PSS may refer to:

Businesses and organizations

Government and military organizations

Palestinian Security Services The Palestinian Security Services (PSS) are the armed forces and intelligence agencies of the State of Palestine. They comprise twelve branches, notably the Security Forces, the civil police, the Presidential Guard and the national security ...

, the armed forces and intelligence agencies of the State of Palestine * Parliament Security Services, in charge of providing security to the Parliament of India *

Presidential Security Service (South Korea) Presidential Security Service (PSS; ) is a South Korean close protection agency. Modeled after the United States Secret Service, the South Korean PSS is an independent agency responsible for the protection of the president of South Korea, the Pri ...

, a South Korean close protection agency

Political parties

Sammarinese Socialist Party The Sammarinese Socialist Party (, PSS) was a socialist Socialism is an economic ideology, economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse Economic system, economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of ...

(), San Marino * Senegalese Socialist Party () *

Strength of Serbia Movement The Strength of Serbia Movement – BK ( sr-cyrl, Покрет снага Србије – БК, Pokret snaga Srbije – BK, abbr. PSS) is a conservative political party in Serbia. History Party was founded in 2004. Its founder and current l ...

(''Pokret snaga Srbije''), a political party in Serbia

Schools

Canada

Parkland Secondary School Parkland Secondary School is a public secondary school in North Saanich, a suburb of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. It is operated by School District 63 Saanich. It is one of three secondary schools in the school district and is located ...

, North Saanich, Victoria, British Columbia *

Penetanguishene Penetanguishene (, sometimes shortened to Penetang) is a town in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada. It is located on the southeasterly tip of Georgian Bay. Incorporated on February 22, 1882, this bilingual ( French and English) community has a popu ...

Secondary School, Simcoe County District School Board, Ontario * Penticton Secondary School, Penticton, British Columbia *

Pinetree Secondary School Pinetree Secondary School is a high school in School District 43 Coquitlam. It is located in Coquitlam, British Columbia across from Lafarge Lake, Town Centre Park and next to the David Lam Campus of Douglas College, Pinetree shares several fac ...

, Coquitlam, British Columbia * Parkview Secondary School, Hamilton, Ontario

Elsewhere

* Park Secondary School, Dudley, West Midlands * Popatlal Secondary School, Tanga, Tanzania

Other businesses and organizations

Price Stern Sloan Price Stern Sloan (originally known as Price/Stern/Sloan) or PSS! was a publisher (now an imprint of Penguin Random House) that was founded in Los Angeles in the early 1960s to publish the Mad Libs that Roger Price and Leonard Stern had concoc ...

, a publishing imprint of Penguin * Product Support Services, a Microsoft business unit * 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 PSS Społem is a Polish consumers' co-operative of local grocery stores, founded in 1868. During the Partitions of Poland, each of the branches of PSS Społem was formed under different conditions in law, economy and politics. The common characte ...

or PSS Społem, a Polish consumers' co-operative of local grocery stores * PSS (UK), a British social care charity *

Personal Software Services Personal Software Services (PSS) was a British software company based in Coventry, founded by Gary Mays and Richard Cockayne in 1981. The company was acquired by Mirrorsoft in 1987. PSS produced video games for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Ami ...

, a defunct British video game publisher

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

Perceived Stress Scale The Perceived Stress Scale was developed to measure the degree to which situations in one’s life are appraised as stressful. Psychological stress has been defined as the extent to which persons perceive (appraise) that their demands exceed the ...

, an instrument for measuring perceived stress in humans *

Porcine stress syndrome Porcine stress syndrome, also known as malignant hyperthermia or PSS, is a condition in pigs. It is characterised by hyperthermia triggered by stress, anaesthesia with halothane or intense exercise. PSS may appear as sudden death in pigs, often a ...

, a condition in pigs *

Portosystemic shunt A portosystemic shunt or portasystemic shunt (medical subject heading term; PSS), also known as a liver shunt, is a bypass of the liver by the body's circulatory system. It can be either a congenital (present at birth) or acquired condition and occ ...

, a disease found in humans, cats and dogs *

Progressive systemic sclerosis Systemic scleroderma, or systemic sclerosis, is an autoimmune rheumatic disease characterised by excessive production and accumulation of collagen, called fibrosis, in the skin and internal organs and by injuries to small arteries. There are two ...

, a rare chronic disease *

Psychosocial short stature Psychosocial short stature (PSS) is a growth disorder that is observed between the ages of 2 and 15, caused by extreme emotional deprivation or stress. The symptoms include decreased growth hormone (GH) and somatomedin secretion, very short s ...

, a growth disorder that is caused by extreme stress

Computing

Packet Switch Stream Packet Switch Stream (PSS) was a public data network in the United Kingdom, provided by British Telecommunications (BT). It operated from the late 1970s through to the mid-2000s. Research, development and implementation EPSS Roger Scantlebury ...

