SOA

Contents 1 Computers, Science, engineering and information technology 2 Organizations, societies and institutes 3 Other 4 Accounting and business 5 Entertainment 5.1 Music groups 5.2 Television 5.3 Video games 6 Geography

SOA may refer to:

Computers, Science, engineering and information technology

• Service-oriented architecture, type of software architecture for creating and using business processes, packaged as services
• Search oriented architecture, the use of search engine technology as the main integration component in an information system
• Semiconductor optical amplifier, optical amplifiers which use a semiconductor to provide the gain medium
• Safe operating area, the voltage and current conditions for a semiconductor to work reliably
• Start of Authority, an important record type in the Domain Name System
• Stimulus onset asynchrony, a measure used in experimental psychology

Organizations, societies and institutes

• School of the Americas, former name for the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHISC or WHINSEC), a U.S. Army training facility at Fort Benning, Georgia
• School of the Arts (disambiguation)
• Scottish Orienteering Association, association for orienteering in Scotland
• Society of Ancients, UK-based, non-profit organization that promotes interest in Ancient & Medieval history and wargaming
• Special Operations Australia, intelligence and special operations agency formed in 1942, currently known as the Services Reconnaissance Department
• State Oceanic Administration, Chinese administrative agency, subordinate to the Ministry of Land and Resources
• Special Operations Association, U.S. special forces A.K.A. "Green Berets".

Other

• State Oceanic Administration of China
• State of the art, the highest level of development

Accounting and business

• Sarbanes-Oxley Act, officially titled the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002
• Society of Actuaries, one of the two main professional societies of actuaries in the United States

Entertainment

Music groups

• Sons of Azrael, deathcore band from Buffalo, New York, formed in 2004
• State of Alert, hardcore punk group formed in Washington, D.C. in 1980, and disbanded in 1981

Television

• Sons of Anarchy, American television drama series that premiered in 2008

Video games

• Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn, 2nd computer role-playing game in the Baldur's Gate series from 2000
• Shards of Alara, 2008 expansion set from the trading card game Magic: The Gathering
• Siege of Avalon, 2000 computer role-playing game created by Digital Tome
• Skies of Arcadia, console role-playing game developed by Overworks for the Dreamcast and published by Sega in 2000
• The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar, 2007 massively multiplayer online role-playing game set in Tolkien's Middle-earth
• Soldiers of Anarchy, squad-based real-time tactics computer game created by Silver Style Entertainment in 2002

Geography

• Super Output Area, geographical region of the United Kingdom used mainly for statistical analysis

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