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PS

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P.S. commonly refers to:

  • Postscript, writing added after the main body of a letter

PS, P.S., ps, and other variants may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Music

Other media

  • PlayStation, a video gaming brand owned by Sony
  • PlayStation (console), a home video game console by Sony
  • P.S. (film), a 2004 film
  • P.S., a 2010 film by Yalkin Tuychiev
  • PS Publishing, based in the UK.

Language

  • Pashto language (ISO 639 alpha-2 language code "ps")
  • Proto Semitic, a hypothetical proto-language ancestral to historical Semitic languages of the Middle East
  • The sound of the Greek letter psi (Greek) (ψ).

Places

Politics

Religion

  • Pastors, ministers in some Christian churches
  • Psalms, a book in the Tanakh and Christian Bibles

Science and technology

Units of measurement

  • Petasecond (Ps), 1015 seconds
  • Picosecond (ps), 10−12 seconds
  • Pferdestärke (PS), abbreviation of the German term for metric horsepower
  • Picosiemens (pS), SI unit of electric conductance

Computing

  • Adobe Photoshop, a graphics editor and creator by Adobe
  • MPEG program stream, an MPEG-2 container format
  • Parametric Stereo, feature used in digital audio
  • PostScript, a page description language
    • .ps, filename extension for a file in PostScript format
  • ps (Unix), an application that displays statistics on running processes
  • .ps, the State of Palestine Internet domain extension or top-level domain (ccTLD)
  • PS Power and Sample Size, an interactive computer program for power and sample size calculations
  • Windows PowerShell, a command line scripting and system management shell for Microsoft Windows

Medicine

  • Panayiotopoulos syndrome, a childhood seizure disorder
  • Progeroid syndromes, a group of rare diseases causing premature aging
  • Pulmonary stenosis or pulmonic stenosis, obstruction of the pulmonary artery of the heart

Physics and chemistry

  • Ps or static pressure, in fluid mechanics and aviation
  • Proton Synchrotron, a 1959 particle accelerator at CERN
  • Chloropicrin, a highly toxic chemical compound
  • Phosphatidylserine, a phospholipid
  • Phosphorothioate (or thiophosphate), a family of compounds and anions with the general chemical formula PS4−xOx3− (x = 0, 1, 2, or 3)
  • Polystyrene, a common type of plastic
  • Ps, positronium, pseudo-chemical symbol
  • PS, the chemical formula for the sulfanylidenephosphanide molecule

Transportation

Other uses

See also

  • P.S. I Love You (disambiguation)
  • PSS (disambiguation)
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