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SOA on Twitter or Facebook most likely stands for the TV show Sons of Anarchy.
SOA in text may also mean the following:
Computers, Science, engineering and information technology
- Service-oriented architecture, type of software architecture for creating and using business processes, packaged as services
- Search oriented architecture, the use of search engine technology as the main integration component in an information system
- Semiconductor optical amplifier, optical amplifiers which use a semiconductor to provide the gain medium
- Safe operating area, the voltage and current conditions for a semiconductor to work reliably
- Start of Authority, an important record type in the Domain Name System
- Stimulus-Onset Asynchrony, a measure used in experimental psychology that denotes the amount of time between the beginning of one stimulus and the beginning of the next stimulus
- Shaking Optimization Algorithm, an optimization algorithm that belongs to the Evolutionary Computations (EC) and emulate the common shaking process
Organizations, societies and institutes
- School of the Americas, former name for the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHISC or WHINSEC), a U.S. Army training facility at Fort Benning, Georgia
- School of the Arts (disambiguation)
- Scottish Orienteering Association, association for orienteering in Scotland
- Society of Ancients, UK-based, non-profit organization that promotes interest in Ancient & Medieval history and wargaming
- Special Operations Australia, intelligence and special operations agency formed in 1942, currently known as the Services Reconnaissance Department
- State Oceanic Administration, Chinese administrative agency, subordinate to the Ministry of Land and Resources
- Special Operations Association, U.S. special forces A.K.A. "Green Berets".
Other
- State Oceanic Administration of China
- State of the art, the highest level of development
Accounting and business
- Sarbanes-Oxley Act, officially titled the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002
- Society of Actuaries, one of the two main professional societies of actuaries in the United States
Entertainment
Music groups
- Soldiers of Allah, Muslim rap group from Los Angeles, California
- Sons of Azrael, deathcore band from Buffalo, New York, formed in 2004
- State of Alert, hardcore punk group formed in Washington, D.C. in 1980, and disbanded in 1981
Television
- Sons of Anarchy, American television drama series that premiered in 2008
Video games
- Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn, 2nd computer role-playing game in the Baldur's Gate series from 2000
- Shards of Alara, 2008 expansion set from the trading card game Magic: The Gathering
- Siege of Avalon, 2000 computer role-playing game created by Digital Tome
- Skies of Arcadia, console role-playing game developed by Overworks for the Dreamcast and published by Sega in 2000
- The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar, 2007 massively multiplayer online role-playing game set in Tolkien's Middle-earth
- Soldiers of Anarchy, squad-based real-time tactics computer game created by Silver Style Entertainment in 2002
Geography
- Super Output Area, geographical region of the United Kingdom used mainly for statistical analysis
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