Sol Explained

Sol or SOL may refer to:

Astronomy

• The Sun
• Mars sol, solar day on Mars

Currency

• SOL Project, a currency project in France
• French sol, or sou
• Argentine sol
• Bolivian sol, the currency of Bolivia from 1827 to 1864
• Peruvian sol, introduced in 1991
• Peruvian sol (1863–1985)
• Solana (blockchain platform) (SOL), a cryptocurrency

Entertainment, arts and media

Music

• G (musical note) or sol, a note of the solfege music scale
• G major or sol, a musical key
• Sol (band), a Canadian indie rock band active in the 1990s
• Sol (album), an album by electronic musician Eskmo
• Sol, an album by Ougenweide
• Shit Out of Luck, a 1996 album by The Lillingtons
• "Sol", a song by British metalcore band Oceans Ate Alaska

Gaming

• The Shadows of Luclin, sometimes referred to as SoL, an expansion to the Everquest computer game
• Sol Badguy, a character in the Guilty Gear video games
• Sol Squadron, an enemy squadron in the video game

Newspapers

• Sol (newspaper), a weekly newspaper published in Portugal
• soL (newspaper), a daily left-leaning newspaper published in Turkey

Other uses in arts and entertainment

• Sol (comedian), a creation of Marc Favreau
• Sol (film), a 2014 Canadian documentary
• Sol, a cat in Warriors (novel series)

Mythology

• Sol (Roman mythology), a Roman sun god
• Sól (Germanic mythology), a Germanic sun goddess

People

• Sol (given name), a given name
• Sol (Korean surname)
• Sol., author citation (botany) for Daniel Solander (1733–1782), Swedish botanical author
• Sol (musician), hip hop performer Sol Moravia-Rosenberg
• Oliver Lieb (born 1969), sometimes known as S.O.L., German electronic music producer and DJ
• Taeyang or SOL (born 1988), Korean singer

Science and technology

Computing

• Secure Operations Language
• Serial over LAN
• Simple Object Language, the ancestor of Lua programming language
• sol (format), a file format for presenting solutions of mathematical programming problems
• Sol-20, an early microcomputer produced by the Processor Technology Corporation
• Sol (laptop), a solar-powered laptop by WeWi Telecommunications
• .sol, a local shared object file format
• /, the XML/HTML character entity for the slash (punctuation)

Medicine

• Sleep onset latency - length of time of the transition from full wakefulness to sleep
• Space-occupying lesion of the brain can be caused by different pathology such as a malignancy, an abscess or a haematoma

Other uses in science and technology

• Sol (colloid), a type of suspension
• Sol geometry, a three-dimensional Riemannian manifold
• Safety service, safety-of-life service (SoL)

Sports

• Austin Sol, an American Ultimate Disc League team
• Los Angeles Sol, a defunct professional soccer team
• Miami Sol, a defunct Women's National Basketball Association team
• Sonoma County Sol, an American soccer team

Transportation

• Sol (car marque), a car brand in the Chinese market
• Sol Líneas Aéreas, an airline in Argentina
• Sol Linhas Aéreas, an airline in Brazil
• Sol (Madrid Metro), a station on Line 1, 2 and 3
• Solana Beach Transit Center, a train station serving Solana Beach, California
• Stratford–Okahukura Line, a secondary railway line in New Zealand
• Honda CR-X del Sol, a small car manufactured by Honda

Other uses

• Statute of limitations, in criminal prosecution
• Skilled Occupation List, skilled occupations acceptable for migration to Australia
• Standards of Learning, a set of standards Virginia students must meet before graduation
• California State Prison, Solano (SOL), United States
• Service d'ordre légionnaire, a collaborationist militia in Vichy, France
• Soľ, a village in eastern Slovakia
• Sol (river), a river in Russia
• Society for Organizational Learning, an American organization working on corporate sustainability
• Sol, an additional summer month in the proposed International Fixed Calendar
• Sol, a beer produced by the Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma Brewery
• Senator On-Line, an Australian political party
• The Social Liberals (Austria), a minor political party
• Solomon Islands, IOC
• The Sol Foundation, a think tank based in California

See also

• El Sol (disambiguation)
• Sól (disambiguation)
• Sols (disambiguation)
• Sol Invictus (disambiguation)
• Sole (disambiguation)
• Soul (disambiguation)