STAR

The acronym STAR may refer to:

In organizations:
* Special Tasks and Rescue or Special Tactics and Response, synonyms for SWAT
** Special Tactics and Rescue (Singapore), of the Singapore Police Force
* STAR (interbank network), an interbank network
* STAR Events, a program of the Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America organization
* STAR Study Association RSM Erasmus University, Europe's largest student association
* Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries, a transgender activist organization founded in 1970
* Supporters Trust At Reading, the Reading Football Club's supporters' trust
* S.T.A.R. Labs, a fictional research organization in the DC Comics universe
* S.T.A.R.S. (Resident Evil); Special Tactics And Rescue Service, a fictional task force in the "Resident Evil" video game franchise

In technology:
* STAR detector, the Solenoidal Tracker At RHIC one of the major experimental setup at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider located at the Brookhaven National Laboratory
* STAR Bus, a satellite platform manufactured by Orbital Sciences Corporation
* Steroidogenic acute regulatory protein a transport protein that regulates cholesterol transfer within the mitochondria

In education:
* Standardized Testing and Reporting (STaR), a measure of school performance in California
* STAR (software), periodic assessments of reading (STAR Reading), early literacy (STAR Early Literacy, SEL), and mathematical (STAR Math) skills created by Renaissance Learning, Inc.

In other uses:
* Sekolah Tuanku Abdul Rahman, a secondary school in Malaysia
* Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race, also known as the "OSTAR"
* Situation, Task, Action, Result, an interview technique
* SMK Tengku Ampuan Rahimah, a secondary school in Klang, Malaysia
* Standard Terminal Arrival Route, the route that planes follow under instrument flight rules when they approach an airport
* Steroidogenic acute regulatory protein, known as "StAR"
* STAR TV (Asia), Asian television network owned by News Corporation
* Southern Tagalog Arterial Road, a Philippine highway

See also

* Star (disambiguation)