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People

  • Stuart Adam Campbell, a famous gamer who got 30 days playtime within two months of MW2's release in 2009

Computers

  • Symposium on Applied Computing
    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 has dropped from 54%-67% to below 30% in the 2008...

    , an annual conference sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing
  • Selected Areas in Cryptography
    Selected Areas in Cryptography
    Selected Areas in Cryptography is a series of international cryptography workshops held annually in Canada, every August since 1994. Through 1999, it was held at either Queen's University or Carleton University; the locations have varied more in recent years...

    , an annual cryptography workshop series
  • Superior Art Creations
    Superior Art Creations
    Superior Art Creations is an underground artscene group which caters primarily to and is well known within the warez scene.-Origin and brief history:...

    , an underground group of computer art scene enthusiasts

Education

  • Saint Aloysius College, Catholic Private School in Adelaide, South Australia
  • San Antonio College
    San Antonio College
    San Antonio College is a community college that is a part of the Alamo Community College District. It is located on San Pedro Avenue, across from San Pedro Park, near downtown San Antonio. SAC is the oldest public two-year college in Texas...

    , a College of the Alamo Community Colleges in San Antonio, Texas
  • Scottish Agricultural College
    Scottish Agricultural College
    The Scottish Agricultural College exists to support the development of land-based industries and communities through Higher Education and training, specialist research and development and advisory and consultancy services....

    , an organization based in Scotland
  • Sydney Adventist College
    Sydney Adventist College
    Sydney Adventist College is an independent, co-educational, Seventh-day Adventist, day school, located in Strathfield, an inner-western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...

    , a Seventh-Day Adventist high school in Sydney, New South Wales
  • Students' Administrative Council, University of Toronto
    Students' Administrative Council, University of Toronto
    The University of Toronto Students' Union , formally known as the Students' Administrative Council of the University of Toronto, Inc., is the main student union of the University of Toronto, representing the university's 44,000 full-time undergraduate students...

    , the largest students' union in Canada
  • St. Andrew's College (Ontario), known as SAC

Government and military

  • Second Artillery Corps
    Second Artillery Corps
    The Second Artillery Corps is the strategic missile forces of the People's Republic of China. The SAC is the component of the People's Liberation Army that controls China's nuclear ballistic and conventional missiles. China's total nuclear arsenal size is estimated to be about 240 nuclear weapons...

    , one of four branches of the Chinese armed forces
  • Shenyang Aircraft Corporation
    Shenyang Aircraft Corporation
    Shenyang Aircraft Corporation is a Chinese civilian and military aircraft manufacturer located in Shenyang. Founded in 1953, it is one of the oldest aircraft manufacturers in the People's Republic of China. Many aircraft manufacturers in China such as Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group or Guizhou...

    , Chinese aircraft manufacturer
  • Southern Air Command of the Indian Air Force
  • Special Area of Conservation
    Special Area of Conservation
    A Special Area of Conservation is defined in the European Union's Habitats Directive , also known as the Directive on the Conservation of Natural Habitats and of Wild Fauna and Flora...

    , an area defined by member states of the European Union as being worthy of conservation
  • Strategic Air Command
    Strategic Air Command
    The Strategic Air Command was both a Major Command of the United States Air Force and a "specified command" of the United States Department of Defense. SAC was the operational establishment in charge of America's land-based strategic bomber aircraft and land-based intercontinental ballistic...

    , an operational establishment of the United States Air Force
  • Standardization Administration of China
    Standardization Administration of China
    The Standardization Administration of China is the Standards organization authorized by the State Council of China to exercise administrative responsibilities by undertaking unified management, supervision and overall coordination of standardization work in China...

  • California State Prison, Sacramento
    California State Prison, Sacramento
    California State Prison, Sacramento 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 Folsom or New Folsom Prison which was its official name prior...


