SOA
See also: Appendix:Variations of "soa"
English
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- (US) Initialism of Sarbanes-Oxley Act, officially titled the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002.
- (US) Initialism of School of the Americas, a US Army training facility subsequently officially known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation.
- (US) Initialism of Society of Actuaries, one of the two main professional societies of actuaries in the United States.
- (UK) Initialism of Society of Ancients, an international society based in the UK.
Noun
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- Initialism of state of the art.
- (electronics) Initialism of semiconductor optical amplifier, a device that amplifies an optical signal directly.
- (electronics) Initialism of safe operating area, the current conditions over which a device can be expected to operate without self-damage.
- (psychology) Initialism of stimulus onset asynchrony, the time interval between the onset of a first stimulus and the onset of a second stimulus.
- (computing, architecture) Initialism of search-oriented architecture.
- (computing, architecture) Initialism of service-oriented architecture.
- (computing, networks) Initialism of start of authority, a record that identifies the authoritative name server for a specific DNS database segment.
- (business, accounting, banking) Initialism of statement of account.
- (UK, census) Initialism of super output area.