As an acronym, BLS may stand for:

Companies and brands

BellSouth BellSouth, LLC (stylized as ''BELLSOUTH'' and formerly known as BellSouth Corporation) was an American telecommunications holding company based in Atlanta, Georgia. BellSouth was one of the seven original Regional Bell Operating Companies after ...

, ticker symbol for the defunct United States telephone company *

BLS AG BLS AG is a Swiss railway company created by the 2006 merger of BLS Lötschbergbahn and Regionalverkehr Mittelland AG. Its ownership is divided, with 55.8% of it owned by the canton of Berne, and 21.7% by the Swiss Confederation. It has two ma ...

, a railway company in Switzerland once called Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon railway *

Cadillac BLS The Cadillac BLS is a compact executive car that was marketed in Europe by Cadillac, sharing General Motors' GM Epsilon platform, Epsilon architecture, as a restyled variant of the Saab 9-3. Development was carried out by Saab Automobile, Saab ...

, a compact executive car

Education

Bachelor of Liberal Studies The purpose of the Bachelor of Liberal Studies (BLS) degree is to provide students with a solid multidisciplinary preparation in the Humanities, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences and the Arts, subsequently allowing them to pursue careers in educati ...

Bachelor of Library Science A bachelor is a man who is not and never has been married.Bachelors are, in Pitt & al.'s phrasing, "men who live independently, outside of their parents' home and other institutional settings, who are neither married nor cohabitating". (). Etymo ...

Boston Latin School The Boston Latin School is a Magnet school, magnet Latin schools, Latin Grammar schools, grammar State school, state school in Boston, Massachusetts. It has been in continuous operation since it was established on April 23, 1635. It is the old ...

, the first school established in North America *

Brooklyn Law School Brooklyn Law School (BLS) is a Private university, private law school in New York City. Founded in 1901, it has approximately 1,100 students. Brooklyn Law School's faculty includes 60 full-time faculty, 15 emeriti faculty, and adjunct faculty. ...

Bucerius Law School Bucerius Law School (pronounced ) is a private law school located in Hamburg, Germany. The school was the first private school to teach law in Germany. History and structure Bucerius Law School was founded in 2000 by a non-profit foundation, ...

, the first private law school in Germany

Science and medicine

Bacterial leaf scorch Bacterial leaf scorch (commonly abbreviated BLS, also called bacterial leaf spot) is a disease state affecting many crops, caused mainly by the xylem-plugging bacterium ''Xylella fastidiosa''. It can be mistaken for ordinary ''leaf scorch'' cause ...

, a disease state affecting many crops *

Bare lymphocyte syndrome Bare lymphocyte syndrome is a condition caused by mutations in certain genes of the major histocompatibility complex or involved with the processing and presentation of MHC molecules. It is a form of severe combined immunodeficiency. Presentation ...

, a form of severe combined immunodeficiency *

Basic life support Basic life support (BLS) is a level of medical care which is used for patients with life-threatening condition of cardiac arrest until they can be given full medical care by advanced life support providers (paramedics, nurses, physicians or any ...

, an emergency medical protocol *

Blind loop syndrome Blind loop syndrome, also known as stagnant loop syndrome, is a state that occurs when the normal bacterial flora of the small intestine proliferates to numbers that cause significant derangement to the normal physiological processes of digestion ...

, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth *

Brillouin Scattering In electromagnetism, Brillouin scattering (also known as Brillouin light scattering or BLS), named after Léon Brillouin, refers to the interaction of light with the material waves in a medium (e.g. electrostriction and magnetostriction). It is m ...

(or Brillouin Light Scattering) *

BLS digital signature A BLS digital signature, also known as Boneh–Lynn–Shacham (BLS), is a cryptographic signature scheme which allows a user to verify that a signer is ''authentic''. The scheme uses a bilinear pairing e: G_1\times G_2\to G_T, where G_1 ...

, a cryptographic signature for verifying that a system validated a transaction

Other uses

Buckeye Leadership Society The Buckeye Leadership Society, also known as BLS, is an honorary leadership organization at Ohio State University in Ohio in the United States. Established on campus in 2004, it currently has over 300 members. The Society is affiliated with th ...

, an honorary leadership Society at The Ohio State University *

Bureau of Labor Statistics The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is a unit of the United States Department of Labor. It is the principal fact-finding agency for the government of the United States, U.S. government in the broad field of labor economics, labor economics and ...

, a United States government agency *

Black Label Society Black Label Society is an American heavy metal/southern metal band formed in Los Angeles in 1998 by guitarist/singer Zakk Wylde. To date, the band has released eleven studio albums, two live albums, two compilation albums, one EP, and three ...

, an American heavy metal band

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