SOA

  1. (initialism) .  Safe operating area, the current conditions over which a device can be expected to operate without self-damage.
  2. (initialism) .  School of the Americas, a US Army training facility subsequently officially known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation.
  3. (initialism) .  (computing) ''Service-oriented Architecture'': a software architectural concept that defines the use of services to support the requirements of software users.
  4. (initialism) .  Semiconductor Optical Amplifier, a device that amplifies an optical signal directly.
  5. (initialism) .  Society of Actuaries, one of the two main professional societies of actuaries in the United States.
  6. (initialism) .  Society of Ancients, an international society based in the UK .
  7. (initialism) .  Domain Name System|Start of Authority, in network computing, a SOA record identifies the authoritative Name Server for a specific DNS database segment.
  8. (initialism) .  State of the art, the highest level of development.
  9. (initialism) .  Sarbanes-Oxley Act, officially titled the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002.
  10. (initialism) .  Stimulus Onset Asynchrony, the time interval between the onset of a first stimulus and the onset of a second stimulus.
  11. (initialism) .  Standard abbreviation for Stordalen railway station in Sweden.
  12. (initialism) .  Standard abbreviation for Soinlahti railway station in Finland.

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