Sofa
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Sofa may refer to:
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In music:
As an abbreviation SOFA:
In general:
- A piece of furniture also called a couchCouchA couch, also called a sofa, is an item of furniture designed to seat more than one person, and providing support for the back and arms. Typically, it will have an armrest on either side. In homes couches are normally found in the family room, living room, den or the lounge...
- SofaSofa (warrior)Sofa is a Mandinka term for slave soldiers who served in the army of the Mali Empire. Sofas would also fight, in varying capacities, in the armies of later Mandé states such as the Bamana and Wassoulou empires.-Etymology:...
slave-soldiers in the Mali EmpireMali EmpireThe Mali Empire or Mandingo Empire or Manden Kurufa was a West African empire of the Mandinka from c. 1230 to c. 1600. The empire was founded by Sundiata Keita and became renowned for the wealth of its rulers, especially Mansa Musa I...
and its successor states. - RussianRussian languageRussian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
Hypocoristic for the name SofiyaSophia (name)Sophia is a female name derived from σοφία, the Greek word for "Wisdom." Sophie is from the French form. Sophia has been a popular name throughout the western world...
In music:
- Any of four bands of overlapping eras:
- Sofa (Dutch band), a post-indie band active since the late 1990s
- Sofa (American band), a post-grunge funk band active through the 1990s
- Sofa (Canadian band)Sofa (Canadian band)Sofa was a Montreal-based band that was active from 1993 to 1997. The group is best remembered for being the first group to release material on post-rock record label Constellation Records; bandmember Ian Ilavsky Sofa was a Montreal-based band that was active from 1993 to 1997. The group is best...
, a Montreal-based band that was active from 1993 to 1997 - Sofa (Thai band), a Thai band active from 2001
- Not to be confused with the band CouchCouch (band)Couch is an instrumental Post-rock band based in Munich, Germany. The band is:* Jürgen Söder * Thomas Geltinger * Michael Heilrath * Stefanie Böhm ; also plays in Ms...
- Not to be confused with the band Couch
- "Sofa #1" and "Sofa #2" are tracks on the 1975 album One Size Fits AllOne Size Fits AllOne Size Fits All is a 1975 rock album by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention. It is the last Zappa album to be released with the subheading of "Mothers of Invention". A special four-channel Quadraphonic version of the album was prepared and advertised, but not released...
album by Frank ZappaFrank ZappaFrank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, singer-songwriter, electric guitarist, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, orchestral and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed...
As an abbreviation SOFA:
- SOFA, which stands for Status of Forces AgreementStatus of Forces AgreementA status of forces agreement is an agreement between a host country and a foreign nation stationing forces in that country. SOFAs are often included, along with other types of military agreements, as part of a comprehensive security arrangement...
, an agreement between a country and a foreign nation stationing military forces in that country. - SOFA, an abbreviation for the international expositions of Sculpture Objects & Functional Art (SOFA NEW YORK & SOFA CHICAGO)
- SOFA, an abbreviation for Soft Out of Focus Area, and alternative to the term BokehBokehIn photography, bokeh is the blur, or the aesthetic quality of the blur, in out-of-focus areas of an image, or "the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light."...
- SOFA scoreSOFA ScoreThe Sequential Organ Failure Assessment score, or just SOFA score, is used to track a patient's status during the stay in an intensive care unit . It is one of several ICU scoring systems....
, an acronym for Sequential Organ Failure Assessment score - SOFA district, a neighbourhood in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
- SOFA (Simulation Open Framework Architecture)SOFA (Simulation Open Framework Architecture)SOFA is an Open Source framework primarily targeted at real-time physical simulation, with an emphasis on medical simulation. It is mostly intended for the research community to help develop newer algorithms, but can also be used as an efficient prototyping tool or as a physics engine...
, an Open Source framework primarily targeted at real-time physical simulation - SOFA component systemSOFA component systemSOFA 2 is a component system developed by at Charles University in Prague. It provides many advanced features: ADL-based design, behavior specification and verification based on behavior protocols, software connectors supporting different communication styles and providing transparent distribution...
, an Open Source framework for designing and implementing component-based applications - SOFA (Astronomy)SOFA (Astronomy)The SOFA software libraries are a collection of subroutines that implement official IAU algorithms for astronomical computations.As of February 2009 they are available in both Fortran and C source code format....
, Standards of Fundamental Astronomy software libraries