Sports

  • Sooner Athletic Conference
    Sooner Athletic Conference
    The Sooner Athletic Conference is an affiliate of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics . Its 12 member institutions are located in Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas....

  • South Atlantic Conference
    South Atlantic Conference
    The South Atlantic Conference is a college athletic conference which operates in the southeastern United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division II...

  • Swiss Alpine Club
    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 111 sections with 110,000 members...


Other

  • SAC Capital Advisors, a hedge fund managed by Steven A. Cohen
  • Service d'Action Civique
    Service d'Action Civique
    The SAC , officially created in January 1960, was a Gaullist militia founded by Jacques Foccart, Charles de Gaulle's chief adviser for African matters, and Pierre Debizet, a former Resistant and official director of the group...

    , a Gaullist organisation
  • Societas Apostolatus Catholici, a religious congregation within the Roman Catholic Church
  • Songwriters Association of Canada
    Songwriters Association of Canada
    The Songwriters Association of Canada is a Canadian organization dedicated exclusively to Canadian composers, lyricists and songwriters. Their mission is to develop and protect the creative and business environments for songwriters in Canada and around the world.- Proposal to Monetize File Sharing...

    , a Canadian organization dedicated exclusively to Canadian composers, lyricists and songwriters
  • Space Applications Centre
    Space Applications Centre
    The Space Applications Centre is an institution of research in Ahmedabad, India under the aegis of the Indian Space Research Organization...

    , an Indian Space Research Organization Research lab
  • Sveriges Arbetares Centralorganisation, an anarcho-syndicalist trade union federation in Sweden
  • Satélite Argentino Científico, Argentine research satellites of Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales

Government and military

  • Senior Aircraftman
    Senior Aircraftman
    Senior Aircraftman , or Senior Aircraftwoman , is a rank in the Royal Air Force, ranking between Leading Aircraftman and Senior Aircraftman Technician and having a NATO rank code of OR-2. The rank, which is non-supervisory, was introduced on 1 January 1951...

    , a rank in the Royal Air Force
  • Senior Assistant Commissioner
    Senior Assistant Commissioner
    Senior assistant commissioner is a rank used in the Singapore Police Force and in the New South Wales Police Force of Australia.-Australia:The rank of senior assistant commissioner is only used in the New South Wales Police Force, where it is senior to the rank of assistant commissioner and junior...

    , a rank in the Singapore Police Force
  • Special Agent in Charge, an Government agent in authority at the scene of a crime or investigation
  • NATO Strategic Airlift Capability
    NATO Strategic Airlift Capability
    The Strategic Airlift Capability is a consortium of 12 nations, 10 of which are member states of NATO and two of which are Partners For Peace, to pool together resources to purchase and operate Boeing C-17 Globemaster III aircraft for joint strategic airlift purposes.The SAC concept was...

    , multinational transport aircraft initiative
  • Supreme Allied Commander
    Supreme Allied Commander
    Supreme Allied Commander is the title held by the most senior commander within certain multinational military alliances. It originated as a term used by the Western Allies during World War II, and is currently used only within NATO. Dwight Eisenhower served as Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary...


Education

  • Student activity center
    Student activity center
    A student activity center is a type of building found on university campuses. In the United States, such a building is more often called a student union, student commons, or student center...

    , a type of building found on university campuses
  • Student Activity Complex in Laredo, Texas
  • SISD Student Activities Complex
    SISD Student Activities Complex
    The SISD Student Activities Complex, known locally as "The SAC" is a High School football stadium in the far east side of El Paso, Texas.It has a capacity of 11,000. It is owned and operated by the Socorro Independent School District for high school football, soccer, swim meets, and track & field...

     in El Paso, Texas
  • School-assessed coursework, a type of school-based assessment

Science, technology, and medicine

  • Source of activation confusion model
    Source of activation confusion model
    SAC is a computational model of memory encoding and retrieval. It has been developed by Lynne M. Reder at Carnegie Mellon University. It shares many commonalities of with ACT-R.-Structure:...

     in psychology
  • S-Allyl cysteine
    S-Allyl cysteine
    S-Allyl cysteine is an organic compound that is a natural constituent of fresh garlic. It is a derivative of the amino acid cysteine in which an allyl group has been added to the sulfur atom....

