SOA
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Soa or SOA can stand for:
- Safe operating area, the current conditions over which a device can be expected to operate without self-damage
- School of the Americas, a US Army training facility subsequently officially known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation
- Service-oriented architecture, software architecture that defines the use of services to support the requirements of software users
- Search oriented architecture, the use of search engine technology as the main integration component in an information system
- Semiconductor Optical Amplifier, a device that amplifies an optical signal directly
- Skies of Arcadia, a console game for the Sega Dreamcast and Nintendo Gamecube
- Society of Actuaries, one of the two main professional societies of actuaries in the United States
- Society of Ancients, an international society based in the UK
- Start of Authority, in network computing, an SOA record identifies the authoritative name server for a specific DNS zone
- State of Alert, a punk rock group
- State of the art, the highest level of development
- Soldiers of Allah, an Islamic rap group
- Source of Authority, in security policies
- Sarbanes-Oxley Act, officially titled the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002
- Stimulus Onset Asynchrony, the time interval between the onset of a first stimulus and the onset of a second stimulus
- Standard abbreviation for Stordalen railway station in Sweden
- Standard abbreviation for Soinlahti railway station in Finland
- Spring over Axle, referring to a 4x4 suspension where the leaf spring is placed on top of the axle
- Siege of Avalon, a 2000 computer role-playing game