SAS

See also: Appendix:Variations of "sas"

English

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Proper noun

SAS

(Britain, Australia, New Zealand, military) Initialism of Special Air Service; an elite unit of the British army. Similar units operate in the Australian and New Zealand armies.
(Scandinavia) Initialism of Scandinavian Airlines System; a joint Swedish, Norwegian and Danish airline company.
(computing) Initialism of Serial Attached SCSI, a computer bus standard for mainly connecting hard drives, but also used for other devices, derived from the SCSI and SATA standards.
(sports) Initialism of San Antonio Spurs, American basketball club.

Related terms

(military): SBS
(computing): SCSI, iSCSI, SATA

Translations

military

Russian: Особая воздушная слу́жба (Osobaja vozdušnaja slúžba), спецна́з (ru) (specnáz)

Noun

SAS

(aviation) Initialism of stability augmentation system.
(Australia, education) Initialism of special assistance school.
(computing) Initialism of secure attention sequence.

Anagrams

-ass, ASS, SSA, ass

French

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Noun

SAS f (plural SASs)

(law enforcement) Abbreviation of section des agressions sexuelles. (sexual assault squad)

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