Sol or SOL may refer to:

Astronomy

* The

Sun The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is a nearly perfect ball of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions in its core. The Sun radiates this energy mainly as light, ultraviolet, and infrared radi ...

Currency

SOL Project The SOL Project is an innovative France, French complementary currency designed to promote a "solidarity economy". The project is being financed by the European Commission and pilot tested in Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Île-de-France (region), Île-de-Fra ...

, a currency project in France *

French sol The sol, later called a sou, is the name of a number of different coins, for accounting or payment, dating from Antiquity to today. The name is derived from the solidus. Its longevity of use anchored it in many expressions of the French language. ...

, or sou *

Argentine sol The sol was a currency unit issued in Argentina. It was equal to and circulated alongside the real, with 16 soles = 1 ''escudo''. Coins Silver coins were issued in denominations of ½, 1, 2, 4 and 8 soles between 1815 and 1832. Modern obs ...

Bolivian sol The sol was the currency of Bolivia between 1827 and 1864. There were no subdivisions of the sol but 16 soles were equal to 1 scudo. The sol replaced the Spanish colonial real The silver real ( es, real de plata) was the currency of the Spani ...

, the currency of Bolivia from 1827 to 1864 *

Peruvian sol The sol (; plural: soles; currency sign: S/) is the currency of Peru; it is subdivided into 100 ''céntimos'' ("cents"). The ISO 4217 currency code is PEN. The sol replaced the Peruvian inti in 1991 and the name is a return to that of Peru's hi ...

, introduced in 1991 *

Peruvian sol (1863–1985) The sol, later sol de oro (English: gold sol), was the currency of Peru between 1863 and 1985. It had the ISO 4217 currency code PES. It was subdivided into 10 ''dineros'' or 100 ''centavos''. It also had two different superunits over its circul ...

Solana (blockchain platform) Solana is a public blockchain platform with smart contract functionality. Its native cryptocurrency is SOL. History Solana was proposed in a white paper Anatoly Yakovenko published in November 2017. This paper described a technique called "pro ...

(SOL), a cryptocurrency

Entertainment, arts and media

Music

G (musical note) Sol, so, or G is the fifth note of the fixed-do solfège starting on C. It is the fifth note and the eighth semitone of the solfège. As such it is the dominant, a perfect fifth above C or perfect fourth below C. When calculated in equal temp ...

or sol, a note of the solfege music scale *

G major G major (or the key of G) is a major scale based on G, with the pitches G, A, B, C, D, E, and F. Its key signature has one sharp. Its relative minor is E minor and its parallel minor is G minor. The G major scale is: Notable compositi ...

or sol, a musical key *

Sol (band) Sol was a Canadian indie rock band in the 1990s. From Moncton, New Brunswick, the band consisted of singer and bassist Stacy Ricker, guitarist Robin Anne Ettles and drummer Chris Mersereau.''Sol'' (album), an album by electronic musician Eskmo * ''Sol'', an album by Ougenweide * ''Shit Out of Luck'', a 1996 album by

The Lillingtons The Lillingtons were a pop-punk band formed in 1995 in Newcastle, Wyoming. The band is composed of its original members, vocalist and lead guitarist Kody Templeman, drummer Tim O’Hara, bassist Cory Laurence, and later added rhythm guitarist Al ...

Gaming

* ''SOL'', or ''

The Shadows of Luclin Twenty-nine full expansions for the MMORPG ''EverQuest'' have been released. Expansions are purchased separately from the original game and they provide additional content. For example: raising the maximum character level, adding new races, cla ...

'', an expansion to ''Everquest'' computer game *

Sol Badguy is a fictional character in Arc System Works' ''Guilty Gear'' video game series. He first appeared in the 1998 video game ''Guilty Gear'', as the main character and namesake. In the series, he is a bounty hunter who has dedicated his life to the ...

