SAR or Sar may refer to:

Places

  • Sar (river), Galicia, Spain
  • Sar, Bahrain, a residential district
  • Sar, Iran (disambiguation), several places in Iran
  • Sar, Tibet, Tibet Autonomous Region of China
  • Šar Mountains, in southeastern Europe
  • Sark, a Channel Island, IIGA country code
  • Special administrative regions of China (Hong Kong and Macau)
  • Syrian Arab Republic, sometimes abbreviated as SAR, the official name of Syria

Business and finance

  • Parabolic SAR (stop and reverse), a method of technical stock analysis
  • Saudi Arabian riyal, currency code SAR
  • Stock appreciation right, an employee reward

Computing

  • sar (Unix) (system activity report), a Unix/Linux performance report utility
  • Segmentation and reassembly, in data networks
  • Service Archive or SAR, a file format related to JAR
  • Shift Arithmetically Right (SAR), an x86 instruction
  • Storage Aspect Ratio of a digital image

Law enforcement

  • Search and rescue
  • Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting Initiative, US
  • Suspicious activity report, by a financial institution to an authority

Science

Medicine, psychology, and biology

  • SAR supergroup (Stramenopiles, Alveolates, and Rhizarians supergroup), a clade within the eukaryotes
  • Scaffold/matrix attachment region or scaffold-attachment region, DNA sequences
  • Sexual Attitude Reassessment
  • Specific absorption rate, of RF energy by the human body
  • Structure–activity relationship, of biological effect of a molecule
  • Systemic acquired resistance, of a plant to a pathogen

Science and technology

  • Sar (astronomy), 9 years 5 days, a period separating eclipses or half a saros
  • SAR 21, Singapore Assault Rifle 21st century
  • SAR-87 (Sterling SAR-87), 1980s military assault rifle
  • IPCC Second Assessment Report, 1995 report on climate change
  • Semi-automatic rifle
  • Sodium adsorption ratio, an irrigation water quality parameter
  • Spent Acid Regeneration of sulfuric acid
  • Submarine Advanced Reactor program of USS Triton
  • Successive Approximation Register of a successive-approximation ADC
  • Synthetic-aperture radar, imaging radar

Organizations

  • SAR Academy, yeshiva in Riverdale, New York, US
  • SAR High School, the high school of SAR Academy
  • SAR Records, an American record label
  • Scholars at Risk, a network supporting academic freedom
  • School for Advanced Research in anthropology and related fields, Santa Fe, New Mexico, US
  • Sigma Alpha Rho, a high school fraternity, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
  • Society for Artistic Research
  • Sons of the American Revolution, US organisation

Railways

  • Saudi Arabia Railways, national railway company of Saudi Arabia
  • Savage Alberta Railway, Alberta, Canada, reporting mark
  • South African Railways, now part of Transnet Freight Rail
  • South Australian Railways, 1854–1978

Military

  • Sandfontein Artillery Regiment, an artillery regiment of the South African Army
  • State Artillery Regiment, an artillery regiment of the South African Army

Other uses

  • Sar (surname)
  • Sar, an uthra (angel) in Mandaeism
  • Sar language, a Bongo–Bagirmi language of southern Chad
  • Sample of Anonymised Records, based on the UK population census
  • Special administrative region, territorial entity designation
  • Student Aid Report, sent to applicants of U.S. federal financial aid for college
  • Subject access request, in data protection law
  • Super Animal Royale, a 2021 video game developed by Pixile Studios

See also

  • Saar (disambiguation)
  • SARS (disambiguation)