AOS, Aos or AoS may refer to:

Military, police and government

Armed Offenders Squad The Armed Offenders Squad (AOS) are specialist part-time units of the New Zealand Police based around the country available to respond to high risk incidents using specialist tactics and equipment. The AOS was established when front-line poli ...

, a branch of the New Zealand Police * Armed Offenders Squad (Victoria), a disbanded branch of the Victorian Police in Australia *

Amook Bay Seaplane Base Amook Bay Seaplane Base is a privately owned seaplane base located in Amook Bay, Alaska, Amook Bay, a community in the Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska, Kodiak Island Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. Although classified by the FAA as "private ...

(IATA code AOS) *

Adjustment of status Adjustment of status in the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) of the United States refers to the legal process of conferring permanent residency upon any alien who is a refugee, asylee, nonpermanent resident, conditional entrant, parolee, a ...

, an immigration concept in the United States

Schools and education

* Academy of the Sierras, boarding schools devoted to weight loss * The Alice Ottley School, Worcester, England *

AO Springfield The Royal Grammar School Worcester (also known as RGS Worcester and RGSW) is an 11-18 co-educational, private day school and sixth form in Worcester, Worcestershire, England. Founded before 1291, it is one of the oldest British independent day ...

School, Worcester, England *

Associate of Occupational Studies An associate degree or associate's degree is an undergraduate degree awarded after a course of post-secondary study lasting two to three years. It is a level of academic qualification above a high school diploma and below a bachelor's degree. ...

, a two-year college degree * Annunciation Orthodox School, a Greek Orthodox private school in Houston, Texas * Loudoun Academy of Science, a high school STEM program in Loudoun County, Virginia

Science and academia

* Accessory olfactory system, a second sense of smell in some animals * ''

Accounting, Organizations and Society ''Accounting, Organizations and Society'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Elsevier. Its editors-in-chief are Marcia Annisette (Schulich School of Business), Martin Messner (University of Innsbruck), and Hun-Tong Tan (Nanyang Techn ...

'', an academic journal * Acquisition of signal, in spacecraft communications *

Agricultural Ontology Service Agricultural Information Management Standards (AIMS) is a web site managed by the Food and Agriculture Organization, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) for accessing and discussing agricultural information management st ...

* α-Olefin sulfonate, a surfactant *

American Oriental Society The American Oriental Society is a learned society that encourages basic research in the languages and literatures of the Near East and Asia. It was chartered under the laws of Massachusetts on September 7, 1842. It is one of the oldest learned ...

, a learned society *

American Ornithological Society The American Ornithological Society (AOS) is an ornithological organization based in the United States. The society was formed in October 2016 by the merger of the American Ornithologists' Union (AOU) and the Cooper Ornithological Society. Its ...

* Angle of sideslip *

Apraxia of speech Apraxia of speech (AOS), also called verbal apraxia, is a speech sound disorder affecting an individual's ability to translate conscious speech plans into motor plans, which results in limited and difficult speech ability. By the definition of a ...

, a speech sound disorder *

Area of Search Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) in the United Kingdom are areas of conservation (ethic), conservation, consisting of protected areas, recognised for their biological or geological significance. In Northern Ireland an SSSI is called an ...

, a geographical region used in the selection of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in the UK * Adams–Oliver syndrome, a congenital disorder

Popular culture

* ''

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ''Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' is an American television series created by Joss Whedon, Jed Whedon, and Maurissa Tancharoen for ABC based on the Marvel Comics organization S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement, ...

'', an American television series set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe * ''Ace of Spades'' (video game) * Ace of Spades HQ, a political blog * ''

Aeon of Strife Multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) is a subgenre of strategy video games in which two teams of players compete on a structured battlefield, each controlling a single character with distinctive abilities that grow stronger as the match progr ...

'', an early multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) * ''Age of Sail'' (computer game) ** '' Age of Sail II'', its sequel * '' Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow'', a game for the Game Boy Advance * "AOS" (song), 1970, by Yoko Ono, featuring Ornette Coleman * ''

All-Out Sundays ''All-Out Sundays'' (also known as ''AOS'' or ''AyOS'') is a Philippine television variety show broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Miggy Tanchanco, it was originally starred by Alden Richards, Julie Anne San Jose, Rayver Cruz, Ken Chan, Ri ...

'', a Philippine GMA Network Sunday variety show * ''

Warhammer Age of Sigmar ''Warhammer Age of Sigmar'' is a miniature wargame produced by Games Workshop that simulates battles between armies by using miniature figurines. Games are typically played on a relatively flat surface such as a dining table, bespoke gaming ta ...

'', a tabletop wargame

Technology

* Academic Operating System, a version of 4.3 BSD Unix for the IBM RT * Algebraic operating system, an input method used on many Texas Instruments calculators *

AmigaOS AmigaOS is a family of proprietary native operating systems of the Amiga and AmigaOne personal computers. It was developed first by Commodore International and introduced with the launch of the first Amiga, the Amiga 1000, in 1985. Early versions ...

* Apple Online Store, the retail web site for Apple Inc. *

Array of structures In computing, an array of structures (AoS), structure of arrays (SoA) or array of structures of arrays (AoSoA) are contrasting ways to arrange a sequence of records in memory, with regard to interleaving, and are of interest in SIMD and SIMT pro ...

, an interleaved data format * Data General AOS (Advanced Operating System) * A2, an operating system formerly named Active Object System (AOS) *

Fedora AOS Fedora Linux is a Linux distribution developed by the Fedora Project. It was originally developed in 2003 as a continuation of the Red Hat Linux project. It contains software distributed under various free and open-source licenses and aims to be ...

(Appliance Operating System), a small version of the Fedora Linux project * aos or AOS, acronym of "anonymous operating system", an earlier name for the operating system Whonix

People

Austin Osman Spare Austin Osman Spare (30 December 1886 – 15 May 1956) was an English artist and occultism, occultist who worked as both a draughtsman and a painter. Influenced by Symbolism (arts), symbolism and Art Nouveau, his art was known for its clear use o ...