SSO
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- Statistical Society of Ottawa, the Ottawa Regional Association of the Statistical Society of Canada and the Ottawa Chapter of the American Statistical AssociationAmerican Statistical AssociationThe American Statistical Association , is the main professional US organization for statisticians and related professions. It was founded in Boston, Massachusetts on November 27, 1839, and is the second oldest, continuously operating professional society in the United States...
. - Sanitary sewer overflowSanitary sewer overflowSanitary sewer overflow is a condition whereby untreated sewage is discharged into the environment prior to reaching treatment facilities thereby escaping wastewater treatment. When caused by rainfall it is also known as wet weather overflow. It is primarily meaningful in developed countries,...
- Senior Station OfficerSenior Station OfficerSenior Station Officer is a rank in the New Zealand Fire Service. In career fire stations, an SSO will be the officer in charge of a single watch at a station with multiple appliances...
, a rank in the New Zealand Fire ServiceNew Zealand Fire ServiceThe New Zealand Fire Service is New Zealand's national fire fighting body. While its founding legislation, the Fire Service Act 1975, only provides for this role, the organisation has assumed responsibility for several other areas.-Strategic Direction:The New Zealand Fire Service has defined for... - Special Security OfficeSpecial Security OfficeThe Special Security Office is a function within multiple arms of the United States federal government and armed forces with the mission to provide a reliable and secure means to receive and disseminate Sensitive Compartmented Information and Special Access Programs to authorized recipients in...
, is a function of the US federal government and armed forces- Special Security Officers, a group of people with law Enforcement
- Single sign-onSingle sign-onSingle sign-on is a property of access control of multiple related, but independent software systems. With this property a user logs in once and gains access to all systems without being prompted to log in again at each of them...
, a system designed to minimize the number of times that a user must log into multiple applications - Special Security Organization (Iraqi)
- Sso (rite)Sso (rite)The Sso was an initiation rite practiced by the Beti of Cameroon in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The participants were young men between 15 and 25 years of age who, by completing the rite, became adults and enjoyed added privileges, such as passage into the land of the ancestors at death....
, an initiation rite once practised by the Beti of CameroonCameroonCameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon , is a country in west Central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west; Chad to the northeast; the Central African Republic to the east; and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo to the south. Cameroon's coastline lies on the... - Standards Setting Organization, an organization promulgating or maintaining standards
- Sydney Star ObserverSydney Star ObserverThe Sydney Star Observer is a free weekly tabloid and online newspaper that caters to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The paper is owned and published by Gay & Lesbian Community Publishing Limited, a community-owned and oriented business...
, a newspaper in Sydney, Australia - Super Surgical Operation
- Swiss Space OfficeSwiss Space OfficeSwiss Space Office is the national space program of the Switzerland. It was roughly the 16th highest funded public space agency with a budget of about 110 million USD in the early 2000s. According to Jane's, the SSO is "the administrative unit charged with planning and implementing Swiss space...
, space agency of Switzerland - Siding Spring ObservatorySiding Spring ObservatorySiding Spring Observatory near Coonabarabran, New South Wales, Australia, part of the Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics at the Australian National University , incorporates the Anglo-Australian Telescope along with a collection of other telescopes owned by the Australian National...
- Student Switch OffStudent Switch OffThe 'Student Switch Off is a campaign that aims to encourage students to save energy when living in UK University halls of residence. It is run through a not-for-profit Community Interest Company.The campaign currently runs at 43 universities across the UK...
, a UK-based energy saving campaign
In fiction:
- Starship OperatorsStarship Operatorsis an anime series based upon science fiction novels written by Ryo Mizuno. The series, animated by J.C.Staff, was aired on TV Tokyo in Japan. Starship Operators is licensed in English in the United States by Geneon....
, a TV sci-fi anime series - UMF/SSO-3 ASH, a battlesuit in the anime Gundam
In music:
- Salford Symphony OrchestraSalford Symphony OrchestraThe Salford Symphony Orchestra is one of the major amateur orchestras in North West England. It is also one of the oldest, celebrating its 60th year in 2007. It is based at Salford, in Greater Manchester, England....
- Saskatoon Symphony OrchestraSaskatoon Symphony OrchestraThe Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra is a professional orchestra based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan administered by the non-profit Saskatoon Symphony Society. The orchestra was founded in 1927 as an amateur orchestra, but today has 10 core members and up to 50 sessional musicians...
- Scottish Symphony Orchestra
- Seattle Symphony Orchestra
- Shreveport Symphony OrchestraShreveport Symphony OrchestraShreveport Symphony Orchestra ' is based in Shreveport, the seat of Caddo Parish and the largest city in north Louisiana. Founded in 1948, the symphony remains the longest continually performing professional orchestra in Louisiana, despite a musicians' strike in October, 2008, which nearly...
- Singapore Symphony OrchestraSingapore Symphony OrchestraThe Singapore Symphony Orchestra is a 96 members professional symphony orchestra. Its main performing venue is the Esplanade Concert Hall in Singapore although it has also toured widely in Asia, Europe and the United States...
- Springfield Symphony OrchestraSpringfield Symphony OrchestraThe Springfield Symphony Orchestra is an orchestra based in Springfield, Massachusetts. It performs at Symphony Hall, a part of the Springfield Municipal Group....
- Sudbury Symphony OrchestraSudbury Symphony OrchestraThe Sudbury Symphony Orchestra is a symphony orchestra which makes its home in the Canadian city of Sudbury, Ontario.Incorporated in 1975, the orchestra is a not-for-profit registered charity which performs an annual six-concert series at Laurentian University's Fraser Auditorium.-History:The...
- Sun Symphony Orchestra
- Sydney Symphony OrchestraSydney Symphony OrchestraThe Sydney Symphony Orchestra , commonly known as the Sydney Symphony, is an Australian symphony orchestra based in Sydney...
- Syracuse Symphony OrchestraSyracuse Symphony OrchestraThe Syracuse Symphony Orchestra was a 79 member orchestra located in Syracuse, NY. In its time it was the 43rd largest orchestra in the United States and performed a variety of programs including the Post-Standard Classics Series and M&T Bank Pops Series....
In spaceflight:
- Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne, the vehicle used in the first ever privately funded human spaceflight
- Semi-synchronous orbitSemi-synchronous OrbitSemi-Synchronous Orbit: An orbit with approximately a 12-hour period. A circular Semi-Synchronous Orbit is at an altitude of approximately 20,200 km....
, a type of Earth orbit - single-stage-to-orbitSingle-stage-to-orbitA single-stage-to-orbit vehicle reaches orbit from the surface of a body without jettisoning hardware, expending only propellants and fluids. The term usually, but not exclusively, refers to reusable vehicles....
, a vehicle that reaches orbit without jettisoning hardware - Space Shuttle OrbiterSpace Shuttle OrbiterThe Space Shuttle orbiter was the orbital spacecraft of the Space Shuttle program operated by NASA, the space agency of the United States. The orbiter was a reusable winged "space-plane", a mixture of rockets, spacecraft, and aircraft...
, an orbital spaceplane operated by NASA - Sun-synchronous orbitSun-synchronous orbitA Sun-synchronous orbit is a geocentric orbit which combines altitude and inclination in such a way that an object on that orbit ascends or descends over any given point of the Earth's surface at the same local mean solar time. The surface illumination angle will be nearly the same every time...
, a type of Earth orbit