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Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.85 in modern English
Meaning
name
Initialism of Sarbanes-Oxley Act, officially titled the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002.
American usage
name
Initialism of School of the Americas, a US Army training facility subsequently officially known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation.
American usage
name
Initialism of Society of Actuaries, one of the two main professional societies of actuaries in the United States.
American usage
noun
Initialism of semiconductor optical amplifier (“a device that amplifies an optical signal directly”)
Countable; Uncountable
noun
Initialism of safe operating area (“the voltage, current, etc. with which a device can be expected to operate without self-damage”)
Countable; Uncountable
noun
Initialism of stimulus onset asynchrony (“the time interval between the onset of a first stimulus and the onset of a second stimulus”)
Countable; Uncountable
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