    , a chemical constituent of garlic
  • Sac spider
    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, conical anterior spinnerets that touched and were wandering predators...

    , a large catch-all taxon for a large group of disparate collection of spiders
  • Spindle assembly checkpoint, a mechanism of mitosis or meiosis

Computers

  • SAC programming language
    SAC programming language
    SAC is a strict purely functional programming language which design is focused on the needs of numerical applications. Emphasis is laid on efficient support for array processing. Efficiency concerns are essentially twofold...

    , a strict purely functional programming language
  • SA-C programming language, a C family language targeted at programming circuits
  • Strict Avalanche Criterion, a property of boolean functions of relevance in cryptography
  • Special Administration Console, a system console that provides headless server operation
  • Spatial Audio Coding (MPEG Surround
    MPEG Surround
    MPEG Surround , also known as Spatial Audio Coding 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 compatible fashion...

    ), a lossy compression format for surround sound

Transportation

  • Sports Activity Coupe, a BMW class of cars
  • Sacramento Executive Airport
    Sacramento Executive Airport
    Sacramento Executive Airport , also known as simply Executive Airport, is a public airport located three miles south of the central business district of Sacramento, a city in Sacramento County, California, USA...

    's IATA code
  • Sacramento Valley Rail Station's Amtrak station code

Television and film

  • Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
    Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
    is an anime television series produced by Production I.G and based on Masamune Shirow's manga Ghost in the Shell. It was written and directed by Kenji Kamiyama, with original character design by Hajime Shimomura and a soundtrack by Yoko Kanno...

  • Super Adventure Club, a fictional organization in "The Return of Chef", a South Park episode

Food and meals

  • Sač
    SAC
    -People:* Stuart Adam Campbell, a famous gamer who got 30 days playtime within two months of MW2's release in 2009-Computers:* Symposium on Applied Computing, an annual conference sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing...

    , a baking vessel and its dome-shaped cover, used in the Balkans
  • Saj (utensil), sac or saç, a dome-shaped cooking utensil, used in Turkey and the Middle East

Anatomical enclosures

  • Gestational sac
    Gestational sac
    The gestational sac is the only available intrauterine structure that can be used to determine if an intrauterine pregnancy exists, until the embryo is identified....

  • Yolk sac
    Yolk sac
    The yolk sac is a membranous sac attached to an embryo, providing early nourishment in the form of yolk in bony fishes, sharks, reptiles, birds, and primitive mammals...

  • Amniotic sac
    Amniotic sac
    The amniotic sac is the sac in which the fetus develops in amniotes. It is a tough but thin transparent pair of membranes, which hold a developing embryo until shortly before birth. The inner membrane, the amnion, contains the amniotic fluid and the fetus. The outer membrane, the Chorion,...

  • Viscid sac
  • Chorion
    Chorion
    The chorion is one of the membranes that exist during pregnancy between the developing fetus and mother. It is formed by extraembryonic mesoderm and the two layers of trophoblast and surrounds the embryo and other membranes...

  • Vocal sac
    Vocal sac
    The vocal sac is the flexible membrane of skin possessed by most male frogs. The purpose of the vocal sac is usually as an amplification of their mating or advertisement call...

  • Fecal sac
    Fecal sac
    A fecal 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 fecal material from the nest...

  • Gular skin
    Gular skin
    Gular skin , in ornithology, is an area of featherless skin on birds that joins the lower mandible of the beak to the bird's neck....

     or throat sac
  • Ink sac
    Ink sac
    With the exception of nocturnal and very deep water cephalopods, all coeloids which dwell in light conditions have an ink sac, which can be used to expel a cloud of dark ink to confuse predators. This sac is a muscular bag which originated as an extension of the hind gut...

