SOC
SOC, SoC, Soc, may refer to:
Science and technology
[edit]- Science Operations Centre, a center of the European Space Agency
- Information security operations center, in an organization, a centralized unit that deals with computer security issues
- Selectable output control
- Separation of concerns, a program design principle in computer science and software engineering
- Service-oriented communications
- Service-oriented computing, another term for Service-oriented architecture
- Soil organic carbon, see Soil carbon
- Solid Oxide Cell, an electrochemical conversion device operating either in SOFC, SOEC, or rSOC mode
- Specialized Oceanographic Center, a center of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Spectrum Operations Committee, a Stanford University independent research center
- spin–orbit coupling
- State of charge, for batteries
- Store-Operated Calcium channel
- Super Optimal Broth with catabolite repression, a bacterial growth medium
- Superior olivary complex
- System on a chip (SoC), in electronic design
- System Organ Class, an organizational division in the dictionary MedDRA
- Substance of Concern
Associations and societies
[edit]- Society (abbr.: "soc.")
- Scottish Ornithologists' Club
- Scouts of China
- Serbian Orthodox Church
- Société des Ornithologistes du Canada, the French name of the Society of Canadian Ornithologists
- Society of Cartographers, United Kingdom
- Society of Operating Cameramen, the original name for the Society of Camera Operators
- Special Olympics Canada
- Syrian Opposition Coalition, better known as the National Coalition
Businesses
[edit]- SOC Films, a film company founded by Pakistani filmmaker and journalist Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
- Sirte Oil Company
- Social overhead capital
- South Oil Company
- SOC Telemed, a telemedicine company backed by Warburg Pincus
- SOC LLC, a security company owned by Day & Zimmermann
- System and Organization Controls, a suite of reports produced during an audit
Military
[edit]- Curtiss SOC Seagull, a US Navy scout observation seaplane produced by Curtiss, first in service in 1935
- Marine expeditionary unit (special operations capable), (MEU (SOC)) a former United States Marine Corps term for a Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU)
- Special Operations Command (disambiguation)
Mathematics
[edit]- Second-order condition, a mathematical condition that distinguishes maxima and minima from other stationary points
- Self-organized criticality, a property of dynamical systems in physics
Transport
[edit]- Adisumarmo International Airport (IATA: SOC), Indonesia
- Southend Central railway station (National Rail station code: SOC), Essex, England
Other uses
[edit]- Google Summer of Code
- School of Communication, a school in American University
- Security operations center, in an organization, a centralized unit that deals with security issues
- The Settlers of Catan, a multiplayer board game
- Shippers Owned Container, intermodal container owned by the shipper or receiver instead of by the shipping line
- Soc (subculture), a 1950s precursor to the preppy look
- Sound of Contact, a British-based rock band
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, a video game
- Standard Occupational Classification System, a system of the United States Department of Labor
- Standard of care, medical or psychological treatment guideline, and can be general or specific
- State of Cambodia, the official English name of the Cambodian pro-Hanoi People's Republic of Kampuchea (PRK) during the transitional times that led to the restoration of the monarchy (1989–1993)
- Statement of claim, a legal document on which one states a cause of action
- Strategic Organizing Center, a group of United States labor unions
- Stream of consciousness (disambiguation), a writing or psychological style with disjointed thoughts
- Swedish Open Championships, an annual table tennis tournament