NS as an abbreviation can mean:

Arts and entertainment

Gaming

* ''Natural Selection'' (video game), a mod for the game ''Half-life'' * '' NetStorm: Islands At War'', a real-time strategy game published in 1997 by Activision * Nintendo Switch, a hybrid video game console and handheld. * Jennifer Government: NationStates, a web-based simulation game

Literature

* ''

New Spring ''New Spring'' is a fantasy novel by American author Robert Jordan, a prequel in the ''Wheel of Time'' series. ''New Spring'' consists of 26 chapters and an epilogue. Background to publication "New Spring" was originally published as a novell ...

'' (known to fans as "NS"), a 1999 anthology edited by Robert Silverberg and derivative 2004 novella by Robert Jordan * NS-series robots from the book ''

I, Robot ''I, Robot'' is a fixup (compilation) novel of science fiction short stories or essays by American writer Isaac Asimov. The stories originally appeared in the American magazines ''Super Science Stories'' and '' Astounding Science Fiction'' be ...

Companies

National Semiconductor National Semiconductor was an American semiconductor manufacturer which specialized in analog devices and subsystems, formerly with headquarters in Santa Clara, California. The company produced power management integrated circuits, display dr ...

(also known as "Natsemi"), an American integrated circuit design and manufacturing company *

Nederlandse Spoorwegen Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS; ; en, "Dutch Railways") is the principal passenger railway operator in the Netherlands. It is a Dutch state-owned company founded in 1938. The Dutch rail network is one of the busiest in the European Union, and t ...

, the main public transport railway company in the Netherlands * Norfolk Southern Railway, a major Class I railroad in the United States, owned by the Norfolk Southern Corporation *

Norfolk Southern Railway (1942–1982) The Norfolk Southern Railway(1881-1982) was the final name of a railroad that ran from Norfolk, Virginia, southwest and west to Charlotte, North Carolina. It was acquired by the Southern Railway in 1974, which merged with the Norfolk and Western ...

, the final name of a railroad running in Virginia and North Carolina before its acquisition by the Southern Railway in 1974

Government and politics

* ''

Nasjonal Samling Nasjonal Samling (, NS; ) was a Norwegian far-right political party active from 1933 to 1945. It was the only legal party of Norway from 1942 to 1945. It was founded by former minister of defence Vidkun Quisling and a group of supporters such ...

'', a 1930s Norwegian national socialist political party *

National service National service is the system of voluntary government service, usually military service. Conscription is mandatory national service. The term ''national service'' comes from the United Kingdom's National Service (Armed Forces) Act 1939. The ...

, a name for the conscription system of some militaries * "National Socialism" or

Nazism Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) i ...

, the ideology held by, amongst many other political parties, the National Socialist German Workers Party *

New Serbia (political party) New Serbia ( sr-cyrl, Нова Србија, Nova Srbija, NS) is a right-wing political party in Serbia. It was established in 1998 by a group of dissidents led by Velimir Ilić from the Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO). History New Serbia was ...

(''Nova Srbija''), a political party in Serbia * People's Party (''Narodna stranka''), a political party in Serbia *

New Slovenia New Slovenia – Christian Democrats ( sl, Nova Slovenija – Krščanski demokrati, NSi) is a Christian-democratic, conservative political party in Slovenia. Since 2018, it is led by Matej Tonin. The party was formed on 4 August 2000 following ...

(also known as ''Nova Slovenija - Krscanski Ljudska Stranka''), a right-of-centre political party in Slovenia *

People's Party (Montenegro) The People's Party ( sr, Народна странка, Narodna Stranka, abbr. НС/NS) was a conservative political party in Montenegro. History The party was established in 1990, after a multi-party system was introduced in Montenegro, and was ...

(''Narodna Stranka''), a political party in the Republic of Montenegro

Places

* Negeri Sembilan, one of the fourteen states in Malaysia *

Novi Sad Novi Sad ( sr-Cyrl, Нови Сад, ; hu, Újvidék, ; german: Neusatz; see below for other names) is the second largest city in Serbia and the capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina. It is located in the southern portion of the Pan ...

, a city in Serbia (license plate code) *

Nova Scotia Nova Scotia ( ; ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic provinces. Nova Scotia is Latin for "New Scotland". Most of the population are native Eng ...

