OSS or Oss may refer to:

Places

Oss OSS or Oss may refer to: Places * Oss, a city and municipality in the Netherlands * Osh Airport, IATA code OSS People with the name * Oss (surname), a surname Arts and entertainment * ''O.S.S.'' (film), a 1946 World War II spy film about ...

, a city and municipality in the Netherlands *

Osh Airport Osh International Airport (; ) is an airport serving Osh, the capital of Osh Region (''oblast'') of Kyrgyzstan. In 2016, 1,210,576 passengers passed through the airport, an increase of 33% over the previous years. Osh International Airport is ...

, IATA code OSS

People with the name

* Oss (surname), a surname

Arts and entertainment

* ''O.S.S.'' (film), a 1946 World War II spy film about Office of Strategic Services agents * ''Oss'' (film), a 1976 Norwegian post-apocalyptic disaster film * ''O.S.S.'' (TV series), a British spy series which aired in 1957 in the UK and the US *

Open Source Shakespeare Open Source Shakespeare is a non-commercial web site allowing free access to searchable digital versions of the complete works of William Shakespeare. The site was created using Moby Shakespeare, which is based on the 1864 Globe edition of the co ...

, a non-commercial website with texts and statistics on Shakespeare's plays * Old Syriac Sinaiticus, a Bible manuscript * Organization of Super Spies, a fictional organization in the ''Spy Kids'' franchise

Education

ÖSS Student Selection and Placement System (, ÖSYS) or Higher Education Foundations Examination (, YKS), formerly Higher Education Examination Undergraduate Placement Examination, (, YGS-LYS), is a standardized test for the admission to higher educat ...

(Öğrenci Seçme Sınavı), a former university entrance exam in Turkey *

Options Secondary School Option or Options may refer to: Computing *Option key, a key on Apple computer keyboards *Option type, a polymorphic data type in programming languages *Command-line option, an optional parameter to a command *OPTIONS, an HTTP request method ...

, Chula Vista, California *

Otto Stern School for Integrated Doctoral Education The Otto Stern School (OSS) is the platform for doctoral education in natural sciences at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. Organisation The Otto Stern School was founded in 2006 as a scientific centre of the Goethe Univ ...

, Frankfurt am Main, Germany * Outram Secondary School, Singapore

Organizations

Observatoire du Sahara et du Sahel The Sahara and Sahel Observatory (, OSS) is an African intergovernmental organisation established in 1992 and based in Tunis, Tunisia. Its aim is to protect the environment in Sahara and Sahel, supervise the usage of natural resources in the region, ...

, dedicated to fighting desertification and drought; based in Tunis, Tunisia *

Office for Science and Society The Office for Science and Society (OSS) is an organization dedicated to science education, operating from Montreal's McGill University. Its staff and contributors use courses, mass media, special events and books to debunk Pseudoscience, pseud ...

, Science Education from Montreal's McGill University *

Office of Strategic Services The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was the first intelligence agency of the United States, formed during World War II. The OSS was formed as an agency of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) to coordinate espionage activities behind enemy lines ...

, World War II forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency * Office of the Supervising Scientist, an Australian Government body under the Supervising Scientist *

Offshore Super Series Offshore may refer to: Science and technology * Offshore (hydrocarbons) * Offshore construction, construction out at sea * Offshore drilling, discovery and development of oil and gas resources which lie underwater through drilling a well * Off ...

, an offshore powerboat racing organization *

One-stop shop A one-stop shop (OSS), in public administration, is a government office where multiple services are offered, allowing customers to access these services in a centralized location rather than in different places. The term originated in the United ...

, a government office where multiple services are offered in a centralized location rather than in different places *

Open Spaces Society The Open Spaces Society is a campaign group that works to protect public rights of way and open spaces in the United Kingdom, such as common land and village greens. It is Britain's oldest national conservation body and a registered charity. Foun ...

, a UK registered charity championing public paths and open spaces *

Operations Support Squadron List of United States Air Force support squadrons identifies the United States Air Force squadron, shield, location and support unit. A support squadron supplies all the necessary manpower and equipment needed to continue numerous tasks. An ope ...

, a United States Air Force support squadron *

Optimized Systems Software Optimized Systems Software (OSS) was a company that produced disk operating systems, programming languages with integrated development environments, and applications primarily for Atari 8-bit computers. The founders of OSS previously developed A ...

, a former software company

Science and technology

Ohio Sky Survey The Ohio Sky Survey was an astronomical survey of extragalactic radio sources. Data were taken between 1965 and 1971 using the Big Ear radio telescope at the Ohio State University Radio Observatory (OSURO), also known as the "Big Ear Radio Obser ...

Optical SteadyShot SteadyShot is the trademarked name of the integrated image stabilisation technologies used in Sony video camcorders, DSLR cameras, mirrorless cameras and on Sony Xperia smartphones and tablets. Different versions of these technologies are know ...

, a lens-based image stabilization system by Sony * Optimal Stereo Sound, another name for the Jecklin Disk recording technique * Oriented spindle stop, a type of spindle motion used within some

G-code G-code (abbreviation for geometric code; also called RS-274, standardized today in ISO 6983-1) is the most widely used computer numerical control (CNC) and 3D printing programming language. It is used mainly in computer-aided manufacturing t ...

cycles * Ovary Sparing Spay (OSS) *

Overspeed Sensor System The Train Protection & Warning System (TPWS) is a train protection system used throughout the British passenger main-line railway network, and in Victoria, Australia. According to the UK Rail Safety and Standards Board, the purpose of TPWS is t ...

(OSS), part of the Train Protection & Warning System for railroad trains

Computer software and hardware

OpenSearchServer OpenSearchServer is an open-source software, open-source application server allowing development of index-based applications such as search engines. Available since April 2009 on SourceForge for download, OpenSearchServer was developed under the ...

, search engine software *

Open Sound System The Open Sound System (OSS) is an interface for making and capturing sound in Unix and Unix-like operating systems. It is based on standard Unix devices system calls (i.e. POSIX read, write, ioctl, etc.). The term also sometimes refers to ...

, a standard interface for making and capturing sound in Unix operating systems *

Open-source software Open-source software (OSS) is Software, computer software that is released under a Open-source license, license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and Software distribution, distribute the software an ...

, software with its source code made freely available *

Operations support system Operations support systems (OSS), operational support systems in British usage, or Operation System (OpS) in Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, NTT are computer systems used by telecommunications service providers to manage their networks (e.g., tele ...

s, computers used by telecommunications service providers to administer and maintain network systems

Other uses

OSS Fighters The OSS Fighters is a Romanian kickboxing gym and promotion. The company was founded in 2018, being one of the largest kickboxing promotions in Romania, alongside the Dynamite Fighting Show and the Colosseum Tournament. It also promotes mixed ...

, a Romania-based kickboxing promotion *

Order of St. Sava The Order of St. Sava () is an ecclesiastic decoration conferred by the Serbian Orthodox Church and a dynastic order presented by the house of Karađorđević. It was previously a state order awarded by both the Kingdom of Serbia and the Kingdom ...

, a Serbian decoration *

Ossetic language Ossetian ( , , ), commonly referred to as Ossetic and rarely as Ossete, is an Eastern Iranian languages, Eastern Iranian language that is spoken predominantly in Ossetia, a region situated on both sides of the Russian-Georgian border in the ...

ISO 639 code oss * Oss (greeting), a casual Japanese salutation * Óss (rune) or Ansuz, a character of the Elder Futhark