Soap (disambiguation) - Definition

The term soap has multiple meanings:

• Soap is a cleaning mixture used for personal or minor cleaning and which usually comes in a bar or a cake.
• SOAP, formerly an acronym of Simple Object Access Protocol, is a computer standard defining a message format used by web services.
• There was a controversial 1970s sitcom called Soap, starring Katherine Helmond and Cathryn Damon.
• Soap is also a colloquial term for a soap opera.

When used as an acronym, SOAP might denote one of the following expansions:

• Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology
• The subjective, objective, analysis, plan approach to high dependency medicine
• The IBM 650's Symbolic Optimal Assembly Program
• The Aerospace Corporation's Satellite Orbit Analysis Program.
• The US Small Operator Assistance Program of aid to small mines.