GS may stand for:

Businesses and organizations

Goldman Sachs The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. ( ) is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company. Founded in 1869, Goldman Sachs is headquartered in Lower Manhattan in New York City, with regional headquarters in many internationa ...

, one of the world's largest global investment banks *

Global Star Software Global Star Software was a Canadian video game publisher based in Mississauga. It was founded in 1995 by Craig McGauley and Damian Cristiani and operated alongside their Triad Distributors, which had been founded in 1993. Both companies were acqu ...

, a former Canadian video game publisher * GS (Swedish union), a trade union in Sweden *

GS Group GS Group is one of the largest South Korean conglomerates. GS comprises GS Holdings, subsidiaries & affiliates including GS Caltex, GS Retail, GS Shop, GS EPS, GS Global, GS Sports and GS E&C among others. The asset size is 65.4 trillion KRW ...

, a Korean company that is a spin-off from the LG Group *

Columbia University School of General Studies The School of General Studies (GS) is a liberal arts college and one of the undergraduate colleges of Columbia University, situated on the university's main campus in Morningside Heights, Borough (New York City), New York City. GS is known prima ...

, one of three undergraduate colleges at Columbia University in New York City * Génération.s, a political party in France *

Freedom Movement (Slovenia) The Freedom Movement (, GS) is a social-liberal political party in Slovenia. It was founded on 26 January 2022, as the successor of the extraparliamentary Green Actions Party (Slovene: ''Stranka Zelenih Dejanj,'' Z.DEJ), which was founded on 8 M ...

), a political party in Slovenia *

Tianjin Airlines Tianjin Airlines ( — formerly Grand China Express Air) is a Chinese airline headquartered in Tianjin Binhai International Airport passenger terminal building, Dongli District, Tianjin, operating domestic scheduled passenger flights out of T ...

, by IATA code

Music

GS Boyz GS Boyz (explicitly G-Spot Boyz) are an American snap group from Arlington, Texas, formed in 2005. They are best known for their 2008 debut single " Stanky Legg," which peaked within the top 50 of the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. The song was re-re ...

(explicitly G-Spot Boyz), an American hip hop group from Arlington, Texas,

Places

Gansu Gansu is a provinces of China, province in Northwestern China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeastern part of the province. The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibetan Plateau, Ti ...

, a province of China (Guobiao abbreviation GS) *

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (SGSSI) is a British Overseas Territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean. It is a remote and inhospitable collection of islands, consisting of South Georgia and a chain of smaller islands known as the ...

(ISO country code GS), a British Overseas Territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

* G_s alpha subunit, a subtype of G-protein coupled receptors *

Gilbert's syndrome Gilbert syndrome (GS) is a syndrome in which the liver of affected individuals processes bilirubin more slowly than the majority resulting in higher levels in the blood. Many people never have symptoms. Occasionally jaundice (a yellowing of the ...

, a liver enzyme disorder which can cause elevated levels of serum bilirubin * Gitelman syndrome, an autosomal recessive kidney tubule disorder *

Geopathic stress Geopathology (also Geopathy) is a theory that links the Earth's inherent radiation with the health of humans, animals and plants. The term is derived from Greek γεω- (geō-), combining form of γῆ (gê, “earth”) and πάθος (páthos, ...

, a pseudoscientific condition

Computing

* GS, a group separator character in the C0 control code set *

.gs .gs is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. .gs is a member of the Council of Country Code Administrators (CoCCA), a group of country-code domains making use of common registry an ...

, Internet country code top-level domain of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands *

GS register x86 (also known as 80x86 or the 8086 family) is a family of complex instruction set computer (CISC) instruction set architectures initially developed by Intel, based on the 8086 microprocessor and its 8-bit-external-bus variant, the 8088. The ...

, in the X86 computer architecture *

Ghostscript Ghostscript is a suite of software based on an interpreter for Adobe Systems' PostScript and Portable Document Format (PDF) page description languages. Its main purposes are the rasterization of documents in these language,, the display or prin ...

, a free software suite for handling PostScript and Portable Document Format (PDF) files *

Apple IIGS The Apple IIGS (styled as II) is a 16-bit personal computer produced by Apple Inc., Apple Computer beginning in September 1986. It is the fifth and most powerful model of the Apple II family. The "GS" in the name stands for "Graphics and Sound" ...

, the most powerful model in the Apple II computer line

Other uses in science and technology

* GS, the

METAR METAR is a format for reporting weather information. A METAR weather report is predominantly used by aircraft pilots, and by meteorologists, who use aggregated METAR information to assist in weather forecasting. Raw METAR is highly standardize ...

reporting code for graupe or hail smaller than in diameter *

Roland GS Roland GS, or just GS, sometimes expanded as General Standard or General Sound, is a MIDI specification. It requires that all GS-compatible equipment must meet a certain set of features and it documents interpretations of some MIDI commands and byt ...

