Soa or SOA can stand for:

• School of the Americas, a US Army training facility subsequently officially known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation
• School of the Arts, a common name for fine arts schools
• Secondary Organic Aerosol, a kind of atmospheric aerosols formed from reactions of organic compounds with oxidants.
• Search oriented architecture, the use of search engine technology as the main integration component in an information system
• Service-oriented architecture, a computer systems architectural style for creating and using business processes, packaged as services
• Society of Ancients, an international society based in the UK
• Start of Authority, a record type in the Domain Name System.
• State of the art, the highest level of development
• Stimulus Onset Asynchrony, the time interval between the onset of a first stimulus and the onset of a second stimulus
• Super Output Area, a geographical unit in the United Kingdom used mainly for statistical analysis

Official seal of the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation } The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHISC or WHINSEC), formerly the School of the Americas (SOA; Spanish: Escuela de las Américas), is a United States Department of Defense facility at Fort Benning in Columbus, Georgia. ... School of the Arts is the name of several schools (usually high schools) that are devoted to the fine arts, including: Brooklyn High School of the Arts, Brooklyn, New York Coronado School of the Arts, Coronado, California Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, Los Angeles, California Orange County... The use of search engine technology as the main integration component in an information system. ... Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a computer systems architectural style for creating and using business processes, packaged as services, throughout their lifecycle. ... The Society of Ancients or SOA is a UK based, International society that promotes interest in Ancient & Medieval history and wargaming. ... The Domain Name System (DNS) associates various sorts of information with domain names; most importantly, it serves as the phone book for the Internet by translating human-readable computer hostnames, e. ... The state of the art is the highest level of development, as of a device, technique, or scientific field, achieved at a particular time. ... The Office for National Statistics coding system is a hierarchical code used in the United Kingdom for tabulating census and other statistical data. ...

in 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
• Statement of Affairs, an enumeration of financial situation prepared typically by a company or individual considering insolvency or bankruptcy

Before the signing ceremony of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, President George Bush meets with Senator Paul Sarbanes, Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao and other dignitaries in the Blue Room at the White House on July 30, 2002. ... The Society of Actuaries is a professional society of actuaries in the United States. ...

in entertainment

• Siege of Avalon, a 2000 computer role-playing game
• Skies of Arcadia, a console game for the Sega Dreamcast and Nintendo Gamecube
• Soldiers of Allah, an Islamic rap group
• State of Alert, a punk rock group

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