Som

Som, SOM or Søm may refer to:

Geography and transportation

• Somalia, the country whose ISO 3166 three-letter code and IOC Olympic country code is "SOM"
• State of Michigan, the 26th State of the United States
• Som, Uttar Pradesh, a town in India
• Søm, a borough in Kristiansand, Norway
• SOM Center Road, one designation of Ohio State Route 91
• Somerset Railroad (New York), a rail carrier whose reporting mark is "SOM"

Education

• School of Management, a business school
• School of Medicine, a medical school
• School of Music, a music school

Medicine

• Serous otitis media, a type of infection of middle ear
• Superior oblique muscle, one of the extraocular muscles controlling eye movements

Military

• SOM (missile), a cruise missile of the Turkish Air Force
• The Russian submarine Som, lead ship of the Som-class submarines.

Music

• The Sisters of Mercy (SoM), an English gothic rock band
• Som Wardner, Sri Lankan/British musician, frontman of My Vitriol
• State of Mind (band) (SoM), a drum and bass duo from New Zealand

Science & Technology

• Seine-Oise-Marne culture, name given by archaeologists to an ancient culture in northern France
• Self-organizing map, a type of artificial neural network in machine learning, also called Kohonen network.
• Service-oriented modeling, a service-oriented architecture modeling methology
• Simulation Object Model, a document describing a component within the High-level architecture (simulation)
• Soil organic matter, organic compounds within the mineral soil without living roots and animals
• IBM System Object Model, an object-oriented shared library most widely used in the operating system OS/2
• System Object Model (file format), an executable file format used by the HP-UX operating system for the PA-RISC platform
• System on module, a type of computer hardware device used in embedded systems

Other

• Som (currency) (a.k.a. sum, soum), the name by which the ruble was designated in Turkic-speaking Soviet republics, and the modern currency of Kyrgyzstan (code KGS) and Uzbekistan ("sum", code UZS)
• Som (grape), an alternative name for the Hungarian wine grape Furmint
• Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, an architectural firm
  • SOM Tower, part of the San Francisco Transbay development designed by the above firm
  • SOM Foundation, established in 1979 for architecture and engineering professions by the above firm
• The Somali language, whose ISO 539 three-letter code is "som"
• SOM, owner of the Saskatchewan Order of Merit, a Canadian provincial award
• Soundman (rank), a former rank of the U.S. Navy
• Som, a Cambodian Buddhist monk writer also known as Preah Botumthera Som or Padumatthera Som