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Abbreviations & Acronyms

Abbreviation:

An abbreviation is a shortened form of a word or a phrase (group of words).

The result of abbreviation is a reduced form or abridgement of writing. They are commonly used because they save time and space.

As said by John Horne Tooke, “Abbreviations are the wheels of language, the wings of Mercury.

Examples:

ATM = Automated Teller Machine

BBC =   British Broadcasting Corporation

Acronym:

It is a word formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced as one word.

Examples:

NASA = National Aeronautics and Space Administration (USA)

AIDS = Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.

Most Common Abbreviations & Acronyms with the letter ‘S’

S

S / S.	Saint / Sabbath / Society / South / Southern / Schilling or Solidus / Special / Square / Stokes / Sun / Soprano (music) / Spades (cards) / Strangeness (Physics) / Sulphur (Chemistry) / Siemens (SI unit) / Siemens or small (Electricity) / smooth (Bacteriology) / Spain (IVR = International Vehicle Registration) / Strain (Virus, etc.) Sacral (in Vertebral formulae) (Anatomy & Zoology) / Second(s) / S level = a Certificate of Education examination / Senate (Canadian)/ Svedberg unit (Biochemistry) / harp (Physics & Chemistry) / Singular / Son / Strange quark (Physics) / Succeeded / 7 or 70 (as medieval Roman numeral)
s / s.	Second(s) / Section / Shilling / Singular / Son(s) / Succeeded
S–	70000 (medieval Roman numeral)
$	Dollar
S4C	Sianel Pedwar Cymru (the Welsh language television channel)
SA	Salvation Army / Sex appeal / South Australia / South Australian / South America / South Africa / Society of Arts/ Small arms (military)/ Societe anonyme (French) = Limited Liability Comapany / Society of Antiquaries (SAL of London or SAS of Scotland) / Sturmabteilung (German) = Storm Section (a Nazi terrorist militia) / Sino-auricular or sino-atrial (Medicine)
sa	Secundum artem (Latin) = according to art / Sine anno (Latin) = without date / without year
SAA	Small arm(s) ammunition
SAARC	(acronym) — South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation
SABC	South African Broadcasting Corporation
SAC	Scottish Arts Council / Special Area of Conservation / Strategic Air Command (US) / Senior Aircraftman (UK)
SACN	Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition
SACW	Senior Aircraftwoman
SAD	Seasonal affective disorder (Medicine)
SAE	Society of Automotive Engineers (US)

sae / s.a.e.	Stampede addressed envelope / Self-addressed envelope
SAEF	(abbreviation & acronym) Stock Automatic Execution Facility (see also SEAQ)
SAIL	(acronym) Steel Authority of India Limited
Sb	Stibium (Latin) = Antimony
Sb.	Substantive
SBA	Small Business Administration
S-Bahn	(Stadt) Schnellbahn (urban) (German) = fast railway (fast urban railway system in Germany)
SBF	Single black female (used in personal advertisements)
SBM	Single black male (personal advertisements) / Single buoy mooring
SBN	Standard book number (now ISBN = International Standard Book Number)
SBR	Styrene-butadiene rubber
SBI	State Bank of India
SBS	Sick building syndrome (also TBS = Tight building syndrome) / Special Boat Service
SC	Supreme Court / Scheduled Caste
SD	Standard Deviation (statistics) / South Dakota (in official postal use) / Sequence Data
SDF	Social Democratic Federation
SDI	Strategic Defense Initiative
SDLP	Social Democratic and Labour Party (UK)
SDO	Sub-divisional Officer (military)
SDP	Social Democratic Party (UK – history)
SDR	Special Drawing Right (from IMF – the International Monetary Fund)
SE	south-east / south-eastern; chemical symbol for Selenium
SEA	(both abbreviation & acronym) – Single European Act
SEAL	Sea Air Land (team) (an elite force in the US Navy)
SEATO	(acronym) South East Asia Treaty Organization (now defunct)
SEC	Securities and Exchange Commission
Sec.	Secretary
SECAM	(acronym) Sequentiel couleru a memoire (French) = a broadcasting system for colour television

SF	Science Fiction / Signal frequency / Sinn Fein / San Francisco / Swedish Finland (from Finnish Suomi) = Finland (IVR)
sf	Sforzando (music)
SFA	Scottish Football Association / Sweet Fanny Adams (slang) = nothing at all / Securities and Futures Authority (UK) (now replaced by FSA = Financial Services Authority)
SFAS	Statement of Financial Accounting Standards
SFO	Serious Fraud Office (UK)
SFX	Special Effects
sfx	Suffix
sfz	Sforzando (music)
SG	Senior grade (US) / Solicitor General (Law) / Specific gravity
Sg	Seaborgium (Chemistry)
sgd	Signed
SGHWR	Steam-generating heavy water reactor
SGML	Standard Generalized Mark-up Language (coding for printed applications)
SGP	Singapore (IVR = International Vehicle Registration)
Sgt	Sergeant
s/h	Shorthand
sh.	Shilling(s)

