noun: An island in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, United Kingdom, any of three islands so named
noun: (US) Initialism of Sarbanes-Oxley Act, officially titled the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002
noun: (US) Initialism of School of the Americas, a US Army training facility subsequently officially known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation
noun: (US) Initialism of Society of Actuaries, one of the two main professional societies of actuaries in the United States
noun: (UK) Initialism of Society of Ancients, an international society based in the UK
noun: Initialism of state of the art. [The condition of scientific or technical knowledge, particularly the peak or highest level thereof, at a particular time.]
noun: (electronics) Initialism of Semiconductor optical amplifier, a device that amplifies an optical signal directly.
noun: (electronics) Initialism of Safe operating area, the current conditions over which a device can be expected to operate without self-damage.
noun: (psychology) Initialism of Stimulus Onset Asynchrony, the time interval between the onset of a first stimulus and the onset of a second stimulus.
noun: (computing, architecture) Initialism of search-oriented architecture. [(computing, architecture, rare) A software-architectural approach that is focused on a search engine.]
noun: (computing, architecture) Initialism of service-oriented architecture. [(computing, architecture) A software architectural concept that defines the use of services to support the requirements of software users.]
noun: (computing, networks) Initialism of Start of Authority, a record that identifies the authoritative Name Server for a specific DNS database segment
noun: (business, accounting, banking) Initialism of statement of account.
