Sax

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Sax or SAX may refer to:

Places

• Sax, Alicante, a municipality in Spain
• Sax, Minnesota, United States, an unincorporated community
• Sax, a village in the Sennwald municipality in Switzerland
• Saxmundham, UK, a colloquial short form used in East Suffolk
• 3534 Sax, an asteroid

People

• Sax (surname)
• Oett M. Mallard (1915-1986), also known as Sax Mallard, Chicago-based jazz saxophonist and bandleader
• Sax Rohmer, pen name of Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward (1883–1959), English novelist best known for creating the villain Fu Manchu
• Lincoln Thompson (1949-1999), Jamaican reggae singer, musician and songwriter also known as Sax

Acronyms

• BeppoSAX catalogue (SAX), also called BX and 1SAX, in x-ray astronomy
• SAX, the Bratislava Stock Exchange stock index
• Simple API for XML, a method of reading data files in computing
• SaX, the SUSE Linux tool for configuring graphics hardware (SuSE advanced X Window System-configuration)
• South African Express, a South African regional airline

Other

• short for saxophone, a musical instrument
• Seax, also spelled sax, an ancient Germanic, single-edged knife
• sax, a traditional Aleut coat made from bird skins and sea otter fur
• Baron of Sax, later Sax-Hohensax, a Swiss title - see Hohensax castle
• ISO 639 code for the Saa language, spoken in Vanuatu
• SA-X, an enemy in the video game Metroid Fusion

See also

• Doctor Sax, a novel by Jack Kerouac
• Small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS)
• Sachs
• Sachse, Texas
• Saks (disambiguation)
• Saxe (disambiguation)
• Zaks, a building toy
• Zax (disambiguation)

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