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SAC or sac may refer to:
[edit] Biology
- Sac (biology), a bag like structure possibly containing fluid, in a plant, animal, or fungus.
[edit] United States geography
- Sac City, Iowa
- Sac County, Iowa
- Sac River, a river in southwest Missouri
[edit] Computer science
- SAC: Simple API for CSS developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
- SAC programming language, a strict purely functional programming language
- Selected Areas in Cryptography, an annual cryptography workshop series
- SA-C programming language, a C family language targeted at programming circuits
- Strict Avalanche Criterion, a property of boolean functions of relevance in cryptography
- Superior Art Creations, an underground group of computer art scene enthusiasts
- Special Administration Console, a system console that provides headless server operation
[edit] Education
- St. Andrew's College, multiple colleges named after St. Andrew
- School-assessed coursework, a type of school-based assessment in which students complete the assessment tasks specified in the study design
- Scottish Agricultural College, an organization based in Scotland
- St Aloysius' College, multiple colleges named after St Aloysius
- Student activity center, a type of building found on university campuses
- Students' Administrative Council, University of Toronto, the largest students' union in Canada
- San Antonio College, A College of the Alamo Community Colleges in San Antonio, Texas
[edit] Government/Military
- Senior Aircraftman, a rank in the Royal Air Force
- Senior Assistant Commissioner, a rank in the Singapore Police Force
- Second Artillery Corps, one of four branches of the Chinese armed forces
- Side Arm Controller, developed through the U.S. Army during and after the ADOCS AFCS helicopter program.
- Southern Air Command of the Indian Air Force
- Strategic Air Command, the operational establishment of the United States Air Force in charge of America's bomber-based and ballistic missile-based strategic nuclear arsenal from 1946 to 1992
- Special Agent in Charge, an FBI term for an agent holding a position of authority at the scene of a crime or investigation.
- Supreme Allied Commander, the most senior commander in some multinational military organizations.
- Senate Appropriations Committee, a standing committee of the United States Senate with jurisdiction over all discretionary spending legislation in the Senate.
- Sports Affairs Council, a council under the Executive Yuan of Taiwan.
[edit] Sport
- Socorro ISD Student Activities Complex, a sports and activity complex located in El Paso, Texas
- The Student Activity Center, a sports complex located in Laredo, Texas
- South Atlantic Conference, an athletic conference in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division II
- Schweizer Alpen-Club (Swiss Alpine Club), a Swiss mountaineering club.
[edit] Other
- California State Prison, Sacramento, in the USA
- S-Allyl cysteine, a chemical constituent of garlic
- SAC (Spanish: Satélite Argentino Científico), a series of Argentine research satellites developed by Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales
- Sac (tribe), a group of Native Americans
- SAC Capital Partners, a hedge fund managed by Steven A. Cohen
- Sac spider, a large catch-all taxon for a large group of disparate collection of spiders
- Sacramento Valley Rail Station, California; Amtrak station code SAC
- Scottish Arts Council, a Scottish public body
- Service d'Action Civique, a Gaullist organisation
- Single Acting Cylinder, a type of pneumatic cylinder
- Societas Apostolatus Catholici, a religious congregation within the Roman Catholic Church
- Space Applications Centre, an Indian Space Research Organization Research lab
- Special Area of Conservation, a protected area in the European Union
- Stand Alone Complex, a phenomenon where unrelated actions of individuals create a seemingly concerted effort
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, a Japanese animated TV series
- Suburban Activity Center, a relatively new concentration of business, shopping and entertainment outside a traditional urban area
- "Super Adventure Club", a fictional club of child-molesting explorers from the South Park episode, "The Return of Chef"
- Super Aero City, a bus model of Hyundai Motors
- Sveriges Arbetares Centralorganisation, an anarcho-syndicalist trade union federation in Sweden
- Sac (cuisine) and Sacayağı, traditional Turkish cuisine instruments for baking.
- Sudan Automobile and Tourism Club, a member of the FIA
- Syrian Automobile Club, a member of the FIA