, as the official Canadian postal abbreviation for the province

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

Nervous system In biology, the nervous system is the highly complex part of an animal that coordinates its actions and sensory information by transmitting signals to and from different parts of its body. The nervous system detects environmental changes ...

, the system of neurons that coordinates the actions of an organism *

Normal saline Saline (also known as saline solution) is a mixture of sodium chloride (salt) and water. It has a number of uses in medicine including cleaning wounds, removal and storage of contact lenses, and help with dry eyes. By injection into a vein i ...

, a solution of sodium chloride used in intravenous drips

Computing

Name server A name server refers to the server component of the Domain Name System (DNS), one of the two principal namespaces of the Internet. The most important function of DNS servers is the translation (resolution) of human-memorable domain names (example ...

, a computer server that implements a name service protocol **

NS record NS as an abbreviation can mean: Arts and entertainment Gaming * ''Natural Selection'' (video game), a mod for the game ''Half-life'' * '' NetStorm: Islands At War'', a real-time strategy game published in 1997 by Activision * Nintendo Switch, a ...

, a DNS record type *

Namespace In computing, a namespace is a set of signs (''names'') that are used to identify and refer to objects of various kinds. A namespace ensures that all of a given set of objects have unique names so that they can be easily identified. Namespaces ...

, an abstract container used in computing * Neighbor Solicitation, part of IPv6's

Neighbor Discovery Protocol The Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP), or simply Neighbor Discovery (ND), is a protocol of the Internet protocol suite used with Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6). It operates at the link layer of the Internet model, and is responsible for gat ...

NeXTSTEP NeXTSTEP is a discontinued object-oriented, multitasking operating system based on the Mach kernel and the UNIX-derived BSD. It was developed by NeXT Computer in the late 1980s and early 1990s and was initially used for its range of propri ...

, an object-oriented, multitasking operating system by NeXT, as well as a prefix for certain system-provided classes in the operating system, such as "NSString" *

ns (simulator) ns (from network simulator) is a name for a series of discrete event network simulators, specifically ns-1, ns-2, and ns-3. All are discrete-event computer network simulators, primarily used in research and teaching. History ns-1 The fi ...

(or "ns-2"), an open source network simulator

Mathematics

ns (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 ...

, one of Jacobi's elliptic functions

Other uses in science and technology

Nanosecond A nanosecond (ns) is a unit of time in the International System of Units (SI) equal to one billionth of a second, that is, of a second, or 10 seconds. The term combines the SI prefix ''nano-'' indicating a 1 billionth submultiple of an SI unit ( ...

(abbreviated "ns"), a measure of time *

Nanostructure A nanostructure is a structure of intermediate size between microscopic and molecular structures. Nanostructural detail is microstructure at nanoscale. In describing nanostructures, it is necessary to differentiate between the number of dimens ...

Neutron star A neutron star is the collapsed core of a massive supergiant star, which had a total mass of between 10 and 25 solar masses, possibly more if the star was especially metal-rich. Except for black holes and some hypothetical objects (e.g. w ...

, a star formed from the collapsed remnant of a massive star * New Shepard 3 (NS3), a reusable launch vehicle from Blue Origin, being tested in 2017-18 *

Newton second The newton-second (also newton second; symbol: N⋅s or N s) is the unit of impulse in the International System of Units (SI). It is dimensionally equivalent to the momentum unit kilogram-metre per second (kg⋅m/s). One newton-secon ...

, the SI derived unit for momentum * Not significant, when differences between categories are smaller than the amount of error/noise in the data, see Statistical significance * Nuclear Ship (NS), a ship prefix for civilian ship names * Norsk Standard, Norwegian Standard, Standards defined by Standard Norge

Other uses

* National school (Ireland), a type of school *

New Style Old Style (O.S.) and New Style (N.S.) indicate dating systems before and after a calendar change, respectively. Usually, this is the change from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar as enacted in various European countries between 158 ...

(as "N.S." in opposition to Old Style as "O.S."), indicating ''either'' a date in the Julian Calendar with the start of year adjusted to 1 January, or a date in the Gregorian calendar {{disambiguation