BS, B.S., Bs, bs, or B's may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

*BS-, a prefix for all games broadcast for the

Satellaview The is a satellite modem peripheral produced by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Famicom in 1995. Containing 1 megabyte of ROM space and an additional 512 kB of RAM, Satellaview allowed players to download games, maga ...

modem via the Japanese Broadcasting Satellite system * "B.S." (song), a song by Jhené Aiko from the album ''Chilombo'' * Team BS, French music collective founded by La Fouine that includes Fababy, Sultan and Sindy *

NHK , also known by its Romanization of Japanese, romanized initialism NHK, is a Japanese public broadcasting, public broadcaster. It is a statutory corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television licence, television license fee. NHK ope ...

's satellite broadcaster mark, NHK-BS * ''Backstage'' (magazine) * Baritone saxophone, a musical instrument * Bullshit (card game), a card game

Businesses and organizations

*, a bank in Spain *, a bank headquartered in Spain * Beijing Subway, a transit system * BellSouth, a United States telephone company * Better Serbia (''Bolja Srbija''), a political party in Serbia * ' ("Cipher Bureau"), a Polish cryptography and signals intelligence agency known for its work on German Enigma ciphers in the 1930s * Boy Scouts; see

scouting Scouting or the Scout Movement is a youth social movement, movement which became popularly established in the first decade of the twentieth century. It follows the Scout method of informal education with an emphasis on practical outdoor activi ...

* British International Helicopters (IATA code BS) * British Shipbuilders, a public corporation founded in 1977 * British Standards, produced by BSI Group * British Sugar, a division of Associated British Foods * Building surveyor, a professional in the construction industry concerned with setting out reference points and markers *

Nonpartisan Local Government Activists Nonpartisan or non-partisan may refer to: __NOTOC__ General political concepts * Nonpartisanship, also known as Nonpartisanism, co-operation without reference to political parties * Non-partisan democracy, an election with no official recognitio ...

(''Bezpartyjni Samorządowcy'') a political party in Poland

In finance

* Venezuelan ', currency of Venezuela * Bolivian ', currency of Bolivia

Places

* BS postcode area, in Bristol, England *

The Bahamas The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an Archipelagic state, archipelagic and island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean. It contains 97 per cent of the archipelago's land area and 88 per cent of ...

, by ISO 2-letter country code and license plate code ** .bs, country-code Top Level Domain for the Bahamas * , a city in Slovakia with the vehicle registration plate BS * , a Swiss canton, officially abbreviated to BS * or (), a city in the Southern District of Israel * , a town in Germany, also known in English as Brunswick, with the vehicle registration plate BS * , a city and province of Italy with the vehicle registration plate BS * , a city in Poland with the vehicle registration plate BS

In science and technology

Computing and telecommunications

* Bs (programming language) *

Backspace Backspace (, ⌫) is the keyboard key that in typewriters originally pushed the carriage one position backwards, and in modern computer systems typically moves the display cursor one position backwards,The meaning of "backwards" depends on the dir ...

, and the backspace control character in the C0 control code set *

Base transceiver station A base transceiver station (BTS) or a baseband unit (BBU) is a piece of equipment that facilitates wireless communication between user equipment (UE) and a network. UEs are devices like mobile phone A mobile phone or cell phone is a portab ...

, or base station, a node in a mobile telephony network * Bubble sort, a sorting algorithm * Boot sector, a memory region containing machine code, generally used for booting an operating system * BotServ, an IRC bot server * BraveSentry, a clone of the SpySheriff malware program * Broadcasting Satellite (Japanese), a system of Japanese communication satellites

Medicine

* Bachelor of Surgery, an academic degree * Bernard–Soulier syndrome, a rare autosomal recessive coagulopathy, that is caused a deficiency of glycoprotein Ib * Bartter syndrome, a rare inherited disease which results in hypokalemia

Other uses in science and technology

Bachelor of Science A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, B.S., B.Sc., SB, or ScB; from the Latin ') is a bachelor's degree that is awarded for programs that generally last three to five years. The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Scienc ...

, an academic degree * Behavioural sciences * Brake-specific fuel consumption, a measure of engine fuel efficiency * Bright Star Catalogue, which lists all stars of stellar magnitude 6.5 or brighter * Bronshtein and Semendyayev, a handbook of mathematics * Strange B meson, a subatomic particle, symbol * Brier score, a measure for the accuracy of probabilistic predictions *The Köppen climate classification code for a

semi-arid climate A semi-arid climate, semi-desert climate, or steppe climate is a dry climate sub-type. It is located on regions that receive precipitation below potential evapotranspiration, but not as low as a desert climate. There are different kinds of se ...

In sport

The Bs The Bs was an occasional team that played first-class cricket in the first half of the 19th century in matches against All-England Eleven, All-England and Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). The team ostensibly consisted of players whose surname began ...

, a 19th-century cricket team * British Shooting, the governing body for target shooting in Great Britain * British Showjumping, the governing body for showjumping in Great Britain *Blocked Shot, in basketball statistics, see

Block (basketball) In basketball, a block or blocked shot occurs when a defensive player legally deflects a field goal (basketball), field goal attempt from an offensive player to prevent a score. The defender is not allowed to make contact with the offensive playe ...

*Blown Save, in baseball statistics, see Save (baseball) * Oakland Ballers, American baseball team nicknamed B's

Other uses

* Bullshit, a phrase denoting something worthless * ''Bengali Sambat'', used to mark years in the Bengali calendar *

Big Sister (disambiguation) Big Sister may refer to: *An older sister, see birth order *Big Sister (brothel), an online brothel in Prague *The Big Sister (Dexter's Laboratory), "The Big Sister" (Dexter's Laboratory), an episode of ''Dexter's Laboratory'' *"Big Sister," a son ...

* Bikram Sambat, a calendar used in Nepal *

Bosnian language Bosnian (; / ; ), sometimes referred to as Bosniak ( / ; ), is the standard language, standardized Variety (linguistics)#Standard varieties, variety of the Serbo-Croatian pluricentric language mainly used by ethnic Bosniaks. Bosnian is one of ...

(ISO 639 alpha-2 code bs) * Broad Street (disambiguation) *

Bronze Star Medal The Bronze Star Medal (BSM) is a Awards and decorations of the United States Armed Forces, United States Armed Forces decoration awarded to members of the United States Armed Forces for either heroic achievement, heroic service, meritorious a ...

, a United States military award * ' ( Institute of consecrated life), a Roman Catholic monastic Order