Since 1998, the Casia Corporation Holland have been working on The Definitive TLA Wörterbuch to help people find their way in the ever growing intellectual chaos caused by the late-twentieth century tendency to use as many acronyms in the daily communication as possible. Especially acronyms with a length of three letters have been and continue to be immensly popular, not only in Information and Communication Technology circles, but also among people in more mundane fields of labour; a tendency that has mushroomed with the advent of mobile communication and the combined growing popularity of Short Message Services.
At present, there are 4895 (3244 distinct) TLA's in the database.
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| S | ||
| SAA | Stichting Afzetbevordering Asperge | |
| Systems Application Architecture | ||
| SAC | Strategic Air Command | |
| Supreme Allied Commander | ||
| SAD | System Architecture Definition | |
| SAE | School of Audio Engineering | |
| Self-Adressed Enveloppe | ||
| SAF | San Adreas Fault | |
| SAG | Sammie America's Gasphetti | |
| Screen Actors Guild | ||
| SAK | Studien zur Altagyptischen Kultur | |
| SAM | Surfcace to Air Missile | |
| SAN | Storage Area Network | |
| SAO | Session At Once | |
| SAP | Silverlight Application Package | |
| Sintered Aluminium Powder | ||
| Social Action Party | ||
| Socialistiese Arbeiders Partij | ||
| Systeme, Anwendungen & Produkte i/d datenverarbeitung | ||
| SAR | Search And Rescue | |
| Son Altesse Royale | ||
| Specific Absorption Rates | ||
| Su Alteza Real | ||
| Synthetic Aperture Radar | ||
| SAS | Scandinavian Airlines System | |
| Serial Attached SCSI | ||
| So-And-So | ||
| Special Air Service | ||
| SAT | Service Action Team | |
| System Analysis Toolkit | ||
| SAV | Single Assignment Variable | |
| SAX | Simple API for XML | |
| Space Architect Exercise | ||
| SBA | Simulation Based Aquisition | |
| Swiss Bank Approach | ||
| SBB | Schweizerische Bundesbahn | |
| Sleutels, Barnard en Van der Beek | ||
| Staatsbosbeheer | ||
| SBC | Server Based Computing | |
| SBD | Silent But Deadly | |
| SBM | Sharon Bertsch McGrayne | |
| SBO | Samenwerkende Borstvoeding Organisaties | |
| SBS | Scandinavian Broadcasting System | |
| Site by Site | ||
| Small Business Server | ||
| SBU | studiebelastingsuren | |
| SBV | Sectorale Berichten Voorziening | |
| SCA | Single-Connector Attachment (SCSI) | |
| Supreme Council of Antiquities | ||
| SCC | Sarah Connor Chronicles | |
| Ship's Control Centre | ||
| Source Code Control | ||
| SCF | Sport Club Feyenoord | |
| SCG | Sydney Cricket Ground | |
| SCI | System configuration information | |
| SCM | Simon Conway Morris | |
| Software Configuration Management | ||
| Supply Chain Management | ||
| SCO | Santa Cruz Operation | |
| Sturing van het Creatief Ontwerp | ||
| SCP | Sanctioned Competition Program | |
| Secure Copy | ||
| Sociaal Cultureel Planbureau | ||
| SCR | Selective Catalytic Reduction | |
| Silicon Controlled Rectifier | ||
| Stotter Centrum Rijnland | ||
| Sveriges Campingvärdars Riksförbund | ||
| SCS | School of Computer Science | |
| SDB | Stichting Disposables Benelux | |
| SDF | Six Degrees of Freedom | |
| SDG | Spencer Davis Group | |
| Stichting Draadloos Groningen | ||
