SAR

SAR or Sar may refer to:

People

• Sar (surname)
• Sar language, a Bongo–Bagirmi language of southern Chad

Places

• Sar, Bahrain, a residential district
• Sar, Iran (disambiguation), several places in Iran
• Šar Mountains, in southeastern Europe
• Sar (river), Galicia, Spain
• Sar, Tibet, Tibet Autonomous Region of China
• Syrian Arab Republic

General acronyms

• Sample of Anonymised Records, based on the UK Population Census
• Search and rescue
• Special administrative region
• Special administrative region of China (of the People's Republic of China)
• Student Aid Report, sent to applicants of U.S. federal financial aid for college

Business

• Saudi riyal, ISO 4217 currency code
• Stock appreciation right, an employee reward
• Parabolic SAR (stop and reverse), a method of technical stock analysis
• Subject Access Request, a request to an organisation for information it holds on oneself in the UK

Computing

• Segmentation and Reassembly chip
• Service Archive or SAR, a file format related to JAR
• Shift Arithmetically Right (SAR), an x86 instruction
• Storage Aspect Ratio of a digital image
• sar (Unix), or system activity report, a Unix/Linux performance report utility

Law enforcement

• International Convention on Maritime Search and Rescue (SAR Convention)
• Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting Initiative, US
• Suspicious activity report, by a financial institution to an authority

Science

Medicine, psychology, and biology

• Scaffold/matrix attachment region or scaffold-attachment region, DNA sequences
• Sexual Attitude Reassessment
• Specific absorption rate, of RF energy by the human body
• Stramenophiles, Aveolates and Rhizeria (SAR supergroup), a clade within eukaryotes
• Structure–activity relationship of biological effect of a molecule
• Systemic acquired resistance of a plant to a pathogen

Science and technology

• IPCC Second Assessment Report
• Semi-automatic rifle
• SAR 21, Singapore Assault Rifle – 21st century
• SAR-87 (Sterling SAR-87), 1980s military assault rifle
• Sar (astronomy), 9 years 5 days, a period separating eclipses
• Spent Acid Regeneration of sulfuric acid
• Sodium adsorption ratio, an irrigation water quality parameter
• Submarine Advanced Reactor program of USS Triton
• Successive Approximation Register of a successive approximation ADC
• Synthetic-aperture radar, imaging radar

Organizations

• SAR Academy, yeshiva in Riverdale, New York, US
  • SAR High School, the high school of SAR Academy
• SAR Records, an American record label
• Scholars at Risk, a network supporting academic freedom
• School for Advanced Research in anthropology and related fields, Santa Fe, New Mexico, US
• Sigma Alpha Rho, a high school fraternity, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
• Society for Artistic Research
• Sons of the American Revolution, US organisation

Railways

• Saudi Railway Company
• Savage Alberta Railway, Alberta, Canada, reporting mark
• South Australian Railways 1854–1978
• South African Railways, now part of Transnet Freight Rail

See also

• Saar (disambiguation)
• SARS (disambiguation)