GOS may refer to:

Science and technology

gOS (operating system) gOS or "good OS" was an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution created by Good OS LLC, a Los Angeles-based corporation. Its CIO David Liu described that after meeting Enlightenment and open source people, he realized that his dream to bring Web 2.0 a ...

, a Linux distribution *

Gadolinium oxysulfide Gadolinium oxysulfide ( Gd2 O2 S), also called gadolinium sulfoxylate, GOS or Gadox, is an inorganic compound, a mixed oxide-sulfide of gadolinium. Uses The main use of gadolinium oxysulfide is in ceramic scintillators. Scintillators are used ...

, an inorganic compound *

Galactooligosaccharide Galactooligosaccharides (GOS), also known as oligogalactosyllactose, oligogalactose, oligolactose or transgalactooligosaccharides (TOS), belong to the group of prebiotics. Prebiotics are defined as non-digestible food ingredients that beneficial ...

, carbohydrates found in milk * Geographical Operations System, mapping and database software for telecommunications companies * Global Ocean Sampling Expedition, an expedition assessing the genetic diversity in marine microbial communities *

Grade of service In telecommunication engineering, and in particular teletraffic engineering, the quality of voice service is specified by two measures: the grade of service (GoS) and the quality of service (QoS). Grade of service is the probability of a call in a ...

, a probability used in telecommunications to express the quality of voice service * Grid-oriented storage, a dedicated data storage architecture for grid computers *

Galactic O star catalogue An astronomical catalogue is a list or tabulation of astronomical objects, typically grouped together because they share a common type, morphology, origin, means of detection, or method of discovery. Astronomical catalogs are usually the result of ...

, an astronomical catalogue *

Glasgow Outcome Scale The Glasgow Outcome Score (GOS) is a scale of patients with brain injuries, such as cerebral traumas that groups victims by the objective degree of recovery. The first description was in 1975 by Jennett and Bond. __TOC__ Application The Glasgo ...

, for cerebral trauma

Other uses

Gos (bird) The northern goshawk (; ''Accipiter gentilis'') is a species of medium-large bird of prey, raptor in the Family (biology), family Accipitridae, a family which also includes other extant diurnal raptors, such as eagles, buzzards and harrier (bird) ...

, also known as the northern goshawk *

Gos (Fils) Gos is a -long river of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is a tributary of the Fils near Bad Ditzenbach. See also *List of rivers of Baden-Württemberg A list of rivers of Baden-Württemberg, Germany: A * Aal * Aalbach * Aalenbach * Ablac ...

, a river of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, tributary of the Fils *

General ophthalmic services Ophthalmology ( ) is a surgical subspecialty within medicine that deals with the diagnosis and treatment of eye disorders. An ophthalmologist is a physician who undergoes subspecialty training in medical and surgical eye care. Following a medic ...

, health care services for the eyes *

Georgia Ornithological Society The Georgia Ornithological Society is the principal birding and bird conservation organization in the American state of Georgia. History The Georgia Ornithological Society (GOS) was founded by a group of 22 people from the Atlanta Birding Club ...

, in Georgia, United States *

Gloucestershire Old Spots The Gloucestershire Old Spots (also "Gloucester, Gloucester Old Spot, Gloucestershire Old Spot" or simply "Old Spots") is an English breed of pig which is predominantly white with black spots. It is named after the county of Gloucestershire. T ...

, a breed of domestic pig *

Government Office A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state. In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is a ...

(GOs), government offices in regions of England *

Grange-over-Sands railway station Grange-over-Sands is a town and civil parish located on the north side of Morecambe Bay in Cumbria, England, a few miles south of the Lake District National Park. In the 2001 census the parish had a population of 4,042, increasing at the 20 ...

, in England *

Green Oasis School Green Oasis School () is an international school in Tianmian Village (), Futian District, Shenzhen. GOS is a year 1-6 primary school that is open to both local and expatriate children aged 5 to 10. The school follows an adapted version of the U ...

, in Shenzhen, China *

Gronings dialect Gronings (; gos, Grunnegs or Grönnegs), is a collective name for some Friso-Saxon dialects spoken in the province of Groningen and around the Groningen border in Drenthe and Friesland. Gronings and the strongly related varieties in East Fri ...

of Low German *

Gross operating surplus In the national accounts, gross operating surplus (GOS) is the portion of income derived from production by incorporated enterprises that are earned by the capital factor. It is calculated as a balancing item in the generation of income account of ...

, the surplus due to owners of incorporated businesses * Somersby Airfield, IATA airport code "GOS" {{Disambiguation