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Sol is most commonly the name or personification of the Sun. Other meanings and uses of sol include:

Abbreviations

• Klondike solitaire, card game (named Sol as part of the GNOME desktop environment)
• Solution

Acronyms

• Satellite of Orbital Laser, in the manga and anime Akira
• Satellite of Love (MST3K), the spacecraft serving as the main setting for the television show Mystery Science Theater 3000
• Scars of Life
• Speed of light
• Statute of limitations, a legal term
• Stadium of Light, the home of Sunderland A.F.C.

Currency

• The Peruvian sol, used in Peru between 1863 and 1985
• The Peruvian nuevo sol, named after the earlier sol, introduced in 1991
• The sol (later sou), a coin used in France during the 13th–18th century], derived from the Roman solidus
• The SOL Project, a complementary currency under development in France

People

• Sol., a citation abbreviation for Daniel Solander, a standard botanical author
• Sol Badguy, a bounty hunter character of the Guilty Gear game series
• Sol Campbell, a soccer player
• Sol (comedian), a fictional character created by Marc Favreau
• Sol (goddess), the goddess of the sun in Norse mythology

Other

• Sol (beer), a beer brewed by Cervecería Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma in Mexico
• Sol (colloid), suspensions of solid particles in a liquid
• Sol gel, a colloidal suspension of silicon dioxide that is gelled to form a solid
• Sol Ring, an artifact card from the game Magic: The Gathering that produces two colorless mana
• Sol, the fifth note of the solfege music scale
• Warp drive, called sol in some non-English versions of the Star Trek television series
• Sol, a city in the video game Legend of Legaia
• Sol, one of six South Devon Railway Gorgon class steam locomotives
• "Sol", a song by Kinky from their 2002 album Kinky
• The run command for Microsoft Solitaire in Windows

See also

• SOL
• Sole

• Disambiguation pages