NSS may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

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New Star Soccer ''New Star Soccer'', also known as ''NSS'', is a series of Sports game, football video games developed and published by New Star Games. The games let the player create and control a Association football, soccer player's career as he moves through ...

'', a computer game * ''

Newsstand Specials ''Playboy Special Editions'' (formerly known as ''flats'', then ''Newsstand Specials'') are a spin-off series of ''Playboy'' magazine containing glamour and softcore nude photographs. The initially infrequent and later semi-regular editions ran ...

'', a spinoff of ''Playboy'' magazine *

Nintendo Super System The Super Nintendo Entertainment System, commonly shortened to Super Nintendo, Super NES or SNES, is a Fourth generation of video game consoles, 16-bit home video game console developed by Nintendo that was released in 1990 in Japan, 1991 in No ...

, an arcade game cabinet that plays Super NES games *

Northern Sound System Northern Sound System (NSS) is a dedicated youth centre focused on music, broadcasting, and other creative industries, located in Elizabeth, a northern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. Background The Northern Sound System was established ...

, a youth music education centre and venue in Adelaide, South Australia * NSS, a 1958

computer chess Computer chess includes both hardware (dedicated computers) and software capable of playing chess. Computer chess provides opportunities for players to practice even in the absence of human opponents, and also provides opportunities for analysi ...

program

Organizations

Government bodies

* National Security Secretariat (United Kingdom), part of the Cabinet Office * National Security Service (disambiguation), the name of several intelligence services *

National Seismological Service The National Seismological Service (, SSN) is a seismological organization in Mexico that studies and records earthquake activity within the country. It is part of the Geophysics Institute at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and ...

, an agency of the Mexican government *

National Service Scheme The National Service Scheme (NSS) is an Indian government sector public service program conducted by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports of the Government of India. Popularly known as NSS, the scheme was launched in Mahatma Gandhi's centen ...

, a Government of India-sponsored program for community service and social activities *

National Statistical Service of the Republic of Armenia The Statistical Committee of Armenia (), or ArmStat in short, is the national statistical government agency, agency of Armenia. History The statistical institution started its main activities on 7 January 1922 and was previously known as the St ...

, former name of the Statistical Committee of Armenia *

NHS National Services Scotland NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) is a public body and national health board of NHS Scotland. Accountable to the Scottish Government, NSS works at the heart of Scotland’s health service, providing national strategic support services and e ...

, the central support agency to the NHS in Scotland

Political parties

People's Socialist Party of Montenegro The People Socialist Party of Montenegro (, NSS CG) was an opposition political party in Montenegro within the Serbian List due to its support of political union of Montenegro with Serbia, holding 1 seat (represented by MP Emilo Labudović) in th ...

, a political party in the Republic of Montenegro *

National Power Unity National Alliance Justice (, NST), or simply Justice (), previously known as National Power Union (, NSS), sometimes referred to as Union of National Force, is a far-right politics, far-right ultranationalist political party in Latvia. History ...

, a far-right party in Latvia *

People's Peasant Party The People's Peasant Party (, abbr. NSS) is an agrarian political party in Serbia. History It was founded in 1990, its first president being Dragan Veselinov. At this point, its policies were Vojvodina autonomist and social democratic. ...

(''Narodna seljačka stranka''), a political party in Serbia

Schools

National Sport School (Canada) The National Sport School (NSS) is a public high school, high school (secondary school) in Calgary, Alberta which teaches grades 8 through 12. In partnership with Winsport Canada, the school was created to support student athletes with Olympic pot ...

, a high school in Alberta, Canada *

Nauru Secondary School Nauru Secondary School (abbreviated as NSS) is an upper public secondary school in the Yaren District, Nauru, located in the Nauru Learning Village, along with the University of the South Pacific Nauru Campus and the Nauru Technical & Vocational E ...

, a high school in Nauru *

National Socialist Schoolchildren's League The National Socialist Schoolchildren's League (Nationalsozialistischer Schülerbund), known under the acronyms NSS and more rarely NSSB, was a Nazi Party organisation for primary school pupils providing a student council and child protection syst ...

(''Nationalsozialistischer Schülerbund''), the organization for school pupils in the Third Reich *

Northbrooks Secondary School Yishun ( ), formerly known as Nee Soon, is a residential town located in the northeastern corner of the North Region of Singapore, bordering Simpang and Sembawang to the north, Mandai to the west, the Central Water Catchment to its southwes ...

, a secondary school in Yishun, Singapore *

Northern Secondary School Northern Secondary School is a public high school in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It teaches grades 9 through 12. It is a part of the Toronto District School Board (TDSB). Prior to Amalgamation of Toronto in 1998, it was within the Toronto Board of ...

