SID
319909
223331365
2008-07-03T16:35:06Z
Swaq
4168244
Per [[WP:DISAMBIG]]
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:''This page is disambiguation for just the acronym '''''SID''''', not the name or term '''''[[Sid]]'''''.''
The [[acronym]] '''SID''' can refer to:
* [[Amilcar Cabral International Airport]], Sal Island, Cape Verde.
* [[Standard Instrument Departure]] at airports, also referred to as “Departure Procedure” (DP)
* [[Security and Intelligence Department]], [[Singapore]] foreign [[intelligence]] service.
* [[Security Identifier]], a unique alphanumeric character string assigned by a [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]] [[Domain controller]].
* [[Sensory Integration Dysfunction]]
* [[Society for Information Display]], a professional society dedicated to the study of the physics and engineering of display devices
* Source Image Distance in Diagnostic Radiography (previously referred to as [[FFD]])
* ''[[Servizio Informazioni Difesa]]'', Italian military secret service from 1965 to 1977 (replaced by the [[SISMI]])
* [[NGOSS Shared Information/Data Model|Shared Information/Data Model]]
* [[Sudden infant death syndrome]]
* [[Sudden Ionospheric Disturbance]]
* [[Sports information director]], a position title similar to PR Director or Press Secretary, usually within University/School Systems athletic departments
* [[Scientific Investigation Division]] of [[LAPD]]
==Fictional uses==
* Space Intruder Detector, an early-warning satellite in the British television series ''[[UFO (TV series)|UFO]]''
* "Abuse of SID", a song by [[Hurt (band)|Hurt]], from their second album ''[[Vol. II (Hurt album)|Vol. II]]''
==Computing and consumer electronics==
'''SID''' often appears as a [[computing]] / [[consumer electronics]] [[three-letter acronym]]:
* [[MOS Technology SID]], the '''''S'''ound '''I'''nterface '''D'''evice'' (built-in sound chip) used in the Commodore CBM-II, Commodore 64 and Commodore 128 home computers
* Security Identifier:
** In modern [[Microsoft Windows]] [[operating system]]s, the [[Security Identifier]] (SID) is a unique alphanumeric character string that identifies each operating system and each user in a network of NT/2000/XP systems
** [[Security-Enhanced Linux|SELinux]]: an opaque reference to a security context
* A '''s'''tory '''id'''entifier which uniquely identifies an article in [[Slash (weblog system)|Slash]]-based sites, such as Slashdot
* [[Oracle database]] users may refer to a SID in at least two different contexts:
** the Oracle '''System Identifier''', which labels a database instance and identifies a running database to the outer world
** a '''session identifier''', used internally to refer to a user database [[session (computer science)|session]]
* [[System Identification Number]] Identifies an Analog, TDMA or CDMA system
* [[NGOSS Shared Information/Data Model]], Definition of NGOSS’s common Information Model [http://www.tmforum.org/browse.asp?catID=1684]
* Seamless Image Database (See [[MrSID]])
* [[Session ID]]
==See also==
* [[Sid]], a given name
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