SOA

Proper Noun

• Sarbanes-Oxley Act, officially titled the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002
• School of the Americas, a US Army training facility subsequently officially known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation
• 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

Noun

• state of the art
• Semiconductor optical amplifier, a device that amplifies an optical signal directly.
• Safe operating area, the current conditions over which a device can be expected to operate without self-damage.
• Stimulus Onset Asynchrony, the time interval between the onset of a first stimulus and the onset of a second stimulus.
• Initialism of search-oriented architecture
• Initialism of service-oriented architecture
• Start of Authority, a record that identifies the authoritative Name Server for a specific DNS database segment