SAR explained

SAR or Sar may refer to:

Places

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

Business and finance

• Parabolic SAR (stop and reverse), a method of technical stock analysis
• Saudi riyal, currency code SAR
• Stock appreciation right, an employee reward

Computing

• Segmentation and reassembly, in data networks
• 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

• Search and rescue
• 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
• 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

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

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

Military

• Sandfontein Artillery Regiment, an artillery regiment of the South African Army
• State Artillery Regiment, an artillery regiment of the South African Army

Other uses

• Sar (surname)
• Sar, an uthra (angel) in Mandaeism
• Sar language, a Bongo–Bagirmi language of southern Chad
• Sample of Anonymised Records, based on the UK population census
• Special administrative region, territorial entity designation
• Student Aid Report, sent to applicants of U.S. federal financial aid for college
• Subject access request, in data protection law
• Super Animal Royale, a 2021 video game developed by Pixile Studios

See also

• Saar (disambiguation)
• SARS (disambiguation)