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S2 or S II may refer to:

Science and technology

  • S2 (star), a star in the center of the Milky Way galaxy
  • S/2007 S 2, a natural satellite of Saturn
  • Disulfur (S2), an allotrope of sulfur
  • S2: Keep out of the reach of children, a safety phrase in chemistry
  • S2 steel (shock resisting steel)

Mathematics

Biology and medicine

  • British NVC community S2, a swamps and tall-herb fens community in the British National Vegetation Classification system
  • Schneider 2 cells, or S2 cells, a commonly used Drosophila cell line
  • Secondary somatosensory cortex, a brain area in the parietal cortex
  • Sacral spinal nerve 2, a spinal nerve of the sacral segment
  • Schedule 2, an Australian legal category assigned to drugs; See Standard for the Uniform Scheduling of Medicines and Poisons
  • S2, the second sacral vertebrae
  • S2 (heart sound), a sound in cardiac auscultation
  • ATC code S02 Otologicals, a subgroup of the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System

Computing

Transportation

Cars

  • Audi S2, a turbo-charged sports car
  • Lotus Elise S2, a Lotus Elise production series of roadster automobile
  • Porsche 944 S2, a 3l naturally aspirated Porsche 944 sports car

Roads and bus routes

  • County Route S2 (California)
  • Expressway S2 (Poland), a southern bypass of Warsaw
  • S2 National Highway, one of the National Highways of Pakistan
  • S2 expressway (Shanghai), an expressway in Shanghai also known as the Hulu Expressway
  • S2, an abbreviation for a standard single carriageway road, with a single lane going in each direction
  • Stagecoach Gold bus route S2, a bus route in Oxfordshire, England

Aviation and space

  • Bangladesh (aircraft registration code)
  • JetLite (IATA airline code)
  • Focke-Wulf S 2, a 1928 German trainer aircraft
  • Grumman S-2 Tracker, a 1952 United States Navy anti-submarine warfare (ASW) aircraft
  • SABCA S-2, a 1926 Belgian aircraft
  • Short S.2, a Short Brothers aircraft
  • Strojnik S-2, motorglider
  • S-II or S-2, the 2nd stage of the Saturn V rocket

Rail

Locomotives

  • Alco S-2, a locomotive
  • PRR S2, a unique steam turbine locomotive

Train lines

Military

  • Soviet submarine S-2, a Soviet World War II submarine
  • Grumman S-2 Tracker, a US Navy aircraft
  • Finnish torpedo boat S2, which sank in 1925
  • USS S-2 (SS-106), a US Navy submarine
  • Göta Signal Corps (designation S2), a 1944–1997 Swedish Army signal unit
  • S2 (missile), the first deployed French land-based strategic missile
  • S-2, a military intelligence officer on the staff of a regiment or battalion
  • HMS Rorqual (S02), a 1956 British Royal Navy Porpoise-class submarine

Organisations

  • S2 Records, a subsidiary of Sony Music
  • S2 (TV channel), a former Scottish television channel
  • S2 Games, a video game developer
  • S2 Yachts, a defunct sailboat-building company

Products

  • Samsung Galaxy S II, an Android smartphone
  • Samsung Gear S2, a Tizen smartwatch

Cameras

  • Nikon S2, a 35mm rangefinder camera produced between 1954 and 1958 as part of the Nikon S-mount range
  • Nikon 1 S2, a digital mirrorless interchangeable lens camera
  • Canon PowerShot S2 IS, a 2005 5.0 megapixel digital camera
  • FinePix S2 Pro, a 2002 interchangeable lens digital single-lens reflex camera by Fuji
  • Leica S2, a 2009 37 million pixel medium format digital single-lens reflex camera

Other uses

  • S2, a version of the racing simulation Live for Speed
  • S2, a district of the S postcode area, covering areas of eastern Sheffield
  • Seattle Sounders FC 2, nicknamed S2
  • Second year, in the Scottish education system
  • S2 (classification), used for categorising swimmers based on their level of disability
  • Splatoon 2, a 2017 video game for the Nintendo Switch
  • Pitts Special, Two-Seat Aerobatics Biplane
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