SAC

SAC or Sac may refer to:

Organizations

Computers

• Selected Areas in Cryptography, an annual cryptography conference series
• Superior Art Creations, an underground group of computer art scene enthusiasts
• Symposium on Applied Computing, an annual conference sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing

Education

• San Antonio College, a College of the Alamo Community Colleges in San Antonio, Texas
• Scottish Agricultural College, an organization based in Scotland
• St. Andrew's College (Ontario), known as SAC
• Students' Administrative Council, University of Toronto, the largest students' union in Canada
• Sydney Adventist College, a Seventh-Day Adventist high school in Sydney, New South Wales

Government and military

• California State Prison, Sacramento
• Second Artillery Corps, one of four branches of the Chinese armed forces
• Senior Aircraftman, a Royal Air Force rank held by junior airman
• Shenyang Aircraft Corporation, Chinese aircraft manufacturer
• Singapore Accountancy Commission
• Special Area of Conservation, an area defined by member states of the European Union as being worthy of conservation
• Standardization Administration of China
• Strategic Air Command, a former operational establishment of the United States Air Force
• Southern Air Command of the Indian Air Force

Sports

• Sooner Athletic Conference
• South Atlantic Conference
• Swiss Alpine Club

Other

• Society for Analytical Chemistry
• SAC Capital Advisors, a hedge fund managed by Steven A. Cohen
• Satélite Argentino Científico, Argentine research satellites of Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales
• Seoul Arts Center, an art and culture complex in South Korea
• Service d'Action Civique, a Gaullist organisation
• Societas Apostolatus Catholici, a religious congregation within the Roman Catholic Church, also known as the Pallotines
• Songwriters Association of Canada, a Canadian organization dedicated exclusively to Canadian composers, lyricists and songwriters
• Space Applications Centre, an Indian Space Research Organization Research lab
• Sveriges Arbetares Centralorganisation, a syndicalist trade union federation in Sweden
• The Society of Arts and Crafts of Boston, an American craft organisation founded in 1897

Government and military

• NATO Strategic Airlift Capability, multinational transport aircraft initiative
• Senate Appropriations Committee, committee within the United States senate with jurisdiction over discretionary spending legislation
• Senior Aircraftman, a rank in the Royal Air Force
• Senior Assistant Commissioner, a rank in the Singapore Police Force and Royal Malaysia Police
• Special Agent in Charge, a government agent in authority at the scene of a crime or investigation
• Supreme Allied Commander

Education

• SISD Student Activities Complex in El Paso, Texas
• School-assessed coursework, a type of school-based assessment
• Student activity center, a type of building found on university campuses
• Student Activity Complex in Laredo, Texas

Science, technology, and medicine

• S-Allyl cysteine, a chemical constituent of garlic
• Sac spider, a large catch-all taxon for a large group of disparate collection of spiders
• adenyl cyclase sAC, soluble adenyl cyclase
• Source of activation confusion model in psychology
• Spindle assembly checkpoint, a mechanism of mitosis or meiosis
• SnAgCu, Tin-silver-copper, a lead-free alloy commonly used in solder
• Supplemental access control, a protocol used to transmit data contained in a passport equipped with RFID chip

Computers

• SA-C programming language, a C family language targeted at programming circuits
• SAC programming language, a strict purely functional programming language
• Spatial Audio Coding (MPEG Surround), a lossy compression format for surround sound
• Special Administration Console, a system console that provides headless server operation
• Strict Avalanche Criterion, a property of boolean functions of relevance in cryptography

Transportation

• Sacramento Executive Airport's IATA code
• Sacramento Valley Rail Station's Amtrak station code
• Sports Activity Coupe, a BMW class of cars

Television and film

• Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

Food and meals

• Sač, a metal baking vessel and its dome-shaped cover, used in the Balkans and the Middle East

Anatomical enclosures

• Amniotic sac
• Anal glands or anal sac
• Bursa (anatomy) or Bursa sac
• Chorion
• Dural sac, a structure of spinal cord
• Egg sac, the reproductive structure of spiders
• Fecal sac
• Gestational sac
• Greater sac
• Gular skin or throat sac
• Ink sac
• Lacrimal sac, eye-and-nose-associated structure
• Lesser sac
• Ovule or embryo sac
• Pleural cavity or pleural sac
• Synovial sac, joint component
• Venom sac, in venom-secreting animals
• Vestibular sacs (disambiguation), various meanings
• Viscid sac
• Vocal sac
• Yolk sac

Other uses

• Fox language or Sac language
• Sac (people), a North American tribe
• Sacrifice bunt, used in baseball
• Slow Air Chamber of a Native American flute
• Special Area of Conservation, a protected area in the European Union
• Staff Association Committee
• Subscriber acquisition cost
• Sacrifice (chess)
• Surface Air Consumption, scuba diving metric indicating the volume of gas consumed per minute at the surface

See also

• Sack (disambiguation)
• Sac City, Iowa
• Sac County, Iowa
• Sac River, a river in southwest Missouri
• Sacramento, California