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SAS en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of stability augmentation system.
  2. (Australia, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of special assistance school.
  3. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of secure attention sequence.
  4. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of space adaptation syndrome.
Source: en.wiktionary, “SAS” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

SAS en · PROPN

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (Australia, New-Zealand, UK, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of Special Air Service.
    • The SAS are absolutely charming. Ruthless trained killers are just a phone call away. 2003, Richard Curtis, Love Actually, spoken by Prime Minister (Hugh Grant):
    • He was the last original member of the SAS, whose exploits were dramatised in the BBC series SAS: Rogue Heroes (2022), based on the 2016 book of the same name by Ben Macintyre. 2024 January 14, Michael Smith, “Mike Sadler obituary”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of Scandinavian Airlines System; a joint Swedish, Norwegian and Danish airline company.
  3. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) 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.
  4. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of San Antonio Spurs, American basketball club.

Relateds

SCSI · iSCSI · SATA · SBS

Translations (2)

ru спецна́з (military) · ru Особая воздушная слу́жба (military)