, a high school in Toronto, Canada

Companies

National Screen Service The National Screen Service (NSS) was a company that controlled the distribution of theatrical advertising materials in the United States from approximately 1940 through the 1980s. It was located in Englewood, New Jersey. NSS was formed in 1920 to ...

, an American company involved in cinema advertising * New Skies Satellites, the former name of the Dutch spacecraft operator SES NEW SKIES *

Norsk Spisevognselskap Norsk Spisevognselskap A/S, often abbreviated NSS or shortened to Spisevognselskapet (Norwegian language, Norwegian for "The Dining Car Company"), was a Norway, Norwegian government-owned corporation, state enterprise which operated restaurant c ...

, a dining car company of Norway

Other organizations

Nair Service Society The Nair Service Society (NSS) is an organisation created for the social advancement and welfare of the Nair community that is found primarily in the state of Kerala in Southern part of India. It was established under the leadership of Mannathu ...

, a community welfare organization for the Nair community from Kerala, India *

National Space Society The National Space Society (NSS) is an American international nonprofit 501(c)(3) educational and scientific organization specializing in space advocacy. It is a member of the Independent Charities of America and an annual participant in the Co ...

, an international space advocacy organization *

National Sculpture Society Founded in 1893, the National Sculpture Society (NSS) was the first organization of professional sculptors formed in the United States. The purpose of the organization was to promote the welfare of American sculptors, although its founding member ...

, US *

National Secular Society The National Secular Society (NSS) is a British campaigning organisation that promotes secularism and the separation of church and state. It holds that no one should gain advantage or disadvantage because of their religion or lack of it. The Soc ...

, a British organization *

National Speleological Society The National Speleological Society (NSS) is an organization formed in 1941 to advance the exploration, conservation, study, and understanding of caves in the United States. Originally headquartered in Washington D.C., its current offices are in ...

, an American organization *

Nilachala Saraswata Sangha Nilachala Saraswata Sangha (NSS), ( Oriya: ନୀଳାଚଳ ସାରସ୍ବତ ସଂଘ; Hindi: नीलाचल सारस्वत संघ) is a religious organization that was founded by Swami Nigamananda Paramahansa Dev exclusi ...

, a religious organization *

, Indian government-sponsored public service programme

Politics and government

National Security Strategy (United States) The National Security Strategy (NSS) is a document prepared periodically by the executive branch of the United States that lists the national security concerns and how the administration plans to deal with them. The legal foundation for the docu ...

National Shelter System The American Red Cross and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) together developed the National Shelter System (NSS). Under the National Response Plan, now called the National Response Framework, the American Red Cross The American Nat ...

, a database of emergency shelters in the US administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency *

National Student Survey The National Student Survey is an annual survey, launched in 2005, of all final year undergraduate degree students at institutions in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland within the United Kingdom. The survey is designed to assess undergra ...

, a survey of final-year degree students in the UK * Nuclear Security Summit, a summit on nuclear security established by US President Obama

Science and technology

Computing

Name Service Switch The Name Service Switch (NSS) is a feature found in the standard C library of various Unix-like operating systems that connects a computer with a variety of sources of common configuration databases and name resolution mechanisms. These sources in ...

, a technology used in UNIX * Namespace Specific String, a part of the syntax of a Uniform Resource Name *

Network Security Services Network Security Services (NSS) is a collection of cryptographic computer libraries designed to support cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server applications with optional support for hardware TLS/SSL acceleration on the ...

, cryptographic software libraries for client and server security *

Network switching subsystem Network switching subsystem (NSS) (or GSM core network) is the component of a GSM system that carries out call out and mobility management functions for mobile phones roaming on the network of base stations. It is owned and deployed by mobi ...

, a component of the mobile-phone network *

Novell Storage Services Novell Storage Services (NSS) is a file system used by the Novell NetWare network operating system. Support for NSS was introduced in 2004 to SUSE Linux via low-level network NCPFS protocol. It has some unique features that make it especially use ...

, a file system used by the Novell NetWare operating system * NSS, a 1958

program

Other uses in science and technology

* Neurological soft signs, signs of disturbance in neurology * Neutral salt spray, a

salt spray test The salt spray test (or salt fog test) is a standardized and popular corrosion test method, used to check corrosion resistance of materials and surface coatings. Usually, the materials to be tested are metallic (although stone, ceramics, and polym ...

to qualify the corrosion resistance of coatings on metal * Normal saline solution, in medicine *

NSS Annapolis NSS Annapolis, officially known as Naval Communications Station Washington, D.C. Transmitter or NavCommStaWashingtonDC(T), was a Very Low Frequency (VLF) and High Frequency (HF) transmitter station operated by the United States Navy. It was lo ...

, a US Navy VLF and HF radio transmitter site in Annapolis, Maryland

Other uses

* Nostalgia Super Stock, a drag racing class