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SOS is the common name of the international Morse code distress signal.

Contents

• Places
• People
• Arts, entertainment, and media
• Films
• Games
• Literature
• Music
• Television
• Computing, and technology
• Food
• Government and military
• Mathematics
• Medicine and science
• Organizations
• Sport
• Other uses
• See also

SOS may also refer to:

Places

• Sos, Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan, a village in Khojavend District
• Sos, Lot-et-Garonne, France, a commune in southern France
• Sos del Rey Católico, Aragon, Spain, a town in Zaragoza Province

People

• Bill Sayer (1934–1989), an English rugby league player nicknamed Sos
• sOs (gamer), a StarCraft II esports player
• Shaun Marsh (born 1983), an Australian cricketer nicknamed SOS (Son of Swampy)
• Sós, a surname
• Stephen Silvagni (born 1967), an Australian football player nicknamed SOS
• S.O.S (born Eskil Pedersen, 07.27.2005) is a Norwegian/English artist

Arts, entertainment, and media

Computing, and technology

• Apple SOS, an operating system
• Science On a Sphere, a display system
• Secure Our Smartphones, New York State and San Francisco initiative
• Sensor Observation Service, a standardized web service (OGC)
• Scrum of scrums, in software development
• SHARE Operating System, IBM
• Silicon on sapphire, a circuit-manufacturing process
• Son of sysreport, in Linux; see Red Hat § Utilities and tools
• Special ordered set, in optimization
• Structural operational semantics, in computer programming
• System of systems, in systems engineering

Food

• S.O.S. (appetizer), Swedish
• "Shit On a Shingle", US military slang for chipped beef on toast

Government and military

• Secretary of state
• Services of Supply, a branch of the United States army
• Special Operations Squadron, United States Air Force units
• Squadron Officer School, a United States Air Force leadership school
• State Defense Guard (Czechoslovakia), 1918–1936

Mathematics

• Polynomial SOS, decomposing into a sum of squares
• Sum of squares (disambiguation), in mathematics

Medicine and science

• Si opus sit , use medicine if needed
• Sinusoidal obstruction syndrome, a medical condition
• Son of Sevenless, a type of gene
• SOS response, a DNA repair system

Organizations

• Boat People SOS, a Vietnamese-American association
• Samaritans of Singapore, a suicide prevention centre
• Save Outdoor Sculpture!, a program of Heritage Preservation from 1989–1999
• Secular Organizations for Sobriety, an addiction recovery program
• Share Our Strength, a US hunger relief organization
• SOS Children's Villages, an organization that maintains housing and services for children without stable parental care
• SOS Sahel Ethiopia, a non-governmental organization in Ethiopia working on rural development
• Stop Our Ship (SOS), an antiwar movement during the Vietnam War

Sport

• Side out scoring, a competition where a team can only earn points when serving
• Strength of schedule, a competitor rating statistic
• Survival of the Shawangunks, a triathlon held in New Paltz, New York

Other uses

• Södersjukhuset, a hospital in Stockholm, Sweden
• Somali shilling (ISO 4217 code: SOS), currency of Somalia
• SOS incident, several missing person incidents in Hokkaidō, Japan in the 1980s
• S.O.S Soap Pads

See also

• SoS (disambiguation)

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