Sol (disambiguation)

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Sol is most commonly the name or personification of the Sun.

Other meanings and uses of sol, SoL or SOL are below:

Contents 1 Abbreviations 2 Acronyms 3 Currency 4 People 5 Other 6 See also

[edit] Abbreviations

• Solar system
• Klondike solitaire, card game (named Sol as part of the GNOME desktop environment)
• Solution
• Olympic country code for the Solomon Islands
• Martian day

[edit] Acronyms

• Saudi Online, an Internet service provider in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
• Satellite Orbital Laser, in the manga and anime Akira
• Scars of Life
• Secure Operations Language
• Space occupying lesion, a medical term
• Speed of light
• Statute of limitations, a legal term
• Stadium of Light, the home of Sunderland A.F.C.
• Joseph Darnand's Service d'ordre légionnaire, a collaborationist militia during Vichy France
• Sleep Onset Latency, a measure of the time it takes to fall asleep after going to bed
• Standards of Learning, a set of standards that students in schools in Virginia are expected meet before graduation
• Standard of living, the possessions and material wealth of a population
• The Satellite of Love, the fictional spaceship featured in the comedy TV series Mystery Science Theater 3000
• Serial over LAN
• Straight Outta Lynwood, "Weird Al" Yankovic's 12th album
• The Shadows of Luclin (SoL), an expansion to the Everquest computer game
• Society for Organizational Learning
• "Shit out of luck."
• "Solely Out of Luck"
• The Syndicate Of London
• Societas Orientalium Liturgiarum, or Society of Oriental Liturgy, convened for the first time at Eichstaett, Bavaria, in 2006.

[edit] Currency

• The Peruvian sol, used in Peru between 1863 and 1985
• The Peruvian nuevo sol, named after the earlier sol, introduced in 1991
• The sol (later sou), a coin used in France during the 13th–18th century, derived from the Roman solidus
• The SOL Project, a complementary currency under development in France

[edit] People

• Sol., a citation abbreviation for Daniel Solander, a standard botanical author
• Sol Badguy, a bounty hunter character of the Guilty Gear game series
• Sol Campbell, a soccer player
• Sol (comedian), a fictional character created by Marc Favreau
• Sol (god), sun god in Roman mythology
• Sol (goddess), the goddess of the sun in Norse mythology
• Solomon "Sol" Trujillo, CEO of Telstra

[edit] Other

• Sol (beer), a beer brewed by Cervecería Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma in Mexico
• Sol (colloid), suspensions of solid particles in a liquid
• Sol gel, a colloidal suspension of silicon dioxide that is gelled to form a solid
• Sol, the fifth note of the solfege music scale
• Warp drive, called sol in some non-English versions of the Star Trek television series
• Sol, a city in the video game Legend of Legaia
• Sol, one of six South Devon Railway Gorgon class steam locomotives
• "Sol", a song by Kinky from their 2002 album Kinky
• Sol, the central station of the Madrid Metro network.
• The Sols, source of balance in the Twilight Realm in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.
• The Sol computer, Processor Technology's Sol-20 Home computer
• S.O.L. (manga), Ryoji Minagawa's 2006 manga.
• sol.exe is the executable file for Microsoft Windows Solitaire

[edit] See also

• Sole