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The acronym '''STAR''' may refer to:
'''Organizations''':
* [[Special Tasks and Rescue]] or Special Tactics and Response, synonyms for SWAT
** [[Special Tactics and Rescue (Singapore)]], of the Singapore Police Force
* [[STAR (interbank network)]], an interbank network
* [[Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America#STAR Events|STAR Events]], a program of the Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America organization
* [[STAR Study Association RSM Erasmus University]], Europe's largest student association
* [[Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries]], a transgender activist organization founded in 1970
* [[Supporters Trust At Reading]], the Reading Football Club's supporters' trust
* [[Synagogues: Transformation And Renewal]], an organization that helps synagogues deepen their connection within the Jewish community
* [[STAR (conference)]], conferences about software testing
* [[Society for Telescopy, Astronomy, and Radio]], a non-profit astronomy club in New Jersey
* [[Star (strategies + architecture)]], an architecture office in the Netherlands
* [[Standards for Technology in Automotive Retail]], a non-profit automotive initiative <!--[http://www.starstandard.org/ Standards for Technology in Automotive Retail]-->
''Fictional organizations:''
* [[S.T.A.R. Labs]], a fictional research organization in the DC Comics universe
* [[S.T.A.R.S. (Resident Evil)]]; Special Tactics And Rescue Service, a fictional task force in the ''Resident Evil'' video game franchise
In '''technology''':
* [[STAR detector]], the Solenoidal Tracker At RHIC one of the major experimental setup at the [[Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider]] located at the [[Brookhaven National Laboratory]]
* [[STAR Bus]], a satellite platform manufactured by Orbital Sciences Corporation
* [[Steroidogenic acute regulatory protein]] a transport protein that regulates cholesterol transfer within the mitochondria
* [[Self-Defining Text Archive and Retrieval]], a computer file format <!--http://ugo.crl.nitech.ac.jp/~ddb/CIF/skunkworks.cgi/star/spec/index.html-->
* [[Shock Trauma and Rescue]], or Shock Trauma Air Rescue, a synonym for air ambulance
* [[Source tree adaptive routing]] protocol, a method of organizing wireless mesh networks
'''Standardized tests''':
* [[Standardized Testing and Reporting]] (STaR), a measure of school performance in California
* [[STAR (software)]], periodic assessments of reading (STAR Reading), early literacy (STAR Early Literacy, SEL), and mathematical (STAR Math) skills created by Renaissance Learning, Inc.
* [[Supplementary Tests of Achievement in Reading]], published by the New Zealand Council for Educational Research
'''Other uses''':
* [[Sekolah Tuanku Abdul Rahman]], a secondary school in Malaysia
* [[Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race]], also known as the ''OSTAR''
* [[Situation, Task, Action, Result]], an interview technique
* [[SMK Tengku Ampuan Rahimah]], a secondary school in Klang, Malaysia
* [[Standard Terminal Arrival Route]], the route that planes follow under instrument flight rules when they approach an airport
* [[Steroidogenic acute regulatory protein]], known as ''StAR''
* [[STAR TV (Asia)]], Asian television network owned by News Corporation
* [[Southern Tagalog Arterial Road]], a Philippine highway
* [[Secondary Tertiary Alignment Resource]], a program in New Zealand for secondary school students to participate in courses outside of school
* [http://www.standrewsradio.com St Andrews Radio], an internet radio station serving St Andrews in Scotland
==See also==
*[[Star (disambiguation)]]
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