Sol or SOL may refer to:

Astronomy

* The

Sun The Sun is the star at the centre of the Solar System. It is a massive, nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions in its core, radiating the energy from its surface mainly as visible light a ...

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 sev ...

, solar day on Mars *

Solar System The Solar SystemCapitalization of the name varies. The International Astronomical Union, the authoritative body regarding astronomical nomenclature, specifies capitalizing the names of all individual astronomical objects but uses mixed "Sola ...

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 late-Roman and Byzantine solidus. Its longevity of use anchored it in many expressio ...

, or sou * Argentine sol *

Bolivian sol The sol was the currency of Bolivia Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in central South America. The country features diverse geography, including vast Amazonian plains, tropical lowlands, ...

, 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 h ...

, introduced in 1991 *

Peruvian sol (1863–1985) The sol, later ( 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 circulation life ...

Solana (blockchain platform) Solana is a blockchain platform which uses a proof-of-stake mechanism to provide smart contract functionality. Its native cryptocurrency is SOL. Solana was launched in 2020 by Solana Labs, which was founded by Anatoly Yakovenko and Raj Gokal i ...

(SOL), a cryptocurrency

Entertainment, arts and media

Music

Sol (musical note) G, also called Sol or So, 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 ...

or G, a note of the solfege music scale *

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 Band Sol Band (), sometimes known as just Sol, is a Palestinian band from the Gaza Strip, established in 2012. They are best known for their 2022 song "Raweq wa Haddy". History Sol Band was founded in late 2012, in the wake of 2012 Gaza War, the ...

or simply Sol, Palestinian folk-pop band * ''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 ...

* "Sol", a 2005 song by American post-metal band Rosetta from the album '' The Galilean Satellites'' * "Sol", a 2014 song by American metalcore band Invent Animate from the album ''

Everchanger ''Everchanger'' is the debut studio album by American metalcore band Invent Animate. The album was released on August 22, 2014, through Tragic Hero Records. It was produced by Brian Hood ( Being as an Ocean, Gideon, The Crimson Armada) and ...

'' * "Sol", a 2022 song by British metalcore band Oceans Ate Alaska from the album ''

Disparity Disparity and disparities may refer to: in healthcare: * Health disparities in finance: * Income disparity between females and males. ** Male–female income disparity in the United States ** Income gender gap * Economic inequality * Income in ...

Gaming

* '' The Shadows of Luclin'', sometimes referred to as ''SoL'', an expansion to the ''Everquest'' computer game *

Sol Badguy This is a list of characters from the ''Guilty Gear'' fighting game series. Creation and influences Daisuke Ishiwatari has cited Kazushi Hagiwara's manga '' Bastard!!'', and the fighting game ''Street Fighter II'' as influence to the ''Guilt ...

, 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 and television 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. In his ...

, 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 (), was thought to have been unimportant, disappearing altogether ...

, 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 wikt:sunna, sunna, "Sun") is the Solar deity, Sun personified in Germanic mythology. One of the two Old Hig ...

, a Germanic sun goddess

People

Sol (given name) Sol is a given name, usually a form of "Solomon Solomon (), also called Jedidiah, was the fourth monarch of the Kingdom of Israel (united monarchy), Kingdom of Israel and Judah, according to the Hebrew Bible. The successor of his father Davi ...

, 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 * Amy Sol (born 1981), American artist * Seol Chong (650–730), Silla Dynasty scholar * Sul Hoon (bo ...

* Sol., author citation (botany) for Daniel Solander (1733–1782), Swedish botanical author * Sol (musician), hip hop performer Sol Moravia-Rosenberg *

Oliver Lieb Oliver Lieb (born 1969 in Frankfurt, Germany) is an electronic music producer and DJ. He has recorded under more than a dozen aliases with over 200 productions and remixes in various genres such as trance, house and techno.Taeyang Dong Young-bae (; born May 18, 1988), better known by his stage name Taeyang () or SOL, is a South Korean singer. He made his debut in 2006 as a member of the South Korean boy band BigBang. Following the release of several albums and extended ...

or SOL (born 1988), Korean singer

Politics

* Senator On-Line, an Australian political party *

Left Party (Turkey) The Left Party (, often written as SOL Parti) is a secular, socialist political party in Turkey. The Party was founded after the Freedom and Solidarity Party () decided to change its name to the Left Party at the 8th Extraordinary Congress held ...