, a British packet-switched network *

Packet switching In telecommunications, packet switching is a method of grouping Data (computing), data into short messages in fixed format, i.e. ''network packet, packets,'' that are transmitted over a digital Telecommunications network, network. Packets consi ...

, a method of grouping data that is transmitted over a digital network into packets *

Panorama Software Sys-On-Line Microsoft is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various ...

Passenger service system A Passenger Service System or PSS is a network of software applications that help airlines manage all the passenger-related operations from ticketing to boarding. The PSS usually comprises an airline reservations system, an airline inventory 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 *

Physical symbol system A physical symbol system (also called a formal system) takes physical patterns (symbols), combining them into structures (expressions) and manipulating them (using processes) to produce new expressions. The physical symbol system hypothesis (PSSH ...

, a hypothesis in artificial intelligence research *

Power system simulator for engineering Power System Simulator for Engineering (PSS®E—often written as PSS/E) is a software tool used by power system engineers to simulate electrical power transmission networks in steady-state conditions as well as over timescales of a few seconds to ...

(PSS®E or PSS/E), software to simulate electrical power transmission networks *

Probabilistic signature scheme Probabilistic Signature Scheme (PSS) is a cryptographic signature scheme designed by Mihir Bellare and Phillip Rogaway. RSA-PSS is an adaptation of their work and is standardized as part of PKCS#1 v2.1. In general, RSA-PSS should be used as a re ...

, a secure way of creating signatures with RSA * Proportional set size, a measure of computer program memory use

Physics and chemistry

* Periodic steady-state analysis, type of simulation *''

Physica Status Solidi ''Physica Status Solidi'', often stylized ''physica status solidi'' or ''pss'', is a family of international peer-reviewed, scientific journals, publishing research on all aspects of solid state physics, and materials science. It is owned and publi ...

'', a family of academic journals focused on solid state physics *

Photostationary state The photostationary state of a reversible photochemical reaction is the equilibrium chemical composition under a specific kind of electromagnetic irradiation (usually a single wavelength of visible or UV radiation). It is a property of particu ...

, 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) * Practical Salinity Scale, the conductivity ratio of a sea water sample to a standard KCl solution

Other uses in technology

PSS silent pistol The PSS silent pistol or MSS "Vul" ("Вул") is a Soviet silent pistol operating on a sealed cartridge system. Operation Cartridge The PSS uses a specially developed 7.62×41 mm necked round SP-4 (СП-4), also used by the OTs-38 Stechk ...

, a Soviet-designed silent handgun *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

Sports teams and stadia

Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Stadium Pakiasothy Saravanamuttu Stadium (Tamil language, Tamil: பாக்கியசோதி சரவணமுத்து மைதானம், ) Colombo Oval or P. Sara or simply PSS is a multi-purpose stadium in Colombo, Sri Lanka. It is curr ...

, Colombo, Sri Lanka * Philippine Sports Stadium, Bocaue, Philippines *

PFC Septemvri Sofia Septemvri () is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Sofia, which currently competes in the Second League, the second tier of Bulgarian football. Its home ground is the Septemvri Stadium, but due to its poor condition the ...

, a Bulgarian football club * Porvoon Salibandyseura, a Finnish sports club *

PSS Sleman Perserikatan Sepakbola Sleman ( 'Sleman Football Union'), or mostly known through its abbreviation PSS, is an Indonesian professional football club based in Sleman Regency, Special Region of Yogyakarta. The club dons the nickname Super Elang Ja ...

, an Indonesian football club

Other uses

* Kaulong language (ISO 639:pss), an Austronesian language * Libertador General José de San Martín Airport (IATA code PSS), Posadas, Misiones, Argentina *Player Search System, how '' Pokémon X'' and ''Y'' players can connect to each other around the world *''

Project SuperStar ''Project SuperStar'' () is a singing talent search competition organised by MediaCorp and broadcast on Channel U in Singapore. Project SuperStar was organised to uncover and develop young talent in Mandarin pop in Singapore. Closely modelled ...

'' (abbreviated PSS), a Singaporean singing reality-competition franchise *

Product-service system Product-service systems (PSS) are business models that provide for cohesive delivery of products and services. PSS models are emerging as a means to enable collaborative consumption of both products and services, with the aim of pro-environmental ...

, a system of consumer access to products, as an alternative to personal product ownership *

Psalms The Book of Psalms ( , ; ; ; ; , in Islam also called Zabur, ), also known as the Psalter, is the first book of the third section of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) called ('Writings'), and a book of the Old Testament. The book is an anthology of B ...

, a book of the Hebrew Bible *PSS, a

ship prefix A ship prefix is a combination of letters, usually abbreviations, used in front of the name of a civilian or naval ship that has historically served numerous purposes, such as identifying the vessel's mode of propulsion, purpose, or ownership/na ...

meaning Palau State Ship * PSS Nkwen kidnapping, a 2008 kidnapping at Presbyterian Secondary School in Nkwen, near Bamenda, Cameroon * PSS-line, a fortified defense line in Finland during World War II; see Battle of Nietjärvi