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Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers
The Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) is an American nonprofit supporting Hispanic students and professionals in STEM, founded in Los Angeles in 1974 by engineer Rodrigo Garcia.
Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers
The Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) is the apex national body representing India's major vehicle and engine manufacturers, headquartered at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.
Society of Manufacturing Engineers
SME, legally the Society of Manufacturing Engineers until 2013, is a North American nonprofit professional association for manufacturing, founded in 1932 in Detroit and now headquartered in Southfield, Michigan.
Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers
The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME) is an international professional society serving the maritime and offshore industries, founded in 1893 and based in Alexandria, Virginia.
Society of Petroleum Engineers
The Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), founded in 1957, is a not-for-profit professional association for oil and gas engineers and scientists, headquartered in Richardson, Texas.
Society of Plastics Engineers
The Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE), founded in 1942, is an international professional society for plastics scientists and engineers, publishing four peer-reviewed journals and holding the annual ANTEC conference.
Society of the Snow
Society of the Snow is a 2023 Spanish-language survival drama directed by J. A. Bayona, telling the story of the 1972 Andes plane crash from the survivors' view.
Society of Women Engineers
The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) is an American nonprofit educational service organization founded in 1950 to support women in engineering through advocacy, scholarships, and professional development.
Socionext
Socionext (株式会社ソシオネクスト) is a Japanese fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Yokohama that designs custom SoCs, formed in 2015 by combining the system LSI businesses of Fujitsu and Panasonic.
Socket A
Socket A, also called Socket 462, is AMD's CPU socket introduced in June 2000 for the Athlon and Duron, later carrying the Athlon XP and Sempron.
Socket AM3
Socket AM3 is a CPU socket introduced by AMD in February 2009 for its 45 nm Phenom II desktop processors, supporting both DDR2 and DDR3 memory.
Socket AM3+
Socket AM3+, also designated Socket AM3b, is AMD's zero insertion force desktop processor socket for FX-series CPUs, replacing Socket AM3 and launching with the FX-8150 in October 2011.
Socket AM4
Socket AM4, also known as AMD AM4, is a CPU socket introduced by AMD in 2016 for mainstream desktop Ryzen processors, known for its exceptional longevity as AMD's entry-level platform well past its successor Socket AM5.
Socket AM5
Socket AM5 (LGA 1718) is AMD's current desktop CPU socket, introduced in September 2022 with the Ryzen 7000 Series, its first mainstream LGA design with pins in the motherboard, and support for Ryzen CPUs through 2029.
SocketCAN
SocketCAN is the implementation of Controller Area Network (CAN) protocols in the Linux kernel, exposing CAN buses to user space via the Berkeley socket API; it has been mainline since Linux 2.6.25 in 2008.
SOCKS
SOCKS, also known as a SOCKS proxy, is a session-layer proxy protocol, published in 1992, that relays TCP and UDP traffic without interpreting it; version 5 is defined in RFC 1928.
Sod house
The sod house, known on the frontier as a "soddy," was a home built from blocks of prairie grass and earth, used by Great Plains homesteaders where timber was scarce.
Soda Core
Soda Core (SodaCL) is an open-source Python library and CLI by Soda of Brussels for data quality testing and, since v4 (January 2026, Elastic License 2.0), data contracts, running YAML-defined checks against 18+ sources including Snowflake, Databricks, and BigQuery.
Soda fountain
A soda fountain is a dispensing apparatus that mixes flavored syrup, carbon dioxide, and chilled water to serve carbonated soft drinks, historically in drugstores and now common in quick-service restaurants.
Soda pulping
Soda pulping is the oldest chemical pulping process, cooking fiber in sodium hydroxide alone to dissolve lignin, and it remains in commercial use mainly for nonwood fibers such as straw and bagasse.
Soda–lime glass
Soda–lime glass, more fully soda–lime–silica glass, is the most common commercial glass, made from sand, soda, and lime and used for windows, bottles, and jars.
SODAR
SODAR (sound detection and ranging), also called an acoustic sounder, is a ground-based remote sensing instrument that profiles wind and turbulence in the lower atmosphere, first described in 1969.
Sodegaura LNG Terminal
Sodegaura LNG Terminal (袖ヶ浦工場), operated by Tokyo Gas and TEPCO, is an LNG import terminal in Sodegaura, Chiba, on Tokyo Bay; opened in 1973, it was Japan's first LNG-dedicated plant.
Sodegaura thermal power station
Sodegaura thermal power station (袖ケ浦火力発電所) is an LNG-fired power station operated by JERA in Sodegaura, Chiba Prefecture, Japan; its four 1970s units total 3,600 MW and will be replaced by combined cycle units.
Sodeshi Shimizu LNG Terminal
The Sodeshi Shimizu LNG Terminal is a liquefied natural gas import terminal at Shimizu Port in Shizuoka City, Japan, operated by Shimizu LNG, a Shizuoka Gas group company.
Sodium aluminium hydride
Sodium aluminum hydride, also called sodium alanate, is a complex metal hydride whose reversible hydrogen release after titanium doping made it widely studied for hydrogen storage.
Sodium beta-alumina
Sodium beta-alumina is a family of layered ceramics in which sodium ions move rapidly through conduction planes, serving as the solid electrolyte in sodium-sulfur and ZEBRA batteries.
Sodium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide
Sodium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide, abbreviated NaFSI, is the sodium analog of LiFSI, a conducting salt in sodium-ion and sodium-metal battery electrolytes prized for high solubility and ionic conductivity.
Sodium bismuth titanate
Sodium bismuth titanate (Na₀.₅Bi₀.₅TiO₃, abbreviated NBT or BNT) is a lead-free perovskite ferroelectric, first reported in the 1960s, now widely studied as a lead-free alternative to PZT in piezoelectric devices.
Sodium hexafluorophosphate
Sodium hexafluorophosphate (NaPF6) is an inorganic sodium salt of the hexafluorophosphate anion and the benchmark electrolyte salt for sodium-ion batteries, though it hydrolyzes with moisture to form hydrofluoric acid.