, a character in the ''Guilty Gear'' video games * ''Sol Squadron'', an enemy squadron in the video game Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown

Newspapers

* ''Sol'' (newspaper), a weekly newspaper published in Portugal * ''soL'' (newspaper), a daily left-leaning newspaper published in Turkey

Other uses in arts and entertainment

* Sol (comedian), a creation of Marc Favreau * ''Sol'' (film), a 2014 Canadian documentary * Sol, a cat in ''Warriors'' (novel series)

Mythology

Sol (Roman mythology) Sol is the personification of the Sun and a god in ancient Roman religion. It was long thought that Rome actually had two different, consecutive sun gods: The first, Sol Indiges ( la, the deified sun), was thought to have been unimportant, disa ...

, a Roman sun god *

Sól (Germanic mythology) Sól (Old Norse: , "Sun")Orchard (1997:152). or Sunna (Old High German, and existing as an Old Norse and Icelandic synonym: see Wiktionary sunna, "Sun") is the Sun personified in Germanic mythology. One of the two Old High German Merseburg Inca ...

, a Germanic sun goddess

People

Sol (given name) Sol is a given name, usually a form of "Solomon". Notable people with the name include: * Sol Aragones (born 1977), Filipina broadcast journalist and politician * Sol Bloom (1870–1949), member of the U.S. House of Representatives and entertainmen ...

, a given name *

Sol (Korean surname) Seol (also spelled as Sul or Sol) is a Korean family name, spelled 설 in hangul and 薛 or 偰 in hanja. People who have this name include * Seol Sa (Won Hyo) (617 – 686), Silla Dynasty monk * Seol Chong (650 – 730), Silla Dynasty scholar ...

Sol. Daniel Carlsson Solander or Daniel Charles Solander (19 February 1733 – 13 May 1782) was a Sweden, Swedish naturalist and an Apostles of Linnaeus, apostle of Carl Linnaeus. Solander was the first university-educated scientist to set foot on ...

, author citation (botany) for Daniel Solander (1733–1782), Swedish botanical author *

Sol (musician) Sol Alexander Rosenberg (born December 7, 1988), better known as Sol or Solzilla, is an American hip hop artist. In 2012, he released his second studio album ''Yours Truly'', which received critical acclaim and rose to number one on the iTunes U. ...

, hip hop performer Sol Moravia-Rosenberg * S.O.L., or

Oliver Lieb Oliver Lieb (born 1969 in Frankfurt, West Germany) is a German electronic music producer and DJ. Lieb is known to have more than a dozen aliases with over 200 productions and remixes in various electronic genres such as trance, house, and tech ...

(born 1969), German electronic music producer and DJ *

Taeyang Dong Young-bae (; born May 18, 1988), better known by his stage names Taeyang (meaning "sun" in Korean) and SOL (when performing in Japan), is a South Korean singer, songwriter and dancer. After appearing in Jinusean's music video "A-yo", Taey ...

or SOL (born 1988), Korean singer

Science and technology

* Sol, the Latin name for the

Computing

Secure Operations Language The Secure Operations Language (SOL) was developed jointly by the United States Naval Research Laboratory and Utah State University in the United States. SOL is a domain-specific synchronous programming language for developing distributed appli ...

Serial over LAN Serial over LAN (SOL) is a mechanism that enables the input and output of the serial port of a managed system to be redirected over IP. Details On some managed systems, notably blade server systems, the serial ports on the managed computers are ...

* Simple Object Language, the ancestor of

Lua programming language Lua ( ; from meaning ''moon'') is a lightweight, high-level, multi-paradigm programming language designed primarily for embedded use in applications. Lua is cross-platform, since the interpreter of compiled bytecode is written in ANSI C, an ...

sol (format) sol is a file format for representing solutions of mathematical programming problems. It is often used in conjunction with the nl format to return solutions from the solvers. Initially this format has been invented for connecting solvers to ...

, a file format for presenting solutions of mathematical programming problems *

Sol-20 The Sol-20 was the first fully assembled microcomputer with a built-in keyboard and television output, what would later be known as a home computer. The design was a combination of an Intel 8080-based motherboard, a VDM-1 graphics card, the 3P+S ...