SHA	(abbreviation & acronym) Strategic Health Authority
SHAEF	Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force
SI	Systeme International (French) the international system of units of measurement / Statutory instrument (Law) / South Island (of NZ) / (Order of) the Star of India
Si	Silicon (chemical element)
SIB	Special Investigations Branch / Securities and Investments Board (now known as FSA = Financial Services Authority)
sib	Sibilant
SIDS/Sids	Sudden infant death syndrome = cot death
SIFI	(acronym) Systematically Important Financial Institution (US)
SIG	Special interest group (computing) (a type of news group)
sig / Sign.	Signature
Sig.	Signor
SIGINT/Sigint.	Signal intelligence
SIM	(acronym) — Subscriber Identification Module (Card)
SJ	Society of Jesus (Jesuit)
SJAA	St John Ambulance Association
SJAB	St John Ambulance Brigade

SJC	Supreme Judicial Court
SK	Saskatchewan (in official postal use) (Canadian province) / Senior kindergarten / Slovakia (IVR)
Sk	Slovak koruna
SKU	Stock Keeping Unit
SL	Serjeant-at-Law (formerly, a barrister of highest rank) / Solicitor at Law / Savings & loan (association) (also S & L) (US)
S & L	Savings & loan (association) (US)
SLA	Service level agreement (Computing)
SLBM	Submarine-launched ballistic missile
SLCM	Submarine-launched cruise missile
SLD	Social and Liberal Democrats (now called Liberal Democrats)
sld	Sailed
SLE	Systemic lupus erythematosus (Medicine)
SLO	Slovenia (IVR = International Vehicle Registration)
SLP	Scottish Labour Party
SLR	Single-lens reflex
SLT	Speech and Language Therapist
SLV	Satellite Launch Vehicle
SM	Sergeant Major / Short metre / Stage manager (theatrical) / Sadomasochism (also s-m or s/m)
Sm	Samarium (chemical element)
SMD	Surface-mounted device
SME	Small and medium (sized) enterprise (also MSME = Micro, small and medium enterprise)
SMM	Sancta Mater Maria (Latin) = Holy Mother Mary
SMMT	Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders

SMO	Senior Medical Officer
SMP	Statutory maternity pay
SMPTE	Society of Television and Motion Picture Engineers (time coding system to synchronize video and audio tapes)
SMR	Standardized mortality rate
SMS	Short message-service (text message service)
SMSgt	Senior Master Sergeant
SMTP	Single Mail Transfer (or Transport) Protocol (protocol to transfer emails between servers)
SN	Senegal (IVR = International Vehicle Registration)
Sn	Stannum (Latin) = Tin
sn	Secundum naturam (Latin) = according to nature
SNCF	Societe Nationale des Chemins de fer Francais (French) = French National Railways
SNG	Simulated (substitute) natural gas
SNO	Senior Nursing Officer
SNOBOL	(acronym) String Oriented Symbolic Language (a high-level computer language for handling strings of symbols)
SNP	Scottish National Party
Snr / snr	Senior
SNU	Solar neutrino unit
SO	Signal Officer / Special order / Staff Officer / Standing Order / Somalia (IVR= International Vehicle Registration)

s.o.	Seller’s opinion / Shipping order
So.	South
SOB/S.O.B./s.o.b.	Son of a bitch
Soc.	Socialist / society
soc	Sociology (US) (informal)
SOCA	(acronym) Serious and Organized Crime Agency
SOCAN	Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada
SOE	Special Operations Executive
SOGAT	Society of Graphical and Allied Trades
SOHO	(abbreviation & acronym) Small Office Home Office (a large market for computer hardware and software)
Sol. / Solr	Solicitor
sol.	Solution
SOLAS	(acronym) Safety of life at seas

