SOS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does SOS mean? 

• SOS (noun)
  The noun SOS has 1 sense:

1. an internationally recognized distress signal in radio code

  Familiarity information: SOS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An internationally recognized distress signal in radio code

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("SOS" is a kind of...):

distress call; distress signal (an internationally recognized signal sent out by a ship or plane indicating that help is needed)

 Context examples 

Myristylation is essential for FRS2 membrane localization, Tyr phosphorylation, GRB2/SOS recruitment, and MAPK activation.

(FGFR Substrate 2, NCI Thesaurus)

The HGF receptor can associate with several different signaling systems, including src, Grb2/SOS, PI3 kinase and Gab1.

(Hepatocyte Growth Factor Receptor Signaling Pathway BioCarta, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Excision Repair mechanisms remove and replace damaged nucleotides from DNA molecules with new nucleotide subunits, e.g., Base Excision Repair, Nucleotide Excision Repair, or SOS Function.

(Excision Repair, NCI Thesaurus)

Figures were released by the SOS Mata Atlântica Foundation and the National Institute for Space Research (INPE).

(Brazilian Atlantic Forest deforestation up nearly 60% in a year, Agência Brasil)

Serine phosphorylation of the extracellular signal-regulated kinases (ERKs)/mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) 1 and 2 is central to trefoil factor-mediated signaling, lying downstream of EGFR activation and possibly FAK activation (through recruitment of GRB2 and SOS).

(Mucosal Healing Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Leandra Gonçalves, a biologist at Brazil's SOS Mata Atlântica Foundation, said the ideia of a whale sanctuary has been advocated by the Brazilian government since 1999 to stop whaling in the South Atlantic.

(Brazil to support South Atlantic whale sanctuary bid, Agência BRASIL)

The area is approximately equivalent to the size of São Paulo city, according to data released today (Jan. 17) by the SOS Mata Atlântica Foundation and the Brazilian Institute for Space Research (INPE).

(Brazil: Atlantic Forest regeneration in nine states, Agência Brasil)

FGFR-mediated Tyr-phosphorylated FRS2 binds to FGFR1 and GRB2/SOS in response to FGF or NGF.

(FGFR Substrate 2, NCI Thesaurus)

According to SOS Mata Atlântica Executive Director Marcia Hirota, the forest, which has spread across 17 states for ten years, had not seen such high levels of deforestation.

(Brazilian Atlantic Forest deforestation up nearly 60% in a year, Agência Brasil)