Sol or SOL may refer to:

Astronomy

* The Sun

Currency

* SOL Project, 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 currency of Bolivia from 1827 to 1864 * Peruvian sol, introduced in 1991 * Peruvian sol (1863–1985) * Solana (blockchain platform) (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 equa ...

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 com ...

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 drum The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instrument ...

, a Canadian indie rock band active in the 1990s * ''Sol'' (album), an album by electronic musician Eskmo * ''Sol'', an album by

Ougenweide Ougenweide was a German progressive rock band. They are notable for being pioneers of the medieval folk rock subgenre. (In German) The name comes from Middle High German ''ougenweide'' (Augenweide - ''feast for the eyes''). Band history The ...

* ''Shit Out of Luck'', a 1996 album by The Lillingtons

Gaming

* ''SOL'', or '' The Shadows of Luclin'', 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 ...

, 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) Sol is a fictional character written for and performed on stage by the Canadian actor Marc Favreau. Sol is a clown (tramp type) who handily deconstructs the French language, to the amusement of adults as well as children. Sol mostly appears alone ...

, 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), a Germanic sun goddess

People

* Sol (given name), a given name * Sol (Korean surname) * Sol., author citation (botany) for Daniel Solander (1733–1782), Swedish botanical author * Sol (musician), 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", Tae ...

or SOL (born 1988), Korean singer

Science and technology

* Sol, the Latin name for the Sun

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 * 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, ...

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, a computer produced by company Processor Technology * .sol, a local shared object 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 repres ...

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 Univers ...

- length of time of the transition from full wakefulness to sleep * Space-occupying lesion 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-dimensi ...

, a three-dimensional Riemannian manifold * Mars sol, the duration of a solar day on Mars

Sports

* Los Angeles Sol, a defunct professional soccer team * Miami Sol, 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), a car brand in the Chinese market * Sol Líneas Aéreas, an airline in Argentina * Sol Linhas Aéreas, 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, 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 ...

, 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 fro ...

, 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 repr ...

, 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'', a collaborationist militia in Vichy France * Soľ, a village in eastern Slovakia * Sol (river), 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 Inter ...

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), a minor political party