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  • SAE
    SAE
    abbreviation
    self-addressed envelope.
  • s.a.e.
    s.a.e.
    abbreviation
    stamped addressed envelope
  • sae
    sae
    adverb
    a Scot word for so 1

SAE

American  
Also sae,

abbreviation

  1. self-addressed envelope.

  2. Society of Automotive Engineers.

  3. Chiefly British. stamped addressed envelope.

  4. Standard American English.


SAE 1 British  

abbreviation

  1. Society of Automotive Engineers

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

s.a.e. 2 British  

abbreviation

  1. stamped addressed envelope

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

sae 3 British  
/ se /

adverb

  1. a Scot word for so 1

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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“There was a mystique around it—the Cornell SAE people, that was a demographic within SpaceX,” said Charlotte Kiang, a former SpaceX employee who earned a master’s in engineering from the school.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 13, 2026

It’s been independently evaluated by the Light Aircraft Manufacturers Assn., and Pivotal’s quality management system has received a certification from SAE International, which sets aviation safety standards.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 30, 2026

Most of the boys got suspended sentences, the Kappa Alpha Order is back on campus, and SAE never left.

From Salon Apr. 5, 2024

The SAE is also developing technical guidelines for what’s known as “dynamic inductive charging” — i.e. charging without a plug when a vehicle is in motion.

From Seattle Times Feb. 26, 2024

Finally, the SAE module helps ensure semantic alignment between both data representations during the fusion process, which mitigates the issue of feature ambiguity.

From Science Daily Jan. 9, 2024

I sae all the jokes Michelle Wolf made about Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

From BBC Apr. 29, 2018

But Burns' spirit still has the fire to reply: O ye wha are sae guid yoursel, Sae pious and sae holy, Ye've nought to do but mark and tell Your neebours' fauts and folly.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Moi faether used tae sae: ‘Wool en tae mouth and wool en tae head.’

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

Patie.—What reason, Sir, can an auld woman have To tell a lie when she's sae near her grave?

From The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion by Turnbull, Robert

Says Tweed to Till, 'What gars ye rin sae still?'

From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Drake, Samuel Adams

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