  • Anal glands
    Anal glands
    The anal glands or anal sacs are small glands found near the anus in many mammals, including dogs and cats. They are not found in humans or other primates. They are paired sacs located on either side of the anus between the external and internal sphincter muscles. Sebaceous glands within the...

     or anal sac
  • Lesser sac
    Lesser sac
    The lesser sac, also known as the omental bursa, is the cavity in the abdomen that is formed by the lesser and greater omentum. Usually found in mammals, it is connected with the greater sac via the epiploic foramen...

  • Greater sac
    Greater sac
    In human anatomy, the greater sac, also known as the general cavity or peritoneum of the peritoneal cavity proper, is the cavity in the abdomen that is inside the peritoneum but outside of the lesser sac....

  • Lacrimal sac
    Lacrimal sac
    The lacrimal 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...

    , eye-and-nose-associated structure
  • Vestibular sacs
    Vestibular sacs
    Vestibular sac may refer to either of two sacs in the ear:* Saccule* Utricle...

  • Bursa (anatomy)
    Bursa (anatomy)
    A bursa is a small fluid-filled sac lined by synovial membrane with an inner capillary layer of slimy fluid . It provides a cushion between bones and tendons and/or muscles around a joint. This helps to reduce friction between the bones and allows free movement...

     or Bursa sac
  • Synovial 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 like oil in a car, lubricating the joint and making it...

    , joint component
  • Ovule
    Ovule
    Ovule means "small egg". 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 , and the megaspore-derived female gametophyte in its center...

     or embryo sac
  • Pleural cavity
    Pleural cavity
    In human anatomy, the pleural cavity is the potential space between the two pleura of the lungs. The pleura is a serous membrane which folds back onto itself to form a two-layered, membrane structure. The thin space between the two pleural layers is known as the pleural cavity; it normally...

     or pleural sac
  • Venom sac (structure), in venom-secreting animals
    Venom
    Venom is the general term referring to any variety of toxins used by certain types of animals that inject it into their victims by the means of a bite or a sting...

  • Egg sac, the reproductive structure of spiders
  • Dural sac, a structure of spinal cord

Other uses

  • Sac (people), a North American tribe
  • Fox language
    Fox language
    Fox is an Algonquian language, spoken by around 1000 Fox, Sauk, and Kickapoo in various locations in the Midwestern United States and in northern Mexico...

     or Sac language
  • Sacrifice bunt, used in baseball
  • Special Area of Conservation
    Special Area of Conservation
    A Special Area of Conservation is defined in the European Union's Habitats Directive , also known as the Directive on the Conservation of Natural Habitats and of Wild Fauna and Flora...

    , a protected area in the European Union
  • Staff Association Committee

See also

  • Sac City, Iowa
    Sac City, Iowa
    Sac City is a city in and the county seat of Sac County, Iowa, United States, located in the rolling hills along the valley of the North Raccoon River, in one of America's prime agricultural regions. U.S. Route 20 bisects the city, forming its Main Street, and the city is one of 45 designated Main...

  • Sac County, Iowa
    Sac County, Iowa
    -2010 census:The 2010 census recorded a population of 10,350 in the county, with a population density of . There were 5,429 housing units, of which 4,482 were occupied.-2000 census:...

  • Sac River
    Sac River
    The Sac River is a river in southwest Missouri. It is long, with headwaters in Lawrence and Greene counties; the headwaters join near Greenfield, then flow north through the Ozarks, to the Osage River, ending just above Osceola in Truman Reservoir....

    , a river in southwest Missouri
  • Sacramento, California
    Sacramento, California
    Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the county seat of Sacramento County. It is located at the confluence of the Sacramento River and the American River in the northern portion of California's expansive Central Valley. With a population of 466,488 at the 2010 census,...

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