SME may refer to:

Economics

* Small and medium-sized enterprises * Socialist market economy, an economic system of China

Organizations

Music

* SME Limited, UK audio turntable manufacturer * Sony Music Entertainment, US * Spontaneous Music Ensemble, UK, mid-1960s * Stone Music Entertainment, South Korea

Other organizations

SME (society) SME (previously the Society of Manufacturing Engineers) is a non-profit student and professional association for educating and advancing the manufacturing industry in North America. History SME was founded in January 1932 at the height of the ...

, formerly Society of Manufacturing Engineers *

Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME) is a professional association for mining and metallurgy, with over 145,000 members. It was founded in 1871 by 22 mining engineers in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Un ...

* Sun Microelectronics, a business unit of

Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Sun for short) was an American technology company that sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services and created the Java programming language, the Solaris operating system, ZFS, the ...

Science and technology

Computing

* Secure Memory Encryption, an AMD technology *

Structure mapping engine In artificial intelligence and cognitive science, the structure mapping engine (SME) is an implementation in software of an algorithm for analogical matching based on the psychological theory of Dedre Gentner. The basis of Gentner's structure-mapp ...

, in artificial intelligence and cognitive science * SIGNAL Meta under Eclipse, in the SIGNAL programming language

Other uses in science and technology

Solar Mesosphere Explorer The Solar Mesosphere Explorer (also known as Explorer 64) was a NASA spacecraft to investigate the processes that create and destroy ozone in Earth's upper of the atmosphere of Earth. The mesosphere is a layer of the atmosphere extending from ...

, an Earth observation satellite *

Standard-Model Extension Standard-Model Extension (SME) is an effective field theory that contains the Standard Model, general relativity, and all possible operators that break Lorentz symmetry. Violations of this fundamental symmetry can be studied within this general fr ...

, in quantum field theory *

Subsequent memory effect Recall in memory refers to the mental process of retrieval of information from the past. Along with encoding and storage, it is one of the three core processes of memory. There are three main types of recall: free recall, cued recall and serial r ...

, in cognitive psychology * Surface-mount equipment, for electronic assembly

Other uses

* ''SME'' (newspaper), a Slovak daily *

Subject-matter expert A subject-matter expert (SME) is a person who has authority, accumulated great knowledge in a particular field or topic and this level of knowledge is demonstrated by the person's degree, licensure, and/or through years of professional experience ...

, an authority in a particular area or topic *

Lake Cumberland Regional Airport Lake Cumberland Regional Airport is a public use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) south of the central business district of Somerset, Kentucky, Somerset, a city in Pulaski County, Kentucky, Pulaski County, Kentucky, United States. ...

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