Sol - in Science and Technology

In Science and Technology

  • Sol, the Latin name of the main sequence star of the synonymous Sol System, called the Sun in English
    • Typically used in science fiction and other contexts where the author wants to distinguish our particular star or the Solar System from "a sun" or "a planetary system"
  • Sol (colloid), a type of suspension
  • sol (format), a file format for presenting solutions of mathematical programming problems
  • Sol geometry, a three-dimensional Riemannian manifold
  • Sol, a Martian day
    • Sol, a solar day as used in timekeeping on Mars
  • Sol-20, a computer produced by company Processor Technology
  • Sol., abbreviation for solution
Acronyms
  • Secure Operations Language
  • Serial over LAN
  • Sleep onset latency
  • Simple Object Language, the ancestor of Lua programming language
People
  • Daniel Solander or Sol. (1733–1782), Swedish botanical author

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