GS may stand for:

Businesses and organizations

* Goldman Sachs, one of the world's largest global investment banks * Global Star Software, a former Canadian video game publisher *

GS (Swedish union) GS is a trade union in Sweden representing workers in the media, forestry and woodworking industries. History The union was established on 1 June 2009 through the merging of Swedish Forest and Wood Workers' Union and Swedish Graphic Workers' ...

, a trade union in Sweden *

GS Group GS Group is a South Korean conglomerate. GS comprises GS Holdings, subsidiaries & affiliates including GS Caltex, GS Retail, GS Shop, GS EPS, GS Global, GS Sports and GS E&C among others. The asset size is 65.4 trillion KRW at the end of 2019 ...

, a Korean company that is a spin-off from the LG Group *

Columbia University School of General Studies The School of General Studies, Columbia University (GS) is a liberal arts college and one of the undergraduate colleges of Columbia University, situated on the university's main campus in Morningside Heights, New York City. GS is known primarily ...

, one of three undergraduate colleges at Columbia University in New York City *

Tianjin Airlines : ''See Grand China Air for the holding company of Hainan Airlines.'' Tianjin Airlines ( —formerly Grand China Express Air) is a Chinese airline headquartered in Tianjin Binhai International Airport passenger terminal building, Dongli District, ...

, by IATA code

Music

GS Boyz GS Boyz (explicitly G-Spot Boyz) are an American hip hop group from Arlington, Texas, formed in 2005. The group gained national popularity and sold over 1 million records under Sony Music, RCA Records, and MWN Music Group after nationally distr ...

(explicitly G-Spot Boyz), an American hip hop group from Arlington, Texas,

Places

* Gansu, a province of China (Guobiao abbreviation GS) *

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(ISO country code GS), a British Overseas Territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

* G_s alpha subunit, a subtype of G-protein coupled receptors *

Gilbert's syndrome Gilbert syndrome (GS) is a syndrome in which the liver of affected individuals processes bilirubin more slowly than the majority. Many people never have symptoms. Occasionally jaundice (a slight yellowish color of the skin or whites of the eyes) ...

, a liver enzyme disorder which can cause elevated levels of serum bilirubin *

Gitelman syndrome Gitelman syndrome (GS) is an autosomal recessive kidney tubule disorder characterized by low blood levels of potassium and magnesium, decreased excretion of calcium in the urine, and elevated blood pH. The disorder is caused by disease-causing ...

, an autosomal recessive kidney tubule disorder * Geopathic stress, a pseudoscientific condition

Computing

* GS, a group separator character in the C0 control code set *

.gs .gs is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. .gs is a member of CoCCA, a group of country-code domains making use of common registry and/or dispute resolution services. .gs is a ...

, Internet country code top-level domain of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands *

GS register x86 (also known as 80x86 or the 8086 family) is a family of complex instruction set computer (CISC) instruction set architectures initially developed by Intel based on the Intel 8086 microprocessor and its 8088 variant. The 8086 was intr ...

, in the X86 computer architecture *

Ghostscript Ghostscript is a suite of software based on an interpreter for Adobe Systems' PostScript and Portable Document Format (PDF) page description languages. Its main purposes are the rasterization or rendering of such page description language file ...

, a free software suite for handling PostScript and Portable Document Format (PDF) files *

Apple IIGS The Apple IIGS (styled as II), the fifth and most powerful of the Apple II family, is a 16-bit personal computer produced by Apple Computer. While featuring the Macintosh look and feel, and resolution and color similar to the Amiga and Atari ST ...

, the most powerful model in the Apple II computer line

Other uses in science and technology

* GS, the METAR reporting code for graupe or hail smaller than in diameter *

Roland GS Roland GS, or just GS, sometimes expanded as General Standard or General Sound, is a MIDI specification. It requires that all GS-compatible equipment must meet a certain set of features and it documents interpretations of some MIDI commands and byt ...

, an extension of General MIDI electronic musical instruments' specification by Roland Corporation * g-force, measure in "g's" *

Geprüfte Sicherheit The ''Geprüfte Sicherheit'' ("Tested Safety") or ''GS'' mark is a voluntary certification mark A certification mark (or conformity mark) on a commercial product indicates the existence of an accepted product standard or regulation and a cl ...

