SOA

1. USabbreviationinitialismInitialism of Sarbanes-Oxley Act, officially titled the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002.
2. USabbreviationinitialismInitialism of School of the Americas, a US Army training facility subsequently officially known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation.
3. USabbreviationinitialismInitialism of Society of Actuaries, one of the two main professional societies of actuaries in the United States.
4. UKabbreviationinitialismInitialism of Society of Ancients, an international society based in the UK.

plural SOAs

1. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of state of the art.
2. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablebusinessInitialism of semiconductor optical amplifier (“a device that amplifies an optical signal directly”)
3. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablebusinessInitialism of safe operating area (“the voltage, current, etc. with which a device can be expected to operate without self-damage”)
4. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablehuman sciencesInitialism of stimulus onset asynchrony (“the time interval between the onset of a first stimulus and the onset of a second stimulus”)
5. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablearchitectureInitialism of search-oriented architecture.
6. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablearchitectureInitialism of service-oriented architecture.
7. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablenetworkscomputingInitialism of start of authority, a record that identifies the authoritative name server for a specific DNS database segment.
8. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableaccountingInitialism of statement of account.
9. UKabbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablecensusInitialism of super output area.
10. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of sudden-onset aggression

1. An island of Argyll and Bute, Scotland, United Kingdom, any of three islands so named.

1. abbreviationinitialismcomputingInitialism of structure of arrays.

1. UKabbreviationinitialismInitialism of Society of Authors, a United Kingdom trade union.

   The SoA wants Amazon to clearly label products as AI-generated and allow readers to filter out AI titles.

   2023 September 30, James Tapper, “Authors shocked to find AI ripoffs of their books being sold on Amazon”, in The Observer, →ISSN