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Contents 1 Academics 2 Games and gaming 3 Computers and technology 4 Microelectronics Technology 5 People 6 Locations 7 Other meanings 8 See also

Sim may refer to:

[edit] Academics

• Singapore Institute of Management
• Studio for Interrelated Media, an academic concentration at the Massachusetts College of Art
• Student information management, the process of educational institutions recording data about their students

[edit] Games and gaming

• Sim (pencil game)
• Sim (Maxis Sim games), a generic term for a humanoid character in the The Sims game franchise
• Simming, the act of playing any of several online roleplaying games
• Any simulation game

[edit] Computers and technology

• Subscriber Identity Module, or "SIM" card, a device used to store information in mobile phones
• Security Information Management, a concept in data security
• Selected ion monitoring, a type of mass chromatogram
• Simple Instant Messenger, a free instant messaging application
• A carpet simulation now called Tryk from the company Tricycle Inc.
• SIM is a Solid Immersion Mirror for Heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR)

[edit] Microelectronics Technology

• Solid-State Impact-Ionization Multipliers, or "SIM", is an amplifier that amplify small AC current signal to large current signal.

[edit] People

• Alastair Sim (1900–1976), Scottish character actor
• Dave Sim (born 1956), Canadian comic book author
• Thomas Robertson Sim (1858-1938), South African botanist
• Sheila Sim (born 1922), English film and theatre actress
• Sim Wong Hoo (born 1955), founder of computer audio company Creative Technology
• Sim (Star Trek), a fictional character in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Similitude"

[edit] Locations

• Sim, Chelyabinsk Oblast, a town in Chelyabinsk Oblast Russia
• Sim, Perm Krai, a settlement in Perm Krai, Russia
• Sim River, a river in Russia
• Sım, Azerbaijan

[edit] Other meanings

• Sim (Korean name)
• Simulation, an imitation of something else
• Serving In Mission, an international Christian mission organization formerly called Sudan Interior Mission
• Siberian International Marathon
• Space Interferometry Mission, a proposed NASA space mission also known as SIM PlanetQuest, or SIM Lite

[edit] See also

• Simsim

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