APS or Aps or aps or similar may refer to:
Businesses and organizations
Businesses and public bodies
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Algeria Press Service
Algeria Press Service (APS; , , ) is a news agency based in Algeria. Its first hand-typed news with the national flag's colours was then taken up by all the foreign media of the time. It is a member of the Federation of Arab News Agencies.
Hist ...
, a news agency
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Arizona Public Service
Pinnacle West Capital Corporation is an American utility holding company that owns Arizona Public Service (APS). It is publicly traded on the New York Stock exchange and a component of the S&P 500 stock market index. APS is the largest utility co ...
, an electric power company
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Australian Protective Service
The Australian Protective Service (APS) was an Australian Commonwealth law enforcement agency which existed between October 1984 and June 2004. The APS was created by the separation of the Uniformed Protective Service component of the Australian F ...
, an Australian Commonwealth law enforcement agency
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Australian Public Service
The Australian Public Service (APS) is the federal civil service of the Commonwealth of Australia responsible for the public administration, public policy, and public services of the departments and executive and statutory agencies of the G ...
, the federal civil service of the Commonwealth of Australia
*ASTRA Platform Services, now
SES Platform Services
SES Platform Services GmbH (previously ASTRA Platform Services GmbH, later MX1, now part of SES Video) was a subsidiary company of SES (owner and operator of the Astra satellites) based in Betzdorf, Luxembourg. From its headquarters in Unterf ...
Education
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Abbottabad Public School
Abbottabad Public School (APS) (Urdu: ایبٹ آباد پبلک سکول; Pashto: ایبټ اباد پبلک سکول), formerly Railway Public School and Abbottabad Public School and College, is a public, all boys, boarding school for 7th to 12t ...
, in Pakistan
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Adarsh Public School, in India
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Alamogordo Public Schools, in New Mexico, U.S.
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Albuquerque Public Schools
Albuquerque Public Schools (APS) is a school district based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Founded in 1891, APS is the largest of 89 public school districts in the state of New Mexico. In 2022 it had a total of 143 schools with some 70,000 student ...
, in New Mexico, U.S.
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Allendale Public Schools, in Michigan, U.S.
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Arlington Public Schools
Arlington Public Schools is a public school division in Arlington County, Virginia. In 2019, student enrollment was 28,020 students, with students coming from more than 146 countries. In 2015, there were 2,166 teachers. There are 24 elementary ...
, in Virginia, U.S.
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Associated Public Schools of Victoria
The Associated Public Schools of Victoria (APS) are a group of eleven independent schools in Victoria, Australia, similar to the Athletic Association of the Great Public Schools in New South Wales, the Great Public Schools Association in Quee ...
, in Australia
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Atlanta Public Schools
Atlanta Public Schools (APS) is a school district based in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It is run by the Atlanta Board of Education with Superintendent Dr. Bryan Johnson. The system has an active enrollment of 54,956 students, attending ...
, in Georgia, U.S.
* Aurora Public Schools
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Aurora Public Schools (Colorado)
The Adams-Arapahoe 28J School District, more commonly known as the Aurora Public Schools, is a public school system in Aurora, Colorado, United States. There are 58 schools in the district: 4 early childhood education centers, 20 elementary sch ...
, in Colorado, U.S.
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East Aurora Public School District 131
East Aurora Public School District 131 (also known as Aurora Public Schools: East Side) is a public school district serving preschool through high school students in Aurora, Illinois, United States. It is considered the state's first public schoo ...
, in Illinois, U.S.
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West Aurora Public School District 129, in Illinois, U.S.
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Indian Army Public Schools
Indian Army Public Schools (APS) are chain of educational institutions under regional commands of Indian Army established for the purpose of providing education to the children of Indian armed forces personnel. With a nationwide presence spannin ...
Other organisations
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, a human rights group
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Alternative Press Syndicate
The Underground Press Syndicate (UPS), later known as the Alternative Press Syndicate (APS), was a network of counterculture of the 1960s, countercultural newspapers and magazines that operated from 1966 into the late 1970s. As it evolved, the Und ...
, a network of countercultural newspapers and magazines
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American Philatelic Society
The American Philatelic Society (APS) is the largest nonprofit stamp collecting foundation of philately in the world. Both the membership and interests of the society are worldwide.
History
The organization, originally named the ''American Phila ...
, a stamp collecting foundation
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American Philosophical Society
The American Philosophical Society (APS) is an American scholarly organization and learned society founded in 1743 in Philadelphia that promotes knowledge in the humanities and natural sciences through research, professional meetings, publicat ...
