Sig (disambiguation)

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Sig or SIG may refer to:

• Science Initiative Group, an international team of scientists dedicated to fostering science in developing countries
• Sig, a city in the north west of Algeria
• Significant figures or sig figs or sig digs, an expression of measurement error or precision
• Sig (Jak and Daxter), a character from the Jak and Daxter video game series
• SIG Manufacturing, a company that makes model airplanes and related items
• SIG plc, an insulation company
• Sig (rune), an Armanen rune, corresponding to Sol (goddess)/Sigel
• SIGARMS, an Swiss firearms company and offshoot of Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft
• SIG firearms (eg the SIG 510) are products of the Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft and SIGARMS companies
• Signal
• Signature block or sig block or sig file, is an appendix to an e-mail or Usenet message

The acronym SIG may stand for:

• Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft, a Swiss packaging company and former railway rolling stock builder and firearms manufacturer whose American offshoot is SIGARMS
• Scientific Interest Group, of the National Institutes of Health
• Special Interest Group, as a community with a common technical interest, especially in the computer field or as a subgroup of an association
• Special Interest Group of Mensa International, an organisation for people with high IQ
• Special interest group, as political advocates or Special interests
• Special interest groups of the Association for Computing Machinery usually include SIG in the name, eg SIGACT, SIGGRAPH, SIGPLAN, SIGCOMM
• Special Interrogation Group or Special Identification Group or Special Intelligence Group, a British Army unit of German-speaking Jewish volunteers during World War 2
• Summer Institute for the Gifted, a USA summer program for gifted children

[edit] See also

• Signature (disambiguation)