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Glossary : S
A to Z of commonly used abbreviations and acronyms
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- .svg or SVG : Scalable Vector Graphics file format
- S&IF : Science and Innovation Framework
- S/MIME : Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
- S5 : Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System
- SA : Soil Association
- SAC : Special Area of Conservation
- SACL : System Access Control List
- SAFE : Security Action For the Elderly / Adur SAFE Scheme
- SAFEE : Security of Aircraft in the Future European Environment
- SAHA : Shoreham Airport Historical Association
- SAM : Scheduled Ancient Monument
- SAM : Software Asset Management Programme
- SAML : Security Assertion Mark-up Language
- SAN : Storage Area Network
- SAON : Secondary Addressable Object Name (compare : PAON)
- SAP : Standard Assessment Procedure
- SAQSG : Sussex Air Quality Steering Group
- SAR : Self Assessment Report
- SARA : Sub-keV Atom Reflecting Analyser
- SAS : Secure Accommodation Scheme
- SASBAH : Sussex Association for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus
- SATs : Standard Attainment Tests
- SBA : Single Business Account
- SBRR : Small Business Rate Relief
- SBS : Small Business Service
- SCA : Supplementary Credit Approval
- SCI : Safer Communities Initiative
- SCI : Statement of Community Involvement
- SCOPAC : Standing Conference on Problems Associated with the Coastline
- SCP : School Crossing Patrol
- Screen resolutions - see below
- SCSI : Small Computer System Interface (pronounced 'scuzzy' )
- SCUK : Sports Coach UK
- SDA : Sex Discrimination Act 1975
- SDA : Sussex Deaf Association
- SDEF : Scottish Disability Equality Forum
- SDH : Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
- SDI : Selective Dissemination of Information
- SDI : Single Document Interface
- SDK : Software Development Kit
- SDLT : Stamp duty Land Tax
- SDMHA : Shoreham and District Mental Health Association
- SDO : Sports Development Officer
- SDSL : Symmetrical Digital Subscriber Line
- SEA : Strategic Environmental Assessment (see also EIA)
- SEaLEGS : South East London e-Government Services
- SECE : South East Centre of Excellence
- SEEDA : South East England Development Agency (the RDA for the south east)
- SEEL : Supporting Excellence in E-Learning
- SEERA : South East England Regional Assembly
- SEFEG : South East Forum for Electronic Government
- SEFVA : South East Film and Video Archive
- Self-Service : The ability of customers to progress their requirement on the internet, either finding out information, completing an application form, looking up their account etc.
- SEM : Search Engine Marketing
- SEM : Senior Executives' Meeting
- SEMS : Simultaneous Executive Meetings
- SEMLAC : South East Museums Libraries and Archives Council
- SEN : Special Educational Needs
- SEO : Search Engine Optimisers / search engine optimisation
- SEP field : Somebody Else's Problem field. (An SEP Field is used to hide something in plain sight. This phenomenon works on the principle that the human brain will filter out impossible objects and situations so as to preserve the sanity of the owner of the brain. When an impossible object or situation is encountered the brain decides that it is somebody else's problem and promptly deletes it from its perception of reality. For more information see the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams).
- SEPC : South Eastern Provincial Council
- SERPLAN : The London and South East Regional Planning Conference
- SERPs : Search Engine Results Pages
- SERPs : State Earnings Related Pension
- SETI : Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence
- SFRA : Strategic Flood Risk Assessment
- SGC : Server Gated Cryptography
- SGML : Standard(ised) Generalised Mark-up Language
- SHA : Secure Hash Algorithm
- SHA-1 : Secure Hash Algorithm 1
- SHAW : Stress and Health at Work Study
- SHW : Street and highway works
- SI : Systems Integrator
- SIAG : Socitm Information Age Group (see also SOCITM below)
- SIAS : Sussex Industrial Archaeology Society
- SIC : UK Standard Industrial Classification
- SICT : Social inclusion through ICT
- SID : Security ID
- SIG : Special Interest Group
- SINC : Site of Importance for Nature Conservation
- SLA : Service Level Agreement(s)
- SLD : Severe Learning Difficulties
- SLEPT : Strategic, Legislation, Economic, Political, Technology (see also PEST and SWOT below)
- SLIP : Serial Line Internet Protocol
- SLO : Statistics Liaison Officer
- SLR : Single lens reflex (camera)
- SLSC : Sussex Learning and Skills Council
- SMA : Sensitive Marine Area
- sMAPI : Simple Mail API (Application Programme Interface)
- SMART : Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Resourced and Timely
- SME : Small / Medium Sized Enterprise
- SMEs : Small and Medium Enterprises
- SMG : Senior Management Group
- SMIF : Secondary Market Infrastructure Fund
- SMIL : Synchronised Multimedia Integration Language