, an American scholarly organization
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American Physical Society
The American Physical Society (APS) is a not-for-profit membership organization of professionals in physics and related disciplines, comprising nearly fifty divisions, sections, and other units. Its mission is the advancement and diffusion of ...
, a not-for-profit membership organization
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American Physiological Society
The American Physiological Society is a non-profit professional society for physiologists. It has nearly 10,000 members, most of whom hold doctoral degrees in medicine, physiology, or other health professions. Its mission is to support research ...
, a non-profit professional society
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American Phytopathological Society
The American Phytopathological Society (APS) is an international scientific organization devoted to the study of plant diseases (phytopathology). APS promotes the advancement of modern concepts in the science of plant pathology and in plant heal ...
, an international scientific organization
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Armenian Professional Society The Armenian Professional Society is an organization that aims to better "fellowship among Armenian professionals", created in 1958. Membership requirements include a four-year degree from an accredited university
A university () is an educatio ...
, a membership organization
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Association for Psychological Science
The Association for Psychological Science (APS), previously the American Psychological Society, is an international non-profit organization whose mission is to promote, protect, and advance the interests of scientifically oriented psychology in r ...
, an international non-profit organization
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Association for Psychosocial Studies
The Association for Psychosocial Studies (APS) is a learned society in the United Kingdom dedicated to promoting the academic discipline of psychosocial studies. The association publishes an academic journal, ''The Journal of Psychosocial Studies'' ...
, a British learned society
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Australasian Proteomics Society
The Australasian Proteomics Society (APS) is a learned society formed in 2004 from the Lorne Proteomics Symposia (LPS) meetings. The APS was expanded to include the Australian Electrophoresis and Proteomics Society (a society formed in 1994 in Sydn ...
, a learned society
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Australian Psychological Society
The Australian Psychological Society (APS) is Australia's leading association for psychologists in Australia, with more than 25,000 members. APS works to improve the lives of Australians through psychology, working in diverse settings and sect ...
, a professional association
Places
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Alba-la-Romaine
Alba-la-Romaine (; ) is a commune in the Ardèche department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Southern France.
Geography
Alba-la-Romaine is located some 5 km west of Montélimar, Drôme on a mountain ridge overlooking the Rhône riv ...
, Ardèche, France, known as ''Aps'' until 1904
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Apsley railway station
Apsley railway station serves the village of Apsley, Hertfordshire, Apsley, on the southern outskirts of Hemel Hempstead, in Hertfordshire, England. It is of two railway stations now serving the town; the other is Hemel Hempstead railway statio ...
, England, station code APS
Science and technology
* Adenosine 5'-phosphosulfate, metabolic precursor to
3'-phosphoadenosine-5'-phosphosulfate
3′-Phosphoadenosine-5′-phosphosulfate (PAPS) is a derivative of adenosine monophosphate (AMP) that is phosphorylated at the 3′ position and has a sulfate group attached to the 5′ phosphate. It is the most common coenzyme in sulfotransfer ...
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Antiphospholipid syndrome
Antiphospholipid syndrome, or antiphospholipid antibody syndrome (APS or APLS), is an autoimmune, hypercoagulable state caused by antiphospholipid antibodies. APS can lead to blood clots (thrombosis) in both arteries and veins, pregnancy-relate ...
, an autoimmune state
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Autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome
Autoimmune polyendocrine syndromes (APSs), also called polyglandular autoimmune syndromes (PGASs) or polyendocrine autoimmune syndromes (PASs), are a heterogeneous group of rare diseases characterized by autoimmune activity against more than one e ...
, a rare disease
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Advanced Photon Source
The Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory (in Lemont, Illinois) is a storage-ring-based high-energy X-ray light source facility. It is one of five X-ray light sources owned and funded by the U.S. Department of Energy Office ...
, a synchrotron X-ray source at Argonne National Laboratory
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Advanced planning and scheduling
Advanced planning and scheduling (APS, also known as advanced manufacturing) refers to a manufacturing management process by which raw materials and production capacity are optimally allocated to meet demand. APS is especially well-suited to envi ...
, a manufacturing management process
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Algebra of physical space
Algebra is a branch of mathematics that deals with abstract systems, known as algebraic structures, and the manipulation of expressions within those systems. It is a generalization of arithmetic that introduces variables and algebraic ope ...
, in physics
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Ammonium persulfate
Ammonium persulfate (APS) is the inorganic compound with the formula (NH4)2S2O8. It is a colourless (white) salt that is highly soluble in water, much more so than the related potassium salt. It is a strong oxidizing agent that is used as a cataly ...
, in chemistry
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Apus
Apus is a small constellation in the Southern Celestial Hemisphere, southern sky. It represents a bird-of-paradise, and its name means "without feet" in Greek language, Greek because the bird-of-paradise was once wrongly believed to lack feet. ...
