SID

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This page is disambiguation for just the acronym SID, not the name or term Sid.

The acronym SID can refer to:

• Amilcar Cabral International Airport, Sal Island, Cape Verde.
• Standard Instrument Departure at airports, also referred to as “Departure Procedure” (DP)
• Security and Intelligence Department, Singapore foreign intelligence service.
• Sensory Integration Dysfunction
• Source Image Distance in Diagnostic Radiography (previously referred to as FFD)
• Servizio Informazioni Difesa, Italian military secret service from 1965 to 1977 (replaced by the SISMI)
• mSIN3 interaction domain, a transcription repression protein domain
• Submission IDentifier, used for identifying form submitted to FDA by regulated firms
• Sudden infant death syndrome
• Sudden Ionospheric Disturbance
• Society for Information Display, a professional society dedicated to the study of the physics and engineering of display devices
• Sports Information Director, a position title similar to PR Director or Press Secretary, usually within University/School Systems athletic departments
• Special Investigation Division, U.S. police unit investigating specific crimes.
• Service for Research and Documentation (Sluzba za Istrazivanje i Dokumentaciju) in Serbian, as part of Federal Secretariat for Foreign Affairs SFRY

[edit] Fictional uses

• Space Intruder Detector, an early-warning satellite in the British television series UFO

[edit] Computing and consumer electronics

SID often appears as a computing / consumer electronics three-letter acronym:

• MOS Technology SID, the Sound Interface Device (built-in sound chip) used in the Commodore CBM-II, Commodore 64 and Commodore 128 home computers
• Security Identifier:
  • In modern Microsoft Windows operating systems, the Security Identifier (SID) is a unique alphanumeric character string that identifies each operating system and each user in a network of NT/2000/XP systems
  • SELinux: an opaque reference to a security context
• Source Identification Code, as used on CD-ROMs
• Symbolic Instruction Debugger, a debugger for CP/M
• A story identifier which uniquely identifies an article in Slash-based sites, such as Slashdot
• Oracle database users may refer to a SID in at least two different contexts:
  • the Oracle System Identifier, which labels a database instance and identifies a running database to the outer world
  • a session identifier, used internally to refer to a user database session
• System Identification Number Identifies an Analog, TDMA or CDMA system
• Silence Insertion Descriptor, used in speech encoding, allows transmission of silence at a compressed rate
• NGOSS Shared Information/Data Model, Definition of NGOSS’s common Information Model [1]
• Seamless Image Database (See MrSID)

[edit] See also

• Sid, a given name