SAC
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SAC or sac may refer to: In American geography:
- Sac City, Iowa
- Sac County, Iowa
- Sac River, a river in southwest Missouri
In computer science:
- SAC programming language, a strict purely functional programming language
- Selected Areas in Cryptography, an annual cryptography workshop series
- SA-C programming language, a C family language targeted at programming circuits
- Strict Avalanche Criterion, a property of boolean functions of relevance in cryptography
- Superior Art Creations, an underground group of computer art scene enthusiasts
- Special Administration Console, a system console that provides headless server operation
In education:
- St. Andrew's College, multiple colleges named after St. Andrew
- School-assessed coursework, a type of school-based assessment in which students complete the assessment tasks specified in the study design
- Scottish Agricultural College, an organization based in Scotland
- St Aloysius' College, multiple colleges named after St Aloysius
- Student activity center, a type of building found on university campuses
- Students' Administrative Council, University of Toronto, the largest students' union in Canada
In military:
- Senior Aircraftman, a rank in the Royal Air Force
- Senior Assistant Commissioner, a rank in the Singapore Police Force
- Second Artillery Corps, one of four branches of the Chinese armed forces
- Strategic Air Command, the operational establishment of the United States Air Force in charge of America's bomber-based and ballistic missile-based strategic nuclear arsenal from 1946 to 1992
- Special Agent in Charge, an FBI term for an agent holding a position of authority at the scene of a crime or investigation.
In other fields:
- Service d'Action Civique (SAC), a Gaullist organisation
- S-Allyl cysteine, a chemical constituent of garlic
- Sac (tribe), a group of Native Americans
- SAC Capital Partners, a hedge fund managed by Steven A. Cohen
- Sac spider, a large catch-all taxon for a large group of disparate collection of spiders
- Scottish Arts Council, a Scottish public body
- Societas Apostolatus Catholici, a religious congregation within the Roman Catholic Church
- Space Applications Centre, an Indian Space Research Organization Research lab
- Special Area of Conservation, a protected area in the European Union
- Stand Alone Complex, a phenomenon where unrelated actions of individuals create a seemingly concerted effort
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, a Japanese animated TV series
- The "Super Adventure Club", a fictional club of child-molesting explorers from the South Park episode, "The Return of Chef".
- Super Aero City, a bus model of Hyundai Motors
- Sveriges Arbetares Centralorganisation, an anarcho-syndicalist trade union federation in Sweden
- Suburban Activity Center, a relatively new concentration of business, shopping and entertainment outside a traditional urban area
- SAC, (Spanish: Satelite Argentino Cientifico ) a serie of Argentine research satellites developed by CONAE