- SMOG : Simple Measure of Gobbledegook
- SMP : Shoreline Management Plan
- SMR : Sites and Monuments Register
- SMR : Standardised Mortality Ratio
- SMS : Secure Message Service / Short Message Service / Smart Message Service
- SMSC : Short Message Service Centre
- SMT : Strategic Management Team
- SMTP : Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
- SMTP/MIME : Simple Message Transfer Protocol / Multipurpose Internet Mail
- SN&N : Street Naming and Numbering
- SNCI : Site of Nature Conservation Interest
- SNEN : Single Non-Emergency Number (101) (single non-emergency telephone number project http://snen.homeoffice.gov.uk/ http://www.101.gov.uk/ )
- SNMP : Simple Network Management Protocol
- SNP : Scottish National Party
- SO : Shared Ownership
- SOA or SOA's : Service Oriented Architecture(s)
- SOAP : Simple Object Access Protocol
- SOCAG : Sydney Organisation Committee for the Olympic Games
- SOCITM : The Society of IT (Information Technology) Management
- SOCO : Scene of Crime Officer
- SoCoMMS : South Coast Multi Modal Study
- SOCPO : Society of Chief Personnel Officer
- SODDI : Some Other Dude Did It
- SOLACE : Society of Local Authority Chief Executives and Senior Managers
- SOPO : Society of Purchasing Officers in Local Government
- SOSMI : Surveillance of Occupational Stress and Mental Illness
- SPA : Special Protection Area
- SPAB : Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (www.spab.org.uk)
- SPAM : Statutory Paid Advisors Meeting
- SPC : Southern Provincial Council
- SPD : Supplementary Planning Document
- SPF : Sender Policy Framework
- SPG : Supplementary Planning Guidance
- SPID : Service Profile Identifier
- SPLA : Southern Private Landlords Association
- SPOC : Single Point of Contact
- SRAJ : Solar Alpha Rotary Joint
- SRB : Single Regeneration Budget
- SRCC : Sussex Rural Community Council
- SRE : Supporting the rural economy
- SRM : Storage Resource Management
- SSA : Standard Spending Assessment
- SSA : Supplementary Spending Assessment
- SSADM : Structured Systems Analysis and Design Methodology
- SSCP : Sussex Safety Camera Partnership
- SSDA : Sector Skills Development Agency
- SSDO : Sport Specific Development Officer
- SSE : Sign Supported English
- SSG : Small Shops Group
- SSHA : Society of Sexual Health Advisers
- SSI : Server Side Includes
- SSI : Social Services Inspectorate
- SSL : Secure Sockets Layer
- SSO : Single Sign on
- SSP : Steel Sheet Pile
- SSR : Small-Screen Rendering
- SSSI : Site of Special Scientific Interest
- SSU : Strategic Support Unit
- SSZ : Self service zone
- STB : set top boxes
- STD : Sexually Transmitted Disease
- STD : Standards Committee
- STD : Subscriber Trunk Dialling
- STI : Sexually Transmitted Infection
- STScI : Space Telescope Science Institute
- STW : Sewage Treatment Works
- SUN : Strategic Users Network
- SuperWASP : Super Wide Angle Search for Planets
- SVCC : SignVideo Call Centre
- SVG : Scalable Vector Graphics
- SWAMM : Semantic Web Annotations for Multimedia
- SWAN : Syndromes Without a Name
- SWARMS : South West Area Route Management Strategy
- SWEEPS : Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search
- SWERDA : South West England Regional Development Agency
- SWI : Self-reported Work-related Illness
- SWIG : Sussex Warning & Informing Group
- SWORD : Surveillance of Work-related and Occupational Respiratory Disease
- SWOT : Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT analysis - see also PEST analysis and SLEPT above)
- SWS : Semantic Web Services
- SXSW : South by Southwest
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Screen resolutions :
To prevent 'normal people' from understanding screen size abbreviations a set of specifications for different monitor resolutions was devised. Here are the usual screen sizes, in pixels, for each of these specifications :
Normal (4x3 or 5x4) screen aspect ratio
- CGA : 320x200 : Color Graphics Adaptor : 16/10
- EGA : 640x350 : Enhanced Graphics Adaptor : 1.83
- VGA : 640x480 :Video Graphics Array : 4/3
- SVGA : 800x600 : Super VGA : 4/3
- XGA : 1024x768 : Extended Graphics Array : 4/3
- SXGA : 1280x1024 : Super XGA : 5/4
- SXGA+ : 1400x1050 : Super XGA+ : 4/3
- UXGA : 1600x1200 : Ultra XGA : 4/3
- QXGA : 2048x1536 : Quad XGA : 4/3
- QSXGA : 2560x2048 : Quad SXGA : 5/4
- QUXGA : 3200x2400 : Quad Ultra XGA : 4/3
- HSXGA : 5120x4096 : Hex Super XGA : 5/4
- HUXGA : 6400x4800 : Hex Ultra XGA : 4/3
Wide (16x9 or 16x10) screen aspect ratio
- WVGA : 852x480 or 858x484 : Wide VGA : 16/9
- WXGA : 1366x768 : Wide XGA : 16/9
- WSXGA : 1600x1024 : Wide Super XGA : 1.56
- WSXGA+ : 1680x1050 : Wide Super XGA+ : 16/10
- WUXGA : 1920x1200 : Wide Ultra XGA : 16/10
- WQXGA : 2560x1600 : Wide Quad XGA : 16/10
- WQSXGA : 3200x2048 : Wide Quad Super XGA : 1.56
- WQUXGA : 3840x2400 : Wide Quad Ultra XGA : 16/10
- WHSXGA : 6400x4096 : Wide Hex Super XGA : 1.56
- WHUXGA : 7680x4800 : Wide Hex Ultra XGA : 16/10
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