S3

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S3 may be:

• S3 (Berlin), a line on the Berlin S-Bahn
• S-3 Viking, an airplane
• S3 ICBM, a French nuclear missile now out of commission
• Audi S3
• S3 Films
• A safety phrase, see List of S-phrases
• S3 (military)
• third sacral vertebra in human anatomy, see vertebral column
• Santa Barbara Airlines, IATA airline designator

[edit] Computers

• S3 Graphics, a computer hardware company
• S3 Texture Compression
• Amazon S3, an online data storage service
• S3 programming language, a language used to write the VME operating system and much other system software on the ICL 2900 Series

[edit] Mathematics

• A specific modal logic
• Dihedral group of order 6 (isomorphic to S₃), in group theory, the symmetric group of order 3! = 6
• The 3-dimensional sphere S³.

[edit] Other

• S3 is a fictitious program in the Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty video game.
• "S3: Expedition to the Barrier Peaks", a Dungeons & Dragons adventure module
• Canon PowerShot S3 IS