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Sod is grass and the part of the soil beneath it held together by the roots.

Sod or SOD may also refer to:

Language

• English colloquial word "sod" originally derived from Sodomite
• Arabic letter ṣād ص

Science

• Superoxide dismutase (SOD), a group of antioxidant enzymes
• Small Outline Diode (SOD), an integrated circuit packaging type
• Septo-optic dysplasia (SOD), a congenital malformation syndrome of the optic nerve
• Sphincter of Oddi dysfunction (SOD), a digestive condition pertaining to the sphincter muscle of Oddi
• Sudden oak death (SOD), caused by Phytophthora ramorum

Entertainment

• Soft On Demand (SOD), a Japanese porn company
• Spear of Destiny (SOD), episode of video game Wolfenstein 3D
  • SOD, a video game art mod by Jodi (art collective)
• Stormtroopers of Death (S.O.D.), a New York crossover thrash band
• S.O.D. - The Epic Years, a 1987 compilation album by Spear of Destiny (band)
• S.O.D., mixtape by Tony Yayo (2008)
• Season of Discovery in the game World of Warcraft

Other abbreviations

• Separation of duties (SoD), or segregation of duties, for fraud and error prevention
• Shannon-One-Design (SOD), a class of sailing dinghy
• Special Operations Division (SOD) of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
• Systems-oriented design (S.O.D.)
• Screen of death, informal term for a critical operating system error (e.g. blue screen of death – BSOD)

Other uses

• Sod Ryan (1905–1964), American football player
• Sod, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in northeastern Lincoln County, West Virginia, United States
• Sod, a type of Pardes (Jewish exegesis)

See also

• Sods (disambiguation)
• Sod's law, UK: if something can go wrong, it will
• How to Be a Little Sod, book by Simon Brett

• Disambiguation pages