CS, C-S, C.S., Cs, cs, or cs. may refer to:

Job titles

Chief Secretary (Hong Kong) The Chief Secretary for Administration, commonly known as the Chief Secretary of Hong Kong, is the most senior principal official of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The Chief Secretary is head of the Governmen ...

* Chief superintendent, a rank in the British and several other police forces * Company secretary, a senior position in a private sector company or public sector organisation * Culinary Specialist, a US Navy occupational rating

Language

Czech language Czech (; Czech ), historically also Bohemian (; ''lingua Bohemica'' in Latin), is a West Slavic language of the Czech–Slovak group, written in Latin script. Spoken by over 10 million people, it serves as the official language of the Czech ...

(ISO 639-1 language code) *

Hungarian cs This is a list of digraphs used in various Latin alphabets. Capitalisation involves only the first letter (''ch'' becomes ''Ch'') unless otherwise stated (''ij'' becomes ''IJ''). Letters with diacritics are arranged in alphabetic order accordin ...

, a digraph in the Hungarian alphabet

Organizations

* Christian Social Party (Austria), a major conservative political party in the Cisleithania, part of Austria-Hungary, and in the First Republic of Austria * Citizens (Spanish political party), a post-nationalist political party in Spain * Congregation of the Missionaries of St. Charles, a Catholic religious congregation, also called ''Scalabrinians'' *

Confederate States of America The Confederate States of America (CSA), commonly referred to as the Confederate States or the Confederacy was an unrecognized breakaway republic in the Southern United States that existed from February 8, 1861, to May 9, 1865. The Confede ...

, an unrecognized confederation of secessionist North American slave states existing from 1861 to 1865

Companies

Colorado and Southern Railway The Colorado and Southern Railway was an American Class I railroad in the western United States that operated independently from 1898 to 1908, then as part of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad until it was absorbed into the Burli ...

, a railroad company in the western United States * Comlux Aruba NV ( IATA airline code: CS) * Copenhagen Suborbitals, a Danish non-profit rocket group working on the HEAT1X-TYCHO BRAHE rocket *

CouchSurfing CouchSurfing is a hospitality exchange service by which users can request homestays or interact with other people who are interested in travel. It is accessible via a website and mobile app. It uses a subscription business model, and while ...

, a hospitality service * Credit Suisse, a Swiss financial services company

Places

* Cannon Street station, London, UK, abbreviated CS in UK railway slang *

Czechoslovakia , rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי, , common_name = Czechoslovakia , life_span = 1918–19391945–1992 , p1 = Austria-Hungary , image_p1 ...

(former ISO 3166-1 country code) *

Serbia and Montenegro Serbia and Montenegro ( sr, Cрбија и Црна Гора, translit=Srbija i Crna Gora) was a country in Southeast Europe located in the Balkans that existed from 1992 to 2006, following the breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yu ...

(former ISO 3166-1 country code)

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

Cardiogenic shock Cardiogenic shock (CS) is a medical emergency resulting from inadequate blood flow due to the dysfunction of the ventricles of the heart.Textbooks of Internal MedicinHarrison's Principles of Internal Medicine 16th Edition, The McGraw-Hill Compan ...

, a medical emergency where heart fails to pump properly to push blood forward. * Caesarean section, a surgical procedure to deliver one or more babies, or, rarely, to remove a dead fetus *

Cockayne syndrome Cockayne syndrome (CS), also called Neill-Dingwall syndrome, is a rare and fatal autosomal recessive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by growth failure, impaired development of the nervous system, abnormal sensitivity to sunlight (phot ...

, a rare autosomal recessive, congenital disorder *

Conditioned stimulus Classical conditioning (also known as Pavlovian or respondent conditioning) is a behavioral procedure in which a biologically potent stimulus (e.g. food) is paired with a previously neutral stimulus (e.g. a triangle). It also refers to the learn ...

, in the psychological procedure of classical conditioning *

Corticosteroids Corticosteroids are a class of steroid hormones that are produced in the adrenal cortex of vertebrates, as well as the synthetic analogues of these hormones. Two main classes of corticosteroids, glucocorticoids and mineralocorticoids, are in ...

, a class of hormones produced in vertebrates, and their synthetic analogues *

Cowden syndrome Cowden syndrome (also known as Cowden's disease and multiple hamartoma syndrome) is an autosomal dominant inherited condition characterized by benign overgrowths called hamartomas as well as an increased lifetime risk of breast, thyroid, uterine, ...

