SSC

SSC may refer to:

In arts and entertainment

• Singapore Symphony Chorus
• Saïan Supa Crew, a French rap group
• So Solid Crew, a UK garage group

Businesses

• Seoul Semiconductor Company, a Korean manufacturer of LEDs
• Shanghai Supercomputer Center, a High Performance Computing Service Provider
• Shared services center, Outsourcing
• Shelby SuperCars, an automobile manufacturer
• Specialized Systems Consultants, a private media company
• Swedish Space Corporation, a Swedish government owned company
• Southern Star Central Gas Pipeline, Inc, based in Owensboro, KY
• Syrian Satellite Channel, a satellite television channel owned by RTV Syria

In education

• Student selected components, optional elements in the syllabus of UK medical schools
• Secondary School Certificate, the certificate given to students graduating from a secondary school in India, Pakistan or Bangladesh
• Secondary School Leaving Certificate examination
• Special Science Class an advanced curriculum on secondary level

Educational institutions

In Hong Kong

• St Stephen's College, Hong Kong, in Stanley, Hong Kong Island
• St. Stephen's Girls' College, Hong Kong, in Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong Island

In Australia

• Sydney Secondary College, a public school in Sydney, Australia
• St Stanislaus' College, Bathurst, New South Wales
• Santa Sabina College, Strathfield, New South Wales
• Saint Stephen's College, Coomera, Queensland

In the Philippines

• St. Scholastica's College in Manila, Philippines
• San Sebastian College – Recoletos in Manila, Philippines

In the United States

• Saint Stanislaus College, a high school in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi
• Salem State University, a public college in Salem, Massachusetts
• Seminole State College of Florida, a public college in Seminole County, Florida
• South Suburban College, a community college in South Holland, Illinois
• Seminole State College (Oklahoma), a public college in Seminole, Oklahoma

In dentistry

• Stein Steel Crown, mainly used on primary teeth

Groups and organizations

• Statistical Society of Canada
• Sierra Student Coalition, a student-run arm of the Sierra Club
• Society of Solicitors in the Supreme Courts of Scotland, a professional association of solicitors in Scotland
• Society of the Holy Cross (Societas Sanctae Crucis)
• Society of the Sacred Cross
• Species Survival Commission, a part of the World Conservation Union (IUCN)
• Staff Selection Commission, Indian government organization
• State Security Council of apartheid South Africa
• State Services Commission of New Zealand
• Sector Skills Council
• Society of the Holy Cross (Societas Sanctae Crucis), for male Anglican Priests

Places

• Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina (FAA code)
• John C. Stennis Space Center in southern Mississippi
• Second Severn Crossing bridge over the River Severn, between England and Wales
• South Sioux City, Nebraska, United States
• Second Severn Crossing, a motorway bridge across the River Severn from England to Wales
• Sool, Sanaag and Cayn, three provinces in Somalia collectively known as Khatumo State since 2012

In science and technology

Technologies

• Thrust SSC, world's first supersonic land vehicle and current land speed record holder
• Ship-to-Shore Connector a future air-cushion vehicle (hovercraft) of the United States Navy
• Soft structured carrier, a soft (often fabric) baby carrier
• Sistema Supporto Condotta, a kind of automated railway signaling in use on the Italian railway network

In the life sciences

• California species of special concern, a legal protective designation for at-risk wildlife in the state of California
• SSC buffer, a saline sodium citrate buffer commonly used in molecular biology and organic chemistry
• Spontaneous synaptic current, in electrophysiology
• Stretch shortening cycle, a process of faster muscular contraction after a dynamic stretch
• Systemic scleroderma, an autoimmune connective tissue disease

In the physical sciences

• Spatial Synoptic Classification system, which is a way of diagnosing the climate of a location using air mass theory
• Sulfide stress cracking, a type of corrosion
• Super star clusters, in astronomy, possible progenitors of globular clusters
• Superconducting Super Collider, a colliding beam particle accelerator partially built in Texas by the US government before being canceled in 1993

In computing and information technology

• Security Subsystem Class, developed by the TCG (Trusted Computing Group) to specify data security on physical disks such as HDDs (Hard Disk Drives) or SSDs (Solid-State Drives).
• Secure Socket Certificate, a security certificate used in Transport Layer Security technology
• Spread-spectrum clocking, a technique used to reduce electromagnetic interference (EMI) produced by synchronous digital systems (such as computer systems).
• SQL Server Compact, a small-footprint database from Microsoft
• Sufficiently Smart Compiler, any of a family of theoretically possible compilers able to perform sophisticated but unrealistic code optimizations
• SinuSoidal Coding used for audio in MPEG-4 Part 3

In sports

• Speed Skating Canada
• Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, a venue for international cricket matches in Colombo, Sri Lanka
• South Shore Conference, a youth hockey league in Southeastern Massachusetts
• Sunshine State Conference, a sports organization in Florida

SSC Points

• The U.S. Army's Soldier Systems Center in Natick, Massachusetts
• Safe, sane and consensual, a practice in BDSM
• Strawberry Shortcake, a doll brand from American Greetings
• Shared services, the provision of a service by one part of an organization or group where that service had previously been found in more than one part of the organization or group
• Hull classification symbol for coastal submarine