SAP

sap

a solution of mineral salts, sugars, etc., that circulates in a plant

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What does it mean when you dream about sap?

The vital juices of plants and animals, sap represents bodily health and vigor (the sap of youth), which is why someone who feels depleted is “all sapped out.” Like the sap from the maple tree, someone who is excessively gullible or sentimental is “sappy” (sweet, syrupy).

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sap

[sap]

(botany)

The fluid part of a plant which circulates through the vascular system and is composed of water, gases, salts, and organic products of metabolism.

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sap

1. The fluid which circulates in trees, plants, etc.

2. Same as sapwood.

3.See quarry sap.

4. To dig a trench under a medieval fortress; used by besiegers who were intent on blowing up an enemy’s defensive structure.

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SAP

(company)

SAP AG (Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing).

SAP

(protocol)

Service Advertising Protocol.

SAP

(networking)

Service Access Point.

SAP

(language)

Symbolic Assembler Program.

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SAP

(1) (SAP America, Inc., Newtown Square, PA, www.sap.com) The U.S. branch of one of the world's largest software companies, SAP AG, Walldorf, Germany. SAP was founded in 1972 as Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing by five former engineers from IBM. SAP's R/2 mainframe and R/3 client/server business application suites were the flagship products for the company, catapulting the company into prominence in the 1980s and 1990s. Today, under the banner of the SAP Business Suite, SAP is a leading vendor in enterprise resource planning (ERP) and other enterprise business software.

In 2010, SAP acquired Sybase, maker of the popular Sybase database and related software. See SAP Business Suite, R/3 and Sybase.

(2) (Session Announcement Protocol) An IETF protocol for distributing session description messages to potential recipients. It is widely used to send SDP messages. See SIP.

(3) (Service Advertising Protocol) A NetWare protocol used to identify the services and addresses of servers attached to the network. The responses are used to update a table in the router known as the Server Information Table.

( 4) (Secondary Audio Program) An NTSC audio channel used for auxiliary transmission, such as foreign language broadcasting or teletext.

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