| SDI | Software distribution network information | |
| Strategic Defence Initiative | ||
| SDL | Scene Description Language | |
| Simple Directmedia Layer | ||
| SDM | Self Destruct Mode | |
| Software Development Magazine | ||
| Stichting Democratie en Media | ||
| Sun Download Manager | ||
| SDN | Software distribution network | |
| Stichting Dranken Nederland | ||
| SDO | Solar Dynamics Observatory | |
| SDP | Standard Dating Protocol | |
| SDU | Staatsdrukkerij en -uitgeverij | |
| SDV | Semicolon Divided Values | |
| SEC | Securities and Exchange Commission | |
| Start Evaluatie Curriculum | ||
| SEM | Scanning Electron Microscope | |
| Scientifically Engineered Maintenance | ||
| Society for Ethnomusicology | ||
| Society for Experimental Mechanics | ||
| Space Experimental Module | ||
| Structural Equation Modeling | ||
| SEO | Search Engine Optimalization | |
| Search Engine Optimizer | ||
| SEP | Samenwerkende Elektriciteitsproducenten | |
| Someone Else's Problem | ||
| Standard Evaluation Protocol | ||
| Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy | ||
| SER | Sociaal Economische Raad | |
| SES | Special Enforcement Squad | |
| Swift Exit Seat | ||
| SET | Secure Electronic Transaction | |
| Secure Electronic Transactions | ||
| Stone's Embedding Theorem | ||
| SFA | Scotish Football Association | |
| SFB | Sunken Feature Building | |
| SFC | Sporthuis Fucking Centrum | |
| SFD | Sound File Data | |
| SFE | San Francisco Earthquake | |
| SFI | Severely Fuckable Individual | |
| SFS | Super Fun Saturday | |
| SFT | So Fucking Tired | |
| SFX | Special Effects | |
| SGC | Sport Gezondheids Centrum | |
| SGI | Silicon Graphics, Inc. | |
| SGL | Sydney Gamers League | |
| SGP | Staatkundig Gereformeerde Partij | |
| SGR | Some Great Reward | |
| Stichting Garantiefonds Reisgelden | ||
| SGS | Still Going Strong | |
| SHD | Snoei Harde Disco | |
| SHG | Sugar Hill Gang | |
| SHO | Samenwerkende Hulporganisaties | |
| SHR | Spontaneously Hypertensive Rat | |
| Staff Human Resources | ||
| State Highway Route | ||
| Steroid Hormone Receptor | ||
| SID | Sound Interface Device | |
| SIF | Safe Internet Foundation | |
| Setup installation files | ||
| SIG | Software Improvement Group | |
| Special Interest Group | ||
| Sphere Interest Group | ||
| Susquehanna International Group | ||
| SIM | Sportinformatiemarkt | |
| Subscriber Identity Module | ||
| SIP | Software for Intellectual Property | |
| SIR | Semantic Information Retrieval | |
| SIS | Science In Society | |
| Secret Intelligence Service | ||
| Student Informatie Systeem | ||
| SIU | Sterrenkundig Instituut Utrecht | |
| SIV | Simmian Immunodeficiency Virus | |
| Structured Investment Vehicle | ||
| SJG | Stephen Jay Gould | |
| SKF | Schermkring Friesland | |
| SKI | Stiftung füKunstigen Intelligenz | |
| SKT | Sociaal Kunstzinnige Therapie | |
| SLA | Service Level Agreement | |
| Single Letter Acronym | ||
| Stereo Lithograph Apparatus | ||
| Swim Lane Approach | ||
| SLB | Studie Loopbaan Begeleiding | |
| SLC | Stereo Lithography Contour | |
| SLF | Simple Logging Facade | |
| SLJ | Samuel Leroy Jackson | |
| SLM | Surinaamse LuchtvaartMaatschappij | |
| SLR | Shift Logical Right | |
| Single Lense Reflexcamera | ||