(''SOL Parti''), a communist party *

The Social Liberals (Austria) The Social Liberals (, 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 registered and deposited at t ...

, a minor political party

Science and technology

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 on a local area network (LAN). Details On some managed systems, notably blade server systems, the serial ports ...

* Simple Object Language, the ancestor of

Lua programming language Lua is a lightweight, high-level, multi-paradigm programming language designed mainly for embedded use in applications. Lua is cross-platform software, since the interpreter of compiled bytecode is written in ANSI C, and Lua has a relativel ...

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 the integration of an Intel 8080-based motherboard, a VDM-1 graphics card, the 3 ...

, an early microcomputer produced by the Processor Technology Corporation * Sol (laptop), a solar-powered laptop by WeWi Telecommunications * .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 o ...

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

slash (punctuation) The slash is a slanting line punctuation mark . It is also known as a stroke, a solidus, a forward slash and #Alternative names, several other historical or technical names. Once used as the equivalent of the modern full stop, period and comma ...

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 solution made out of tiny solid particles in a continuous liquid medium. Sols are stable, so that they do not settle down when left undisturbed, and exhibit the Tyndall effect, which is the scattering of light by the particle ...

, a type of suspension *

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

, a three-dimensional Riemannian manifold *

Safety service Safety service (also: ''safety radiocommunication service'' or ''safety-of-life service'') is – according to ''Article 1.59'' of the International Telecommunication Union's (ITU) Radio Regulations (RR)ITU Radio Regulations, Section IV. Radio St ...

, safety-of-life service (SoL)

Sports

Austin Sol The Austin Sol are a professional ultimate team based in Austin, Texas. The Sol compete in the Ultimate Frisbee Association (UFA) as a member of the South Division. The team was founded in 2016, and played its first match on April 2, 2016. The Sol ...

, an Ultimate Frisbee Association team *

Los Angeles Sol The Los Angeles Sol was an American professional association football, 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 Anschutz E ...

, 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 League for Clubs, a national amateur league at the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, in the West Region ...

, 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. History The original name Sol itself derives from the word ''sol'' which in Spanish stands for su ...

, 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 ...

, 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 (rail service), COASTER commuter rail route loca ...

, 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, 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 repres ...

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

California State Prison, Solano California State Prison, Solano (SOL) is a male-only List of California state prisons, state prison located in the city of Vacaville, California, Vacaville in Solano County, California, adjacent to California Medical Facility. The facility is als ...

(SOL), United States * ''

Service d'ordre légionnaire Service may refer to: Activities * Administrative service, a required part of the workload of university faculty * Civil service, the body of employees of a government * Community service, volunteer service for the benefit of a community or a ...

'', a collaborationist militia in Vichy, France *

Soľ Soľ () is a village and municipality in Vranov nad Topľou District in the Prešov Region of eastern Slovakia. It is one of the oldest villages in eastern Slovakia. History The land that is now Sol' was the location of intermittent human settle ...

, a village in eastern Slovakia *

Sol (river) The Sol () is a river in Perm Krai and Komi Republic, Russia, a left tributary of the Chyornaya, which in turn is a tributary of the Veslyana The Veslyana () – is a river in Perm Krai and Komi Republic, Russia, a left tributary of the Kama ...

, 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. From 1999 until 2016, SoL published its own journal, "Reflections". Its European C ...

, 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 Cotsworth plan, the Cotsworth calendar, the Eastman plan or the Yearal) was a proposed reform of the Gregorian calendar designed by Moses B. Cotsworth, first presented in 1902. The Internationa ...

* 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 ...

Solomon Islands Solomon Islands, also known simply as the Solomons,John Prados, ''Islands of Destiny'', Dutton Caliber, 2012, p,20 and passim is an island country consisting of six major islands and over 1000 smaller islands in Melanesia, part of Oceania, t ...

, IOC *

The Sol Foundation Garry P. Nolan (born ) is a British-American immunologist, academic, inventor, and business executive. He holds the Rachford and Carlota A. Harris Professor Endowed Chair in the Department of Pathology at Stanford University School of Medicine. ...

, a think tank based in California