STAR
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STAR is an acronym for:
Organizations
- Society for Telescopy, Astronomy, and Radio, a non-profit New Jersey astronomy club.
- Special Tactics and Rescue of the Singapore Police Force
- Special Tactics and Response or Special Tasks and Rescue, synonyms of SWAT
- Star (strategies + architecture), an architecture office in the Netherlands
- STAR, an interbank network
- STAR Repair, the Best Buy Repair and Service Database, based on Clarify eFrontOffice
- Standards for Technology in Automotive Retail - A non-profit automotive initiative to create voluntary IT standards for how manufacturers, dealers, and customers communicate with each other.
- Students Taking Action with Recognition, in STAR Events. A Program in FCCLA.
- Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries, a transgender activist organization founded in 1970
- STAR - Supporters' Trust at Reading --the Reading Football Club's supporters' trust
Fictional organizations
- Scientific and Technological Advanced Research Labs, a fictional research organization in the DC Comics universe.
- S.T.A.R.S.; Special Tactics And Rescue Service, a fictional task force in the Resident Evil video game franchise
Technology
- Satellite Television Asian Region, see STAR TV (Asia)
- Shock Trauma and Rescue, or Shock Trauma Air Rescue, a synonym for air ambulance
- Source tree adaptive routing protocol, a method of organizing wireless mesh networks
- STAR Solenoidal Tracker At RHIC, one of the four detectors at the RHIC
Standardized tests
- Standardized Testing and Reporting, a measure of school performance in California
- STAR Math, STAR Reading, or STAR Early Literacy--periodic assessments of mathematical, reading, and early literacy abilities, respectively, created by Renaissance Learning, Inc. The acronym, which used to refer to reading, lost its meaning with the release of STAR Math.
- Supplementary Tests of Achievement in Reading published by the New Zealand Council for Educational Research
Miscellaneous
- Sekolah Tuanku Abdul Rahman, a secondary school in Malaysia
- Self-Defining Text Archive and Retrieval - file format
- Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race, also known as the OSTAR
- Situation, Task, Action, Result, an interview technique
- Standard Terminal Arrival Route, the route that planes follow under instrument flight rules when they approach an airport
- StAR, see Steroidogenic acute regulatory protein
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