple Outline XML (SOX) is a compressed way of writing XML. SOX uses indenting to represent the structure of an XML document, eliminating the need for closing tags. Example The following XHTML markup fragment: Sample page A very brie ...

, an alternative XML syntax

Finance and law

* PHLX Semiconductor Sector, a widely used stock market index *

Sarbanes–Oxley Act The Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002 is a United States federal law that mandates certain practices in financial record keeping and reporting for corporations. The act, (), also known as the "Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protecti ...

of 2002, a United States federal securities law

Sports and related topics

Black Sox Scandal The Black Sox Scandal was a Major League Baseball game-fixing scandal in which eight members of the Chicago White Sox were accused of throwing the 1919 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds in exchange for money from a gambling syndicate le ...

, a 1919 baseball match fixing incident *

Bowie Baysox The Bowie Baysox are a Minor League Baseball team located in Bowie, Maryland. They are the Double-A affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles, and play in the Eastern League. Their home ballpark is Prince George's Stadium. History From 1989 to 1992, ...

, a US minor league baseball team *

Bristol White Sox The Bristol Pirates were a Minor League Baseball team in Bristol, Virginia, United States. They were a Rookie-level team in the Appalachian League. The team played home games at DeVault Memorial Stadium. Opened in 1969, Devault Memorial Stadium ...

, a US minor league baseball team * Butler BlueSox, playing in the Prospect League *

, an American baseball team *

Colorado Springs Sky Sox The Colorado Springs Sky Sox were a Minor League Baseball team in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The team played in the Pacific Coast League (PCL) and was the Triple-A affiliate of the major league Milwaukee Brewers (2015–2018), Colorado Rocki ...

, a US minor league baseball team *

Colorado Springs Sky Sox (Western League) The Colorado Springs Sky Sox were a Minor League Baseball team in Colorado Springs, Colorado, from 1950 to 1958. The team played in the Class A Western League as a farm team for the Chicago White Sox. The Sky Sox, named for their association ...

, a defunct American minor league baseball team *

Everett AquaSox The Everett AquaSox are a Minor League Baseball team in Everett, Washington. The team is a member of the Northwest League and is affiliated with the Seattle Mariners. The AquaSox play their home games at Funko Field, which has a seating capacity ...

, a US American minor league baseball team * Holyoke Blue Sox, a college-level team playing in the NECBL * New Bedford Bay Sox, a college-level team playing in the NECBL *

Pawtucket Red Sox The Pawtucket Red Sox, known colloquially as the PawSox, were a professional minor league baseball club based in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. From 1973 to 2020, the team was a member of the International League and served as the Triple-A affiliate ...

, a US minor league baseball team *

Salem Red Sox The Salem Red Sox are a Minor League Baseball affiliate of the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball (MLB), based in Salem, an independent city adjacent to Roanoke, Virginia. The team competes at the Single-A level in the Carolina League. Hom ...

, a US minor league baseball team *

South Bend Blue Sox The South Bend Blue Sox was a women's professional baseball team who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. A founding member, the team represented South Bend, Indiana, and played their home games at Bendix Fi ...

, a former girls' team 1943-1954 *

Yarmouth–Dennis Red Sox The Yarmouth–Dennis Red Sox, or Y-D Red Sox, are a collegiate summer baseball team based in South Yarmouth, Massachusetts. The team is a member of the Cape Cod Baseball League (CCBL) and plays in the league's East Division. The Red Sox play thei ...

, playing in the CCBL

Science

* Cancelled SOX experiment in neutrino physics, Borexino detector, Italy *

SOX gene family ''SOX'' genes ('' SRY''-related HMG-box genes) encode a family of transcription factors that bind to the minor groove in DNA, and belong to a super-family of genes characterized by a homologous sequence called the HMG-box (for high mobility ...

* Several

Sulfur oxide Sulfur oxide refers to many types of sulfur and oxygen containing compounds such as SO, SO2, SO3, S7O2, S6O2, S2O2, etc. Sulfur oxide (SO''x'') refers to one or more of the following: * Lower sulfur oxides (S''n''O, S7O2 and S6O2) * Sulfur mono ...

s ( or SOx)

Other uses

* Sox, a 1995 pop group led by

Samantha Fox Samantha Karen Fox (born 15 April 1966) is an English pop singer and former glamour model from East London. She rose to public attention aged 16, when her mother entered her photographs in an amateur modelling contest run by '' The Sunday Peop ...

* SOX, a type of low-pressure

Sodium-vapor lamp A sodium-vapor lamp is a gas-discharge lamp that uses sodium in an excited state to produce light at a characteristic wavelength near 589 nm. Two varieties of such lamps exist: low pressure and high pressure. Low-pressure sodium lamps ar ...

* Sox, robotic feline character from the 2022 American 3D-animated film ''

Lightyear A light-year, alternatively spelled light year, is a large unit of length used to express astronomical distances and is equivalent to about 9.46 trillion kilometers (), or 5.88 trillion miles ().One trillion here is taken to be 1012 ...