, a computer produced by company Processor Technology * .sol, a

local shared object A local shared object (LSO), commonly called a Flash cookie (due to its similarity with an HTTP cookie), is a piece of data that websites that use Adobe Flash may store on a user's computer. Local shared objects have been used by all versions of ...

file format * /, the XML/HTML character entity for the

slash (punctuation) The slash is the oblique slanting line punctuation mark . Also known as a stroke, a solidus or several other historical or technical names including oblique and virgule. Once used to mark periods and commas, the slash is now used to represen ...

Medicine

Sleep onset latency In sleep science, sleep onset latency (SOL) is the length of time that it takes to accomplish the transition from full wakefulness to sleep, normally to the lightest of the non-REM sleep stages. Sleep latency studies Pioneering Stanford Universi ...

- length of time of the transition from full wakefulness to sleep *

Space-occupying lesion A lesion is any damage or abnormal change in the tissue of an organism, usually caused by disease or Trauma (medicine), trauma. ''Lesion'' is derived from the Latin "injury". Lesions may occur in plants as well as animals. Types There is no ...

of the brain can be caused by different pathology such as a malignancy, an abscess or a haematoma

Other uses in science and technology

Sol (colloid) A sol is a colloidal suspension made out of tiny solid particles in a continuous liquid medium. Sols are stable and exhibit the Tyndall effect, which is the scattering of light by the particles in the colloid. Examples include amongst others blo ...

, a type of suspension *

Sol geometry In mathematics, Thurston's geometrization conjecture states that each of certain three-dimensional topological spaces has a unique geometric structure that can be associated with it. It is an analogue of the uniformization theorem for two-dimens ...

, a three-dimensional Riemannian manifold *

Mars sol Sol (borrowed from the Latin word for sun) is a solar day on Mars; that is, a Mars-day. A sol is the apparent interval between two successive returns of the Sun to the same meridian (sundial time) as seen by an observer on Mars. It is one of seve ...

, the duration of a solar day on Mars

Sports

Los Angeles Sol The Los Angeles Sol was an American professional soccer club that was based in the Los Angeles suburb of Carson, California that participated in Women's Professional Soccer. The team was co-owned and operated by Blue Star, LLC and AEG, a subsidia ...

, a defunct professional soccer team *

Miami Sol The Miami Sol were a professional women's basketball team that was based in Miami and entered the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) in 2000. They played their games at American Airlines Arena as the sister team to the Miami Heat of the ...

, a defunct Women's National Basketball Association team *

Sonoma County Sol Sonoma County Sol is an American soccer team based in Santa Rosa, California, United States. Founded in 2004, the team plays in the National Premier Soccer League (NPSL), a national amateur league at the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyrami ...

, an American soccer team

Transportation

Sol (car marque) Sehol () or previously, Sol, is a Chinese car brand launched on April 24, 2018 by a SEAT and JAC Volkswagen Automotive Co., Ltd. joint venture. The original name Sol itself derives from the word ''sol'' which in Spanish stands for sun and pays a ...

, a car brand in the Chinese market *

Sol Líneas Aéreas SOL S.A. Líneas Aéreas was an Argentine airline founded in 2005, and operating since August 2006 pursuant to an agreement between Transatlántica Group and the government of Santa Fe Province, who sought to improve air connections between the ...

, an airline in Argentina *

Sol Linhas Aéreas Sol Linhas Aéreas Ltda. was a domestic airline based in Cascavel, Brazil. History The airline was founded in 2008. The company's main objective is to operate in the market of scheduled regional flights, connecting the city of Cascavel to other ...

, an airline in Brazil *

Sol (Madrid Metro) Sol is a station on Line 1, Line 2 and Line 3 of the Madrid Metro. It is located in Zone A and is the most central station on the Metro, located at the Puerta del Sol square. Because of its location, it is one of the busiest stations of the M ...