, abbreviation Aps, a constellation
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Application Packaging Standard, for integrating application software
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Active-pixel sensor
An active-pixel sensor (APS) is an image sensor, which was invented by Peter J.W. Noble in 1968, where each pixel sensor unit cell has a photodetector (typically a pinned photodiode) and one or more active transistors. In a metal–oxide–semico ...
, an image sensor
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Advanced Photo System
Advanced Photo System (APS) is a film format for consumer still photography first marketed in 1996 and discontinued in 2011. It was sold by various manufacturers under several brand names, including Eastman Kodak (Advantix), FujiFilm (Nexia), Agf ...
, a film format in photography
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Asynchronous Protocol Specification The X.445 is an ITU-T standard for sending X.400 traffic over standard telephone lines, a method known commonly as dial-up. It is also known as the ''Asynchronous Protocol Specification'' (APS).https://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia_term/0,1237,t=X445& ...
, or X.445, a telecommunications standard
* Atmospheric Plasma Spray, a
thermal spraying
Thermal spraying techniques are coating processes in which melted (or heated) materials are sprayed onto a surface. The "feedstock" (coating precursor) is heated by electrical (plasma or arc) or chemical means (combustion flame).
Thermal sprayi ...
technique
* Application support sublayer of the
Zigbee
Zigbee is an IEEE 802.15.4-based specification for a suite of high-level communication protocols used to create personal area networks with small, low-power digital radios, such as for home automation, medical device data collection, and oth ...
specification
* Accessible
Pedestrian Signal, a pedestrian crossing
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Alstom APS, electrical ground-level power supply for trams
* Auxiliary Propulsion System of the
S-IVB
The S-IVB (pronounced "S-four-B") was the third stage on the Saturn V and second stage on the Saturn IB launch vehicles. Built by the Douglas Aircraft Company, it had one J-2 rocket engine. For lunar missions it was fired twice: first for Earth ...
launch vehicle
Military
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APS underwater rifle
The APS underwater assault rifle () is an underwater firearm designed by the Soviet Union in the early 1970s. It was adopted in 1975. Made by the Tula Arms Plant () in Russia, it is exported by Rosoboronexport.
Under water, ordinary bullets a ...
, a Soviet firearm
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Active protection system
An active protection system (APS) is a system designed to actively prevent certain anti-tank weapons from destroying a vehicle.
Countermeasures that either conceal the vehicle from or disrupt the guidance of an incoming guided missile threat are ...
, for vehicles against missile attacks
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Africa Partnership Station
Africa Partnership Station (or APS) is an international initiative developed by United States Naval Forces Europe-Africa, which works cooperatively with U.S. and international partners to improve maritime safety and security in Africa as part of U ...
, a United States Navy maritime safety initiative
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Stechkin automatic pistol
The Stechkin or APS (''Avtomaticheskiy Pistolet Stechkina'' = ''Автоматический Пистолет Стечкина'') is a Soviet selective fire machine pistol that is chambered in 9×18mm Makarov and 9×19mm Parabellum.
History
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(''Avtomaticheskiy Pistolet Stechkina'')
* APS, a classification symbol
United States Navy amphibious warfare ships
Other uses
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Adult Protective Services
In the United States, Adult Protective Services (APS) is a government agency that investigates allegations of a vulnerable adult being or having been abused, neglected, or exploited by their caregivers. APS is typically administered by local or ...
, social services in the United States
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Advanced planning and scheduling
Advanced planning and scheduling (APS, also known as advanced manufacturing) refers to a manufacturing management process by which raw materials and production capacity are optimally allocated to meet demand. APS is especially well-suited to envi ...
, a manufacturing management process
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Annual Population Survey
The Annual Population Survey (APS) is a combined statistical survey of households in Great Britain which is conducted quarterly by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). It combines results from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) and the English ...
, a household survey in Great Britain
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Anpartsselskab
(; ApS) is the Danish term for a private limited company. ApS, when appended to the end of a Danish company name, is similar to Ltd. after the name of a British company. An ApS is required to have capital of at least 20,000 DKK (approx. 2, ...
'' (ApS), the Danish term for a limited liability company
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Average propensity to save
In Keynesian economics, the average propensity to save (APS), also known as the savings ratio, is the proportion of income which is saved, usually expressed for household savings as a fraction of total household disposable income (taxed income). ...
, in Keynesian economics
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Apse (disambiguation)
The apse or apsis or apside (plural: apses or apsides) are architectural features of churches
Apse or apsis or apses or apsides or apside or ''variation'', may also refer to:
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AP (disambiguation)
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