, a safety mark appearing on technical equipment *

Glide slope Instrument landing system glide path, commonly referred to as a glide path (G/P) or glide slope (G/S), is "a system of vertical guidance embodied in the instrument landing system which indicates the vertical deviation of the aircraft from its o ...

, part of the instrument landing system used by aircraft *

Ground segment A ground segment consists of all the ground-based elements of a space system used by operators and support personnel, as opposed to the space segment and user segment. The ground segment enables management of a spacecraft, and distribution of pay ...

, in space systems

Sports

* Galatasaray S.K., a Turkish sports club *

Games started In baseball statistics, games started (denoted by GS) indicates the number of games that a pitcher has started for his team. A pitcher is credited with starting the game if he throws the first pitch to the first opposing batter. If a player is li ...

, a baseball statistic *

Giant Slalom skiing Giant slalom (GS) is an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding discipline. It involves skiing between sets of poles ("gates") spaced at a greater distance from each other than in slalom but less than in Super-G. Giant slalom and slalom make up ...

, an alpine skiing discipline *

Goal shooter Netball is a ball sport for two teams of seven players; its rules are published in print and online by the International Netball Federation. Games are played on a rectangular court divided into thirds, with a raised goal at each short end. The ob ...

, a position in netball * Golden State Warriors, a professional NBA basketball team based in Oakland, California * GS Pétroliers (handball), an Algerian handball team

Vehicles

Automobiles

Citroën GS The GS is a front-engine, front-drive, four or five door, five passenger family car manufactured and marketed by Citroën in two series: for model years 1970-1979 in fastback saloon and estate bodystyles and subsequently as the GSA for model yea ...

, a French compact car lineup *

Geely Emgrand GS The Geely Emgrand S and the original Geely Emgrand GS is a compact crossover produced by Chinese auto brand Geely under the Emgrand brand. The original design of the Emgrand GS production car launched in 2016 was previewed by the Emgrand Cross ...

, a Chinese compact crossover *

Lexus GS The is an executive car sold by Lexus, the premium division of Toyota. The same car had been launched in 1991 as the Toyota Aristo in Japan. For non-Japanese markets, it was released as the Lexus GS in February 1993. It continued using the Toyo ...

, a Japanese executive sedan *

MG GS The MG GS is the first sports utility vehicle (SUV) to be produced by MG Motor at its plant in China. It was launched at the Auto Shanghai Motor Show in April 2015. About The GS was launched at the Auto Shanghai Motor Show in April 2015, it ...

, a British compact SUV

Trim lines

Buick Gran Sport The Gran Sport name has been used on several high-performance cars built by General Motors for its Buick brand since 1965. In the GM brands hierarchy, Buick was surpassed in luxury and comfort appointments only by Cadillac, which did not produce ...

, an American high-performance sports package series *

Toyota G Sports The Toyota G Sports or G's is a range of enhancements to some cars manufactured by Toyota. The enhancements include body kits, interiors, wheels, suspension, and drive-line components. In 2016, the G's lineup was changed to Toyota GR Sport, GR Spor ...

, a Japanese high-performance package series

Motorcycles

BMW GS The BMW GS series of one purpose off-road/on-road BMW motorcycles have been produced from 1980, when the R80G/S was launched, to the present day. The GS refers to either Gelände/Straße (German: off-road/road) or Gelände Sport. GS motorcycles c ...

, a German dual purpose off-road/on-road motorcycle series * Suzuki GS series, a Japanese road motorcycle series

Other uses

* Gagasan Sejahtera, an informal coalition of opposition Islamist political parties in Malaysia *

General Schedule (US civil service pay scale) The General Schedule (GS) is the predominant pay scale within the United States civil service. The GS includes the majority of white collar personnel (professional, technical, administrative, and clerical) positions. , 71 percent of federal civil ...

, a prefix designating a pay grade in the US civil service *

Group Sounds , often abbreviated as GS, is a genre of Japanese rock music which became popular in the mid to late 1960s and initiated the fusion of Japanese '' kayōkyoku'' music and Western rock music. Their music production techniques were regarded as playi ...

, a genre of Japanese music * ''

Pokémon Gold and Silver and are 1999 role-playing video games developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Color. They are the first installments in the second generation of the Pokémon (video game series), ''Pokémon'' video game series. The ...

'', installments of the Pokémon series of video games