AVS or Avs may refer to:

People

AVS (actor) Amanchi Venkata Subrahmanyam (2 January 1957 – 8 November 2013), better known and credited by his initials AVS, was an Indian actor, comedian, producer, director, and journalist known for his works in Telugu cinema. A.V.S. was known particula ...

, Indian actor and comedian

Sports

AVS Futebol SAD AVS Futebol SAD is a Portuguese professional football club currently playing in the Liga Portugal Betclic (the first tier of the Portuguese football league system). They are based in the town of Vila das Aves, and play in Estádio do CD Aves. F ...

, an association football club in Vila das Aves, Portugal *

Colorado Avalanche The Colorado Avalanche (colloquially known as the Avs) are a professional ice hockey team based in Denver. The Avalanche compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Central Division (NHL), Central Division in the Western Con ...

, an NHL hockey team

Schools

* Abbey Vocational School, a secondary school in County Donegal, Ireland *

Amman Valley School Ysgol Dyffryn Aman ( Amman Valley School) is a bilingual ( Welsh and English) comprehensive school and sixth form in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, Wales. It is situated on Margaret Street in the north of Ammanford town centre. The school has appro ...

, a bilingual (Welsh and English) secondary school in Wales

Science

American Vacuum Society AVS: Science and Technology of Materials, Interfaces, and Processing (formally the American Vacuum Society, Inc.) is a professional and scientific society founded in 1953 as a committee on vacuum technology. The AVS supports networking among its ...

, a member society of the American Institute of Physics, now known only as AVS *

Angle of Vanishing Stability In sailing, the limit of positive stability (LPS) or angle of vanishing stability (AVS) is the angle from the vertical at which a boat will no longer stay upright but will capsize, becoming inverted, or turtled. For example, if a boat with an ...

, the angle at which a boat will capsize *

Acid volatile sulfide Simultaneously extracted metals/Acid-volatile sulfide (SEM-AVS) is an approach used in the field of aquatic toxicology to assess the potential for metal ions found in sediment to cause toxic effects in organisms dwelling in the sediment. In this ap ...

Audio video

Audio Video Standard Audio Video Coding Standard (AVS) refers to the digital audio and digital video series compression standard formulated by the Audio and Video coding standard workgroup of China. Work began in 2002, and three generations of standards were publish ...

, a Chinese multimedia standard * Auditory Visual Stimulation, a controversial princip of the called

Mind machine A mind machine (aka ''brain machine'' or ''light and sound machine'') uses pulsing rhythmic sound, flashing light, or a combination of these. Mind machines can Induced activity, induce deep states of relaxation or concentration. The process app ...

, or psychowalkman

Hardware

Adaptive voltage scaling Adaptive voltage scaling (AVS) is a control theory, closed-loop dynamic power minimization technique that adjusts the voltage supplied to a computer chip to match the chip's power needs during operation. Many computer chips, especially those in mobi ...

, Adaptive Voltage Scaling as power optimization techniques

Software

Advanced Visualization Studio Advanced Visualization Studio (AVS), is a music visualization plugin for Winamp. It was designed by Winamp creator, Justin Frankel and was first shipped in version 2.0a4 with Winamp 2.61. ''AVS'' has a customizable design which allows users to ...

, a music visualization plugin for Winamp *

Alexa Voice Service Amazon Alexa is a virtual assistant technology marketed by Amazon and implemented in software applications for smart phones, tablets, wireless smart speakers, and other electronic appliances. Alexa was largely developed from a Polish speech syn ...

, a cloud-based voice recognition service *

AOL Active Virus Shield AOL Active Virus Shield (commonly referred to as AVS) was a free antivirus utility made available by AOL. Its engine was based on the one used by Kaspersky Anti-Virus. The program is no longer available. Features Active Virus Shield includes nu ...

, a discontinued free antivirus utility made available by AOL *

AviSynth AviSynth is a frameserver program for Microsoft Windows, Linux and macOS initially developed by Ben Rudiak-Gould, Edwin van Eggelen, Klaus Post, Richard Berg and Ian Brabham in May 2000 and later picked up and maintained by the open source commu ...

, a script-based frameserver * Cisco application

virtual switch Network functions virtualization (NFV) is a network architecture concept that leverages IT virtualization technologies to virtualize entire classes of network node functions into building blocks that may connect, or chain together, to create and de ...

Verification systems

Address verification service An address verification service (AVS) is a service provided by major credit card processors to enable merchants to Credit card hijacking, authenticate ownership of a credit or debit card used by a customer. AVS is done as part of the merchant's ...

, a security measure in credit card processing *

Adult Verification System An age verification system, also known as an age gate, is any technical system that externally verifies a person's age. These systems are used primarily to restrict access to content classified, either voluntarily or by local laws, as being inappr ...

, a system used by websites to confirm that someone accessing their site is of the age of majority

Other uses

* ''Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra'', known in English as the

Greens and Left Alliance The Greens and Left Alliance (, AVS) is a left-wing political alliance active in Italy, which was launched on 2 July 2022 as a federation of two political parties, Italian Left (SI) and Green Europe (EV). The AVS is often referred to as a red– ...

, an Italian electoral coalition composed of two political parties:

Italian Left Italian Left (, SI) is a left-wing political party in Italy. SI was launched in November 2015 as a parliamentary group in the Chamber of Deputies (full name: Italian Left – Left Ecology Freedom), including Left Ecology Freedom (SEL), dissid ...

and

Green Europe Green Europe (, EV), officially Green Europe – Greens (''Europa Verde – Verdi''), is a green Green is the color between cyan and yellow on the visible spectrum. It is evoked by light which has a dominant wavelength of roughly 4 ...

. *

American Viola Society The American Viola Society (AVS) is an organization headquartered in Dallas, Texas that encourages excellence in performance, pedagogy, research, composition, and lutherie by fostering communication and friendship among violists of all skill levels, ...

, an organization of viola players and enthusiasts *

American Vegan Society The American Vegan Society (AVS) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that promotes veganism in the United States. It was founded in 1960 by H. Jay Dinshah. The date of the earlier The Vegan Society (UK)'s founding, November 1, is now celebr ...

, an organization that promotes veganism in the United States *

Atharvaveda The Atharvaveda or Atharva Veda (, , from ''wikt:अथर्वन्, अथर्वन्'', "priest" and ''wikt:वेद, वेद'', "knowledge") or is the "knowledge storehouse of ''wikt:अथर्वन्, atharvans'', the proced ...

, aka Atharvaveda-Shaunakiya, a sacred Hindu text *

AVS-36 The AVS-36 (; ''Avtomaticheskaya vintovka Simonova obraztsa 1936 goda (AVS-36)''; "''Automatic rifle Simonov model 1936 (AVS-36)''") was a Soviet automatic rifle which saw service in the early years of World War II. It was among the early select ...

, Soviet automatic rifle * Nintendo Advanced Video System, or AVS, the original name for the

Nintendo Entertainment System The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) is an 8-bit home video game console developed and marketed by Nintendo. It was first released in Japan on 15 July 1983 as the and was later released as the redesigned NES in several test markets in the ...

* '' A Vampyre Story'', the 2007 Autumn Moon Entertainment adventure game * A US Navy hull classification symbol: Aviation stores issue ship (AVS) {{disambiguation