STAR

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STAR is an acronym for:

Organizations:

• Society for Telescopy, Astronomy, and Radio, a non-profit astronomy club in New Jersey
• Special Tasks and Rescue or Special Tactics and Response, synonyms for SWAT
  • Special Tactics and Rescue (Singapore), of the Singapore Police Force
• Star (strategies + architecture), an architecture office in the Netherlands
• STAR (interbank network), an interbank network
• Standards for Technology in Automotive Retail, a non-profit automotive initiative
• STAR Events, a program of the Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America organization
• STAR Study Association RSM Erasmus University, Europe's largest student association
• Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries, a transgender activist organization founded in 1970
• Supporters Trust At Reading, the Reading Football Club's supporters' trust
• Synagogues: Transformation And Renewal, an organization that helps synagogues deepen their connection within the Jewish community
• STAR (conference), conferences about software testing

Fictional organizations:

• S.T.A.R. Labs, a fictional research organization in the DC Comics universe
• S.T.A.R.S. (Resident Evil); Special Tactics And Rescue Service, a fictional task force in the Resident Evil video game franchise

Technology:

• STAR detector, the Solenoidal Tracker At RHIC one of the major experimental setup at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider located at the Brookhaven National Laboratory
• Self-Defining Text Archive and Retrieval, a computer file format
• 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 Bus, a satellite platform manufactured by Orbital Sciences Corporation
• Steroidogenic acute regulatory protein a transport protein that regulates cholesterol transfer within the mitochondria

Standardized tests:

• Standardized Testing and Reporting (STaR), a measure of school performance in California
• STAR (software), periodic assessments of reading (STAR Reading), early literacy (STAR Early Literacy, SEL), and mathematical (STAR Math) skills created by Renaissance Learning, Inc.
• Supplementary Tests of Achievement in Reading, published by the New Zealand Council for Educational Research

Other:

• Secondary Tertiary Alignment Resource, an program in New Zealand for secondary school students to participate in courses outside of school.
• Sekolah Tuanku Abdul Rahman, a secondary school in Malaysia
• Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race, also known as the OSTAR
• Situation, Task, Action, Result, an interview technique
• SMK Tengku Ampuan Rahimah, a secondary school in Klang, Malaysia
• Standard Terminal Arrival Route, the route that planes follow under instrument flight rules when they approach an airport
• Steroidogenic acute regulatory protein, known as StAR
• STAR TV (Asia), Asian television network owned by News Corporation
• Southern Tagalog Arterial Road, a Philippine highway
• St Andrews Radio[[1]], an internet radio station serving St Andrews in Scotland.

[edit] See also

• Star (disambiguation)