, a rare autosomal dominant inherited disorder *

(-)-camphene synthase (–)-camphene synthase (EC 4.2.3.117, ''CS'') is an enzyme with systematic name geranyl-diphosphate diphosphate-lyase yclizing, (–)-camphene-forming''. This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction A chemical reaction is a proces ...

, an enzyme *

CS (gene) The enzyme citrate synthase E.C. 2.3.3.1 (previously 4.1.3.7)] exists in nearly all living cells and stands as a pace-making enzyme in the first step of the citric acid cycle (or Krebs cycle). Citrate synthase is localized within eukaryotic cel ...

, which encodes the enzyme citrate synthase

Chemistry

Caesium Caesium ( IUPAC spelling) (or cesium in American English) is a chemical element with the symbol Cs and atomic number 55. It is a soft, silvery-golden alkali metal with a melting point of , which makes it one of only five elemental metals that ...

or Cesium, symbol Cs, a chemical symbol *

Carbon monosulfide Carbon monosulfide is a chemical compound with the formula CS. This diatomic molecule is the sulfur analogue of carbon monoxide, and is unstable as a solid or a liquid, but it has been observed as a gas both in the laboratory and in the interste ...

, chemical formula CS

Computing

Computer science Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to practical disciplines (includin ...

, the scientific and practical approach to computation and its applications *

CS register The 8086 (also called iAPX 86) is a 16-bit microprocessor chip designed by Intel between early 1976 and June 8, 1978, when it was released. The Intel 8088, released July 1, 1979, is a slightly modified chip with an external 8-bit data bus (al ...

, or code segment register, in X86 computer architecture * Cable select, an ATA device setting for automatic master/slave configuration * Checkstyle, a Java static code analysis tool * Chip select, a control line in digital electronics * ChanServ, an IRC network service * Construction Set, a program for creating or editing PC games (i.e. The Elder Scrolls Construction Set) * '' Adobe Creative Suite'', a design and development software suite by Adobe Systems * C#, a general-purpose,

multi-paradigm programming language Programming paradigms are a way to classify programming languages based on their features. Languages can be classified into multiple paradigms. Some paradigms are concerned mainly with implications for the execution model of the language, suc ...

Mathematics

cs (elliptic function) In mathematics, the Jacobi elliptic functions are a set of basic elliptic functions. They are found in the description of the motion of a pendulum (see also pendulum (mathematics)), as well as in the design of electronic elliptic filters. While tri ...

, one of Jacobi's elliptic functions

Other uses in science and technology

* Carbon steel * Cirrostratus cloud *

Citizen science Citizen science (CS) (similar to community science, crowd science, crowd-sourced science, civic science, participatory monitoring, or volunteer monitoring) is scientific research conducted with participation from the public (who are sometimes re ...

* Compressed sensing, a signal processing technique for reconstructing a signal using underdetermined linear systems * Control segment, part of the structure of the Global Positioning System * Counter-scanning, a scanning method that allows correcting raster distortions * cS, another form for cSt, for centistokes, a unit of viscosity * CS gas, a riot control agent

Other uses

* Communication Skills *

Controlled substance A controlled substance is generally a drug or chemical whose manufacture, possession and use is regulated by a government, such as illicitly used drugs or prescription medications that are designated by law. Some treaties, notably the Sing ...

, generally a drug or chemical whose manufacture, possession, or use is regulated by a government * Cable Ship, in civilian ship names * Calgary Stampede, a rodeo * Caught stealing, a statistic in baseball * Chhatrapati Shivaji, c. 1627/1630 – 1680), Indian warrior king and member of the Bhonsle Maratha clan *

Christian Science Christian Science is a set of beliefs and practices associated with members of the Church of Christ, Scientist. Adherents are commonly known as Christian Scientists or students of Christian Science, and the church is sometimes informally know ...

, a religion * '' Cities: Skylines'', 2015 city-building simulation video game * ''Coke Studio'' (disambiguation), several musical television shows * '' Counter-Strike'', a series of video game first released as a 1999 modification for ''Half-Life'' * ''Cum Suis'' (Latin: "and associates"); see List of Latin phrases * Customer service, the provision of service to customers before, during and after a purchase and sale * Bombardier-Airbus C-Series, small jetliner *

Ferrari 360 Challenge Stradale The Ferrari 360 (Type F131) is a two-seater, mid-engine, rear wheel drive sports car manufactured by Italian automotive manufacturer Ferrari from 1999 until 2005. It succeeded the Ferrari F355 and was replaced by the Ferrari F430 in 2004. Devel ...