Sim

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Sim can refer to:

• An abbreviation of the word simulation
• "Sim (Pencil Game)", a pencil game
• Simming, text-based Role-playing game
• Studio for Interrelated Media, an art concentration at the Massachusetts College of Art
• Subscriber Identity Module, a smart card used in mobile phones
• Sim games, real-time strategy/simulation games usually developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts
  • The Sims and its sequel The Sims 2, strategic life simulation computer games by Maxis
  • A single Sim
• Security Information Management, an approach to securing data

[edit] Names

• Sim or Sims, a British Surname
• Sim, a Chinese Surname
• Sim, a Korean Surname
• Alastair Sim, the actor
• Dave Sim, author of the comic book Cerebus
• Sim Wong Hoo, founder of the world-leading entertainment manufacturing company, Creative Technology.
• Sim (Star Trek), a fictional character in the TV series Star Trek: Enterprise.
• SIM from Tricycle Inc., a carpet simulation based upon computer-aided design or CAD

[edit] Locations

• Sim (town), a town in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia

[edit] Acronyms

The acronym SIM can stand for:

• Scalable Island Multicast
• Servicio de Inteligencia Militar, the Dominican secret police under Trujillo
• Servizio Informazione Militare, Italian military intelligence
• Serving In Mission, a Christian missionary operation
• Siberian International Marathon
• Singapore Institute of Management
• Simple Instant Messenger
• The Society for Information Management
• Space Interferometry Mission, a NASA project to determine distances of stars
• Subscriber Identity Module, a smart card used in cellular phones
• Systems In Motion, a Norwegian software company
• Security Information Management System
• Sharp Interface Model
• Switching of Intake-manifold Length
• Student information management, see student information system