, an extension of General MIDI electronic musical instruments' specification by Roland Corporation *

g-force The g-force or gravitational force equivalent is a Specific force, mass-specific force (force per unit mass), expressed in Unit of measurement, units of standard gravity (symbol ''g'' or ''g''0, not to be confused with "g", the symbol for ...

, measure in "g's" *

Geprüfte Sicherheit The ''Geprüfte Sicherheit'' ("") or ''GS'' mark is a voluntary certification mark for consumer products. It indicates that a product meets German and, if available, European safety requirements for such devices. The main difference between GS and ...

, a safety mark appearing on technical equipment *

Glide slope In aviation, instrument landing system glide path, commonly referred to as a glide path (G/P) or glide slope (G/S), is "a system of vertical guidance embodied in the instrument landing system which indicates the vertical deviation of the ai ...

, part of the instrument landing system used by aircraft *

Ground segment A ground segment consists of all the ground-based elements of a spaceflight, space system used by operators and support personnel, as opposed to the Satellite space segment, space segment and user segment. The ground segment enables management of ...

, in space systems

Sports

* Galatasaray S.K., a Turkish sports club *

Games started In baseball statistics, games started (denoted by GS) indicates the number of games pitched, games that a pitcher has starting pitcher, started for his team. A pitcher is credited with starting the game if he throws the first pitch to the first opp ...

, a baseball statistic *

Giant slalom skiing Giant slalom (GS) is an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding competitive discipline. It involves racing between sets of poles ("gates") spaced at a greater distance from each other than in slalom but less than in Super-G. Giant slalom and slal ...

, an alpine skiing discipline *

Goal shooter Netball is a ball sport for two teams of seven players; its rules are published in print and online by the International Netball Federation. Games are played on a rectangular court divided into thirds, with a raised goal at each short end. The ob ...

, a position in netball *

Golden State Warriors The Golden State Warriors are an American professional basketball team based in San Francisco. The Warriors compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference. Founded in 1946 i ...

, a professional NBA basketball team based in San Francisco, California * Grand Slam (disambiguation), a term used in several sports * GS Pétroliers (handball), an Algerian handball team

Vehicles

Automobiles

Citroën GS The Citroën GS is a front-engine, front-drive, four or five door, five passenger family car manufactured and marketed by Citroën in two series: for model years 1970–1979 in fastback saloon and estate bodystyles and subsequently as the GSA f ...

, a French compact car lineup * Geely Emgrand GS, a Chinese compact crossover *

Lexus GS The is an executive car ( E-segment in Europe) manufactured and marketed by Lexus across four generations — launched in 1991 as the Toyota Aristo in Japan and as the Lexus GS for markets outside the Japanese market beginning in February ...

, a Japanese executive sedan * MG GS, a British compact SUV

Trim lines

* Buick Gran Sport, an American high-performance sports package series * Toyota G Sports, a Japanese high-performance package series

Motorcycles

* BMW GS, a German dual purpose off-road/on-road motorcycle series *

Suzuki GS series The Suzuki GS series was Suzuki, Suzuki Motor Corporation's first full range of Four-stroke engine, 4-stroke powered road motorcycles, having previously almost exclusively manufactured Two-stroke engine, 2-stroke machines. Suzuki had produced the ...

, a Japanese road motorcycle series

Other uses

Gaudium et spes (, "Joys and Hopes"), the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, is one of the four constitutions promulgated during the Second Vatican Council between 1963 and 1965. Issued on 7 December 1965, it was the last and longest publ ...

, a constitution (document) of the Second Vatican Council *

Gagasan Sejahtera The Gagasan Sejahtera (English: ''Ideas of Prosperity'', abbrev: GS) was a coalition of opposition Islamist political parties which promote the "ideas of peace" in Malaysia. The informal electoral pact was formed initially on 16 March 2016 by ...

, an informal coalition of opposition Islamist political parties in Malaysia *

General Schedule (US civil service pay scale) The General Schedule (GS) is the predominant pay scale within the United States civil service. The GS includes the majority of white collar personnel (professional, technical, administrative, and clerical) positions. , 71 percent of federal civi ...

, a prefix designating a pay grade in the US civil service *

Group Sounds , often abbreviated as GS, is a genre of Japanese rock music which became popular in the mid to late 1960s and initiated the fusion of Japanese ''kayōkyoku'' music and Western rock music. Their music production techniques were regarded as playin ...

, a genre of Japanese music * ''

Pokémon Gold and Silver and are 1999 role-playing video games developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Color. They are the first installments in the second generation of the ''Pokémon'' video game series. They were released in Japan in ...

'', installments of the Pokémon series of video games * ''Gabbar Singh'', 2012 Indian film abbreviated ''GS''