S. of S.	Song of Songs or Song of Solomon (Bible)
SOS	Save Our Souls (an appeal for help or rescue esp. at sea by Morse code)
SOT	Stay-on tab
SP	Starting price
sp	Sine prole (Latin) = without issue
sp.	Special / Spelling / Species (spp. – plural) (Biology)
SPA	Special Protection Area
SPAB	(abbreviation & acronym) Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings
SPAD	(acronym) Signal passed at danger (a signal ordering train to stop)
SPCK	Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
SPD	Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (German) = The German Social Democratic Party
SQ	Stereophonic-quadraphonic (audio recording and reproduction system (US)
sq. / (Sq.)	Sequens (Latin) = following (sqq. (plural) = sequentes or sequentia / (also Sq. – square or Square (in addresses)
SQA	Scottish Qualifications Authority
SQC	Scottish Qualifications Service
SQL	Standard (or structured) query language (programming language)
sqn	Squadron
Sqn. Ldr.	Squadron leader
SQUID	(acronym) Superconducting quantum interference device (device used to measure extremely small currents, voltages, and magnetic fields)
SR	Southern Railway

Sr	Senior / Senor / Signor / Sister (Ecclesiastical) / Strontium (chemical element)
sr	Steradian(s)
S-R	Stimulus-response (Psychology)
SRA	Strategic Rail Authority (UK)
Sra.	Senora
SRAM	Static random access memory
SRC	Student Representative Council / Science Research Council
SRch	State Registered Chiropodist
SRMN	State Registered Mental Nurse
SRN	State Registered Nurse
SRO	Self-regulatory organization / Standing room only
SRP	Suggested retail price
SRS	Supplemental restraint system / Steradian(s)
SRU	Scottish Rugby Union
SS	Saints / Steamship / Shortstop (Baseball) / Social security/  Schutzstaffel (Germany) = protection department (an elite Nazi corps)

ss	Screw steamer / Steamship
SSA	Standard spending assessment
SSAFA	Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association (now known as SSAFA Forces Help)
SSAP	Statement of Standard Accounting Practice
SSAS	Small self-administered (pension) scheme
SSB	Single sideband transmission
SSC	Societas Sanctae Crucis (Latin) = Society of the Holy Cross / Solicitor before the Supreme Courts (of Scotland)
SSD	Solid state drive (or disk) / Social Services Department / Sanctissimus Dominus (Latin) = Most Holy Lord (the Pope)
SSE	South-south-east
S/Sgt.	Staff Sergeant
SSHRC	(abbreviation & acronym) Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (of Canada)
SSL	Secure Sockets Layer (secure communication between computers in a network on the internet)
SSM	Surface to surface missile
SSN	Standard Serial Number / Severely subnormal / Social Security Number (US)
SSP	Scottish Socialist Party / Statutory sick pay
ssp.	Subspecies (sspp. – plural) (Biology)
SSR	Soviet Socialist Republic

SSRI	Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (drug used in treating depression) (Medicine)
SSSI	Site of Special Scientific Interest (UK)
SST	Supersonic transport
SSVC	Services Sound and Vision Corporation
SSW	South-south-west
ST	Sao Tome and Principe (IVR = International Vehicle Registration)
st	Stone (the weight) / Stumped (cricket)
St / St.	Saint / Strait / Street
Sta / Sta.	(Railway) Station
STD	Subscriber Trunk Dialing
SU	Strontium unit / Special unitary (Physics)
Sub-Lt.	Sub Lieutenant
SV	Sancta Virgo (Latin) = Holy Virgin / Simian virus / Sanctitas Vestra (Latin) = Your Holiness
sv / s.v.	Sub verbo (Latin) = under the word given / side valve / Sub voce (Latin) = under that heading given
Sv	Sievert (SI unit)
SVD	Swine vesicular disease
SVGA	Super video graphics array (computing) (a high-resolution standard for monitors and screens)
S-VHS	Super video home system (improved version of VHS)

SVQ	Scottish Vocational Qualification
SW	Short wave / South-west / South-western / Small women or women’s (clothing size)
SWA	South-West Africa (Namibia)
SWAK	(abbreviation & acronym) sealed with a kiss
SWALK	(abbreviation & acronym) sealed with a loving kiss
SWANU	(abbreviation & acronym) South West African National Union
SWAPO	(abbreviation & acronym) South-West Africa People’s Organization
SWAT	(acronym) Special Weapons and Tactics
SWF	Single white female
SWG / swg	Standard wire gauge (UK) (measuring standard wire thicknesses)
SWM	Single white male (used in personal advertisements)
SWOT	(acronym) Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats (considered in the analysis of a product)
SWOT analysis	(acronym) Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats (study of internal strengths and weaknesses as well as external opportunities and threats)
SWP	Socialist Workers’ Party
SWR	Standing wave ratio

SY	Seychelles (IVR = International Vehicle Registration) / Steam yacht / School year
SYHA	Scottish Youth Hostels Association
syn.	Synonymous (with)
sync/synch	Synchronization
syph	Syphilis (informal)

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