OSS

OSS may refer to:

Organizations

• Office of Strategic Services, World War II forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency
• Observatoire du Sahara et du Sahel, dedicated to fighting desertification and drought; based in Tunis, Tunisia
• Offshore Super Series, an offshore powerboat racing organization
• Open Spaces Society, a UK registered charity championing public paths and open spaces

Science and technology

• Ohio Sky Survey
• Oriented spindle stop, a type of spindle motion used within some G-code cycles
• Optical SteadyShot, a lens-based image stabilization system by Sony

Computer software and hardware

• Open-source software
• Open Sound System, a standard interface for making and capturing sound in Unix operating systems
• Open Search Server, search engine software
• Operations support systems, computers used by telecommunications service providers to administer and maintain network systems
• Web Browser for S60, a web browser for mobile devices, also known as OSS Browser

Education

• Otto Stern School for Integrated Doctoral Education, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
• Options Secondary School, Chula Vista, California
• Outram Secondary School, Singapore
• ÖSS (Öğrenci Seçme Sınavı), the only university entrance exam in Turkey

Entertainment

• O.S.S. (film), a 1946 World War II spy film about Office of Strategic Services agents
• O.S.S. (TV series), a British spy series which aired in 1957 in the UK and the US
• Organization of Super Spies, a fictional organization in Spy Kids

Other uses

• Oss, a city and municipality in the Netherlands
• Oss (surname)
• Ossetic language code
• The Old Syriac Sinaiticus, a Bible manuscript
• Operations Support Squadron
• Optimized Systems Software, a former software company
• Order of St. Sava, a Serbian decoration
• Optimal Stereo Sound, another name for the Jecklin Disk recording technique

See also

• OS (disambiguation)
• Hoz (disambiguation)
• AAS (disambiguation)