SAS

See also: Appendix:Variations of "sas"

English

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Proper noun

SAS

  1. (UK, Australia, New Zealand, military) Initialism of Special Air Service.
    • 2003, Richard Curtis, Love Actually, spoken by Prime Minister (Hugh Grant):
      The SAS are absolutely charming. Ruthless trained killers are just a phone call away.
    • 2024 January 14, Michael Smith, “Mike Sadler obituary”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 October 2026:
      He was the last original member of the SAS, whose exploits were dramatised in the BBC series SAS: Rogue Heroes (2022), based on the 2016 book of the same name by Ben Macintyre.
  2. Initialism of Scandinavian Airlines System; a joint Swedish, Norwegian and Danish airline company.
  3. (computing) Initialism of Serial Attached SCSI, a computer bus standard for mainly connecting hard drives, but also used for other devices, derived from the SCSI and SATA standards.
  4. (sports) Initialism of San Antonio Spurs, American basketball club.

Translations

Noun

SAS

  1. (aviation) Initialism of stability augmentation system.
  2. (Australia, education) Initialism of special assistance school.
  3. (computing) Initialism of secure attention sequence.
  4. Initialism of space adaptation syndrome.

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French

Pronunciation

Noun

SAS f (plural SASs)

  1. (law enforcement) abbreviation of section des agressions sexuelles (“sexual assault squad”)
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