Being in a healthy condition; not deranged; acting rationally; -- said of the mind.

Mentally sound; possessing a rational mind; having the mental faculties in such condition as to be able to anticipate and judge of the effect of one's actions in an ordinary maner; -- said of persons.

A pressure group which argues for improved residential care for people with mental health problems.

SANE stands for "Scanner Access Now Easy" and is an application programming interface that provides standardized access to any raster image scanner hardware . The SANE standard is public domain and its discussion and development are open to everybody.

programming:(Standard Apple Numeric Environment) Apple's implementation of the standards for mathematical computation developed by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers). Using SANE results in highly accurate, predictable, reproducible math. It takes time, though. Some applications have their own routines that are much faster, with the trade-off being that they are less precise.

See Standard Apple Numerics Environment.

marked by sound judgment; "sane nuclear policy"