| SLT | Second Law of Thermodynamics | |
| SMB | Server Message Block | |
| Surface Marker Buoy | ||
| SMD | Studenten Moeten Dood! | |
| Surface Mount Device | ||
| SMF | Sexy Mother Fucker | |
| SMG | Sarah Michelle Gellar | |
| Sub-Machine Gun | ||
| Suck My Goat | ||
| SMI | Self Mounting Image | |
| SML | Senate Majority Leader | |
| Stichting Machinale Landbouw | ||
| SMN | Samenwerkingsverband van Marokkanen in Nederland | |
| SMP | Service-MeldPunt | |
| Stable Marriage Problem | ||
| Symmetric MultiProcessing | ||
| SMR | School MedezeggenschapsRaad | |
| SMS | Short Message Service | |
| SMT | School of Media and Technology | |
| SMV | Stolen Motor Vehicle | |
| SNA | Stichting voor de Nederlandse Archeologie | |
| SNE | Startvaardigheden Nederlands en Engels | |
| SNF | Saturday Night Fever | |
| SNG | Sint Nikolaas Genootschap | |
| SNH | Secundaire Nutritionele Hyperparathyroïdie | |
| SNP | Scottish National Party | |
| Sensorisch Neurale Problemen | ||
| Single Nucleotide Polymorphism | ||
| SNV | Stichting Nederlandse Vrijwilligers | |
| SOA | Seksueel Overdraagbare Aandoening | |
| Senior Organisatie Adviseur | ||
| Service Oriented Architecture | ||
| Service-Oriented Architecture | ||
| Start Of Authority | ||
| SOB | Son of a Bitch | |
| SOC | Scenes of Crime | |
| Service-Oriented Computing | ||
| SOF | Special Operational Forces | |
| SOG | Studie Ontwijkend Gedrag | |
| SOH | Start Of Heading | |
| SOI | Schermers Onder Invloed | |
| Sillicon On Insulator | ||
| SOJ | Sphere Online Judge | |
| SOK | StudieOvereenKomst | |
| SOL | Speed Of Light | |
| SOP | Salwatoriański Ośrodek Powołań | |
| School of Pharmacy | ||
| SchoolOntwikkelingsProcessen | ||
| Service Orthodoxe de Presse | ||
| Seynaeve Objectos Publicitários | ||
| Síndrome de Ovarios Poliquísticos | ||
| Small Outline Package | ||
| socialistická organizace pracujících | ||
| Société Odontologique de Paris | ||
| Some Other Problem | ||
| Sozio-oekonomische Panel | ||
| Standing Operating Procedure | ||
| Statement of Purpose | ||
| Státní opera Praha | ||
| Stichting Onafhankelijke Partners | ||
| Strana Občianskeho Porozumenia | ||
| Strategisch Ontwikkelings Plan | ||
| Stream of Praise | ||
| Subject-oriented programming | ||
| Sum Of Products | ||
| Surface OPerator (houdini) | ||
| Systeem Ontwikkeling en Programmering | ||
| SOS | Save Our Souls | |
| Sea Of SIn | ||
| Service Oriented Systems | ||
| Sinkhole Of Support | ||
| SOW | Speaking Of Which | |
| SPD | Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands | |
| Spam Moet Dood | ||
| Studio Provisioning Demo | ||
| SPE | Sound Pattern of English | |
| SPG | Special Patrol Group | |
| SPH | Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics | |
| SPI | Service Provider Interface | |
| SPM | Software Portfolio Monitoring | |
| SPP | Serial Port Profile | |
| SPS | Small Penis Syndrome | |
| Station Police Sergeant | ||
| SPU | Studenten Protest Utrecht | |
| SQC | Sponaneous Quality Cycle | |
| SQJ | Software Quality Journal | |
| SQL | Structured Query Language | |
| SQS | Simple Queue Service | |
| SRA | Satanic Ritual Abuse | |
| Software Risk Assessment | ||
| SRB | Solid Rocket Booster | |
| Stichting Rokers Belangen | ||
