SAS

See also: sas, s.a.s., sás, sås, sâs, and šās

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Proper noun

SAS

1. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, military) Initialism of Special Air Service; an elite unit of the British army. Similar units operate in the Australian and New Zealand armies.
2. (Scandinavia) Initialism of Scandinavian Airlines System; a joint Swedish, Norwegian and Danish airline company.
3. (computing) Initialism of Serially Attached SCSI, a computer bus standard for mainly connecting hard drives, but also used for other devices, derived from the SCSI and SATA standards.

Related terms

• (military): SBS
• (computing): SCSI, iSCSI, SATA

Translations

military

• Russian: Особая воздушная слу́жба (Osobaja vozdušnaja slúžba), спецна́з (ru) (specnáz)

Anagrams

• -ass, ASS, SSA, ass