, a station on Line 1, 2 and 3 *

Solana Beach station Solana Beach station, also known as the Solana Beach Transit Center, is a train station on Amtrak California's ''Pacific Surfliner'' passenger train and on North County Transit District's COASTER commuter rail route located in Solana Beach, Calif ...

, a train station serving Solana Beach, California *

Stratford–Okahukura Line The Stratford–Okahukura Line (SOL) is a secondary railway line in the North Island of New Zealand, between the Marton - New Plymouth Line (MNPL) and the North Island Main Trunk (NIMT) Railway, with 15 intermediate stations. It is long thro ...

, a secondary railway line in New Zealand *

Honda CR-X del Sol The Honda CR-X del Sol (marketed in other markets as the Honda Civic del Sol, Honda del Sol and the Honda CRX) is a two-seater targa top car manufactured by Honda from 1992 until 1998. Despite the body resemblance to a mid-engine car design, the ...

, a small car manufactured by Honda

Other uses

Statute of limitations A statute of limitations, known in civil law systems as a prescriptive period, is a law passed by a legislative body to set the maximum time after an event within which legal proceedings may be initiated. ("Time for commencing proceedings") In m ...

, in criminal prosecution *

Skilled Occupation List The Skilled Occupation List is a list of occupations that are currently acceptable for immigration to Australia. Occupations are divided into separate categories such as professionals, managers, traders etc. A person selecting an occupation from ...

, skilled occupations acceptable for migration to Australia *

Standards of Learning The Standards of Learning (SOL) is a public school standardized testing program in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It sets forth learning and achievement expectations for core subjects for grades K-12 in Virginia's Public Schools. The standards repre ...

, a set of standards Virginia students must meet before graduation *

California State Prison, Solano California State Prison, Solano (SOL) is a male-only state prison located in the city of Vacaville, Solano County, California, adjacent to the California Medical Facility. The facility is also referenced as Solano State Prison, CSP-Solano, and CSP ...

(SOL), United States * ''

Service d'ordre légionnaire The Service d'ordre légionnaire (SOL, "Legionary Order Service") was a collaborationist militia created by Joseph Darnand, a far right veteran from the First World War. Too radical even for other supporters of the Vichy regime, it was granted i ...

'', a collaborationist militia in Vichy France * Soľ, a village in eastern Slovakia *

Sol (river) The Sol (russian: Соль) is a river in Perm Krai and Komi Republic, Russia, a :wikt:left bank, left tributary of the Chyornaya (Veslyana), Chyornaya, which in turn is a tributary of the Veslyana. The river is long. The source of the river is ...

, a river in Russia *

Society for Organizational Learning The Society for Organizational Learning (SoL) is an American organization founded in 1997 by Peter Senge. It replaced the Center for Organizational Learning at MIT. Since 1999, SoL publishes its own journal, "Reflections". Its European Counterpar ...

, an American organization working on corporate sustainability * Sol, an additional summer month in the proposed

International Fixed Calendar The International Fixed Calendar (also known as the IFC, Cotsworth plan, the Cotsworth calendar and the Eastman plan) is a proposed calendar reform designed by Moses B. Cotsworth, first presented in 1902. The solar calendar divides the year into ...

* Sol, a beer produced by the

Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma Brewery Cervecería Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma (Cervecería Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma / Heineken México) (English: Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma Brewery) is a major brewery based in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, founded in 1890. It is a subsidiary of Heineken Int ...

Senator On-Line Online Direct Democracy – (Empowering the People!) was a registered Australian political party. It was briefly named Climate Action! Immigration Action! Accountable Politicians! from January 2019 to September 2019, and had previously been known ...

, an Australian political party *

The Social Liberals (Austria) The Social Liberals (german: Die Sozialliberalen, SoL) is a minor social liberal political party in Austria. It has never won a legislative seat, seat in a elections in Austria, federal election. Formation The party was founded and its charter re ...

, a minor political party