| SRC | Société Royale du Canada | |
| Stichting Reclame Code | ||
| SRI | Stanford Research Institute | |
| SRL | Stichting Revalidatie Limburg | |
| Survival Research Labs | ||
| SRM | Service Repair Manual | |
| Standard Reference Model | ||
| SRO | Station Reception Officer | |
| SRS | Solar Radio Spectograph | |
| SRT | Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar | |
| Special Response Team | ||
| SSA | Segment Search Arguments | |
| Stichting Studenten Activiteiten | ||
| Stovepipe System AntiPattern | ||
| SSC | Shader Sanity Check | |
| Shared Service Center | ||
| Studenten Service Centrum | ||
| SSD | Solid State Drive | |
| SSE | Sensitive Site Exploitation | |
| SSF | Single Status Friends | |
| SSH | Secure Shell | |
| Stichting StudentenHuisvesting | ||
| SSI | Server Side Include | |
| Server Sided Issue | ||
| SSL | Secure Socket Layer | |
| SSM | Solid State Music | |
| SSN | Social Security Number | |
| SSO | Single Sign On | |
| SSP | Signaal Special Products | |
| Surface Science Package | ||
| SSS | Sigue Sigue Sputnik | |
| Simple Software Solutions | ||
| Simple Storage Service | ||
| Stepping Stone Strategy | ||
| Sub Surface Scattering | ||
| SST | SuperString Theory | |
| SSY | Snoeiharde Sonic Youth | |
| STA | Science, Technology And Society | |
| STD | Sexually-Transmitted Diseases | |
| Something To Do | ||
| State transition diagram | ||
| Straight To Download | ||
| STE | Star Trek ENterprise | |
| STG | Scholary Technology Group | |
| STI | Semantic Technology Institute | |
| STK | Shoot to Kill | |
| STL | Spread Those Legs | |
| Standard Template Library | ||
| Stereo Tesselated Lithography | ||
| STP | Shielded Twisted Pair | |
| STR | Special Theory of Relativity | |
| STS | Sound Transform Systems | |
| Space Transportation System | ||
| STT | Same Time Tomorrow | |
| Singapore Technologies Telemedia | ||
| Skip on Third Tuesday | ||
| Sugiyama Tugawa and Toda | ||
| Surface Tension Transfer | ||
| STV | Star Trek Voyager | |
| Straight To Video | ||
| SUA | Software User Agreement | |
| SUF | Sudden Unexpected Fatherhood | |
| SUM | Specifiek Universitair Magazine | |
| Stand Up Meeting | ||
| SUN | Socialistische Uitgeverij Nijmegen | |
| SUS | Silly User Syndrome | |
| SUV | Sports Utility Vehicle | |
| SVB | Sociale Verzekeringsbank | |
| Stichting Vesting Bourtange | ||
| SVD | Studium Verbum Domini | |
| SVF | Simple Vector Format | |
| SVG | Scalable Vector Graphic | |
| Smoke Vector Graphic | ||
| SVN | Silicon Valley North | |
| Social Venture Network | ||
| SubVersioN | ||
| SVP | S'il Vous Plaît | |
| SVT | Sveriges Television | |
| SWA | Slit Wheel Assembly | |
| SWF | Single White Female | |
| Steirischen Wirtschaftsförderung | ||
| Sud-West Funk | ||
| SWL | Screaming With Laughter | |
| SWM | Single White Male | |
| SWO | Stichting Welzijn voor Ouderen | |
| SWP | Small World Phenomenon | |
| SWT | Shorter Work Time | |
| Standard Widget Toolkit | ||
| SXI | Solar X-ray Imager | |
| SYL | See You Later | |
| Strapping Young Lad | ||
| SYS | See You Soon | |
| Sesli Yanýt Sistemleri | ||
| Shoot Your Shot | ||
| Southwest Youth Symphony | ||
| Stretch-Yawn Syndrome | ||
| Sun Yat-Sen | ||
| SYT | Sweet Young Thing | |
| SZT | Servers Zijn Traag | |
