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3-letter words containing s

  • s/l — Squadron Leader
  • s/m — (sexual) sadism and masochism; sadomasochism
  • s/n — signal-to-noise ratio: the difference, in decibels, between the level of a specific signal and that of unwanted noise
  • s/o — standing order
  • saa — Systems Application Architecture
  • sab — a person engaged in direct action to prevent a targeted activity, esp fox hunting, taking place
  • sac — Strategic Air Command.
  • sad — Systems Analysis Definition
  • sag — to sink or bend downward by weight or pressure, especially in the middle: The roof sags.
  • sai — a South American monkey
  • sal — a male given name, form of Salvatore.
  • sam — System Account Manager
  • san — Storage Area Network
  • sap — Fortification. a deep, narrow trench constructed so as to form an approach to a besieged place or an enemy's position.
  • sar — Special Administrative Region (of China)
  • sas — 1.   (language)   Statistical Analysis System. 2.   (tool)   SAS System.
  • sat — (in prescriptions) may it be.
  • sau — German name of Sava.
  • saw — a sententious saying; maxim; proverb: He could muster an old saw for every occasion.
  • sax — a short, single-edged sword of ancient Scandinavia.
  • say — assay.
  • saz — any of a group of Middle Eastern plucked string instruments resembling the lute
  • sba — standard beam approach: a radar navigation system that gives lateral guidance to aircraft when landing
  • sbd — Smart Battery Data
  • sbe — Microsoft Office Small Business Edition
  • sbm — Solution Based Modelling
  • sbr — Spectral Band Replication
  • sbs — Special Boat Service
  • sbu — strategic business unit: a division within an organization responsible for marketing its own range of products
  • sbw — south by west
  • sca — Single Connection Attach
  • scb — Bachelor of Science
  • scc — strongly connected component
  • scd — Doctor of Science
  • sce — Scottish Certificate of Education: either of two public examinations in specific subjects taken as school-leaving qualifications or as qualifying examinations for entry into a university, college, etc
  • scf — Save the Children Fund
  • scg — Sydney Cricket Ground
  • sci — (hardware)   1. Scalable Coherent Interface. 2. UART.
  • scl — (language)   1. System Control Language. 2. Symbolic Communication Language. Designed primarily for the manipulation of symbolic formulas. Featured pattern matching (which was partly the inspiration for SNOBOL), string operations in buffers, and automatic storage management. "A Language for Symbolic Communication", C.Y. Lee et al, Tech Mem 62-3344-4, Bell Labs, Sept 1962.
  • scm — 1.   (business)   Supply Chain Management. 2.   (language)   A Scheme interpreter in C by Aubrey Jaffer and others. SCM conforms to R4RS and IEEE P1178 and includes a conformance test. It is distributed under GPL. Version 5d0 runs under Amiga, Atari-ST, MacOS, MS-DOS, OS/2, NOS/VE, Unicos, VMS, Unix, and similar systems.
  • sco — Santa Cruz Operation
  • scp — single-cell protein
  • scr — (in British universities) senior common room
  • sda — SDA is a process for extracting asphaltenes (= molecular substances in crude oil) and resins.
  • sde — Software Development Environment: equivalent to SEE.
  • sdf — Syntax Definition Formalism. A language for lexical and syntactic specification.
  • sdh — Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
  • sdi — 1.   (library)   Selective Dissemination of Information. 2.   (programming)   Single Document Interface.
  • sdk — Software Developers Kit (or "Software Development Kit").
  • sdl — Specification and Design Language. Defined by the ITU-T (recommendation Z100) to provide a tool for unambiguous specification and description of the behaviour of telecommunications systems. The area of application also includes process control and real-time applications. SDL provides a Graphic Representation (SDL/GR) and a textual Phrase Representation (SDL/PR), which are equivalent representations of the same semantics. A system is specified as a set of interconnected abstract machines which are extensions of the Finite State Machine (FSM). 1. System Software Development Language. System software for the B1700. "System Software Development Language Reference Manual", 1081346, Burroughs Corp (Dec 1974). 2. Specification and Description Language. ITU-T. Specification language with both graphical and character-based syntaxes for defining interacting extended finite state machines. Used to specify discrete interactive systems such as industrial process control, traffic control, and telecommunication systems. Proc Plenary Assembly, Melbourne 14-1988-11-25, Fasc X.1, CCITT. "Telecommunications Systems Engineering Using SDL", R. Saracco et al, N-H 1989. Available from Verilog, MD. (See XDL). 3. Shared Dataspace Language. "A Shared Dataspace Language Supporting Large-Scale Concurrency", G. Roman et al, Proc 8th Intl Conf Distrib Comp Sys, IEEE 1988, pp.265-272. 4. Structure Definition Language. Used internally by DEC to define and generate the symbols used for VAX/VMS internal data structures in various languages. 5. System Description Language. language used by the Eiffel/S implementation of Eiffel to assemble clusters into a system. (see Lace).
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