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PSS may refer to:

Businesses and organizations

  • Parliament Security Services, in charge of providing security to the Parliament of India
  • Price Stern Sloan, publishing company owned by Penguin Group/Penguin Random House
  • Product Support Services, a Microsoft business unit
  • Strength of Serbia Movement (Serbian: Pokret Snaga Srbije, PSS), a political party
  • PSS World Medical, an American distributor of medical products, equipment, billing services and pharmaceuticals
  • Pakistan Statistical Society, an academic and professional society of statisticians
  • Społem or PSS Społem, a Polish consumers' co-operative of local grocery stores
  • PSS (UK), a British charity

Political parties

Science

Biology and medicine

  • Perceived Stress Scale, a psychological instrument for measuring perceived stress in humans
  • Porcine stress syndrome, a condition in pigs
  • Portosystemic shunt, a disease found in humans, cats and dogs
  • Progressive systemic sclerosis, a rare chronic disease
  • Psychosocial short stature, a growth disorder that is caused by extreme stress

Physics and chemistry

  • Periodic steady-state analysis, type of simulation
  • Physica Status Solidi, a family of academic journals focused on solid state physics
  • Physical symbol system, a hypothesis concerning cognition, closely connected to AI research
  • Photostationary state, the equilibrium chemical composition under a specific kind of electromagnetic irradiation
  • Plasma sound source, a means of making sonar underwater
  • Polystyrene sulfonic acid, also known as sodium polystyrene sulfonate or poly(styrenesulfonate)
  • Power system simulator for engineering (PSS®E or PSS/E), a software tool used by power system engineers to simulate electrical power transmission networks
  • Practical Salinity Scale, the conductivity ratio of a sea water sample to a standard KCl solution

Computer science

  • Packet Switch Stream, a British packet-switched network
  • Packet switching, a method of grouping data that is transmitted over a digital network into packets
  • Panorama Software Sys-On-Line
  • Probabilistic signature scheme, a secure way of creating signatures with RSA
  • Proportional set size, a measure of computer program memory use

Schools

Canada

  • Parkland Secondary School, North Saanich, a suburb of Victoria, British Columbia
  • Penetanguishene Secondary School, Simcoe County District School Board, Ontario
  • Penticton Secondary School, Penticton, British Columbia
  • Pinetree Secondary School, Coquitlam, British Columbia
  • Parkview Secondary School, Ham

Other places

  • PAREF Springdale School, Cebu City, Philippines
  • Pak Shama School, Doha, Qatar
  • Pakistan School Salalah, Salalah, Oman
  • Park Secondary School, Dudley, West Midlands
  • Popatlal Secondary School, Tanga, Tanzania

Ships

  • PSS Kedam, a patrol boat for Palau
  • PSS Wingfield Castle, a former Humber Estuary ferry, now a museum ship in Hartlepool, County Durham, England

Sports & Stadiums

  • Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Stadium, a sporting stadium in Colombo, Sri Lanka
  • Philippine Sports Stadium, a sporting stadium in Bocaue, Philippines
  • PFC Septemvri Sofia, a Bulgarian football club based in Sofia
  • Porvoon Salibandyseura, a Finnish sports club
  • PSS Sleman, a football club based in Sleman Regency, Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Military

Other uses

  • Kaulong language (ISO 639:pss), an Austronesian language
  • Libertador General José de San Martín Airport (IATA code PSS), Posadas, Misiones, Argentina
  • Palestinian Security Services, the armed forces and intelligence agencies of the State of Palestine
  • Passenger service system, systems used by airlines to manage reservations, inventory and check-in
  • Performance supervision system, a software system used to improve the performance of a process plant
  • Player Search System, how Pokémon X and Y players can connect to each other around the world
  • PortaSound PSS series, a series of portable Yamaha keyboards
  • Power scale soaring, a form of radio controlled model flying
  • Power system stabilizer, in power generation; see Wide-area damping control
  • Presidential Security Service, a South Korean close protection agency
  • Product-service system, a system of consumer access to products, as an alternative to personal product ownership
  • Psalms, a book of the Hebrew Bible
  • PSS Nkwen kidnapping, a 2008 kidnapping at Presbyterian Secondary School in Nkwen, near Bamenda, Cameroon

See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with PSS
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