PS
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PS, P.S., ps, and other variants may refer to:
Chemistry
- Chloropicrin, a highly toxic chemical compound
- Phosphatidylserine, a phospholipid
- Phosphorothioate (or Thiophosphate), a family of compounds and anions with the general chemical formula PS4-xOx3− (x = 0, 1, 2, or 3).
- Polystyrene, a common type of plastic
- Ps, Positronium, pseudo-chemical symbol
Computers and technology
- Adobe Photoshop, a graphics editor and creator by Adobe
- MPEG program stream, an MPEG-2 container format
- Parametric Stereo, feature used in digital audio
- PostScript, a page description language
- .ps, filename extension for a file in PostScript format
- ps (Unix), an application that displays statistics on running processes
- .ps, the State of Palestine Internet domain extension or top-level domain (ccTLD)
- PS Power and Sample Size, an interactive computer program for power and sample size calculations
- Windows PowerShell, a command line scripting and system management shell for Microsoft Windows
Engineering
- Ps or Static pressure is used in fluid mechanics and aviation
Entertainment, music and literature
- P.S. (album), a compilation album of film music by Goran Bregovic
- P.S. (film), a 2004 film
- P.S. (A Toad Retrospective), a compilation album of music by Toad the Wet Sprocket
- PS Classics, a record label
- PS Publishing from the U.K.
- "PS", 2003 song by The Books from the album The Lemon of Pink
Games
- PlayStation, a series of video game consoles developed by Sony Computer Entertainment
Medical
- Panayiotopoulos syndrome, a childhood seizure disorder
- Progeroid syndromes, a group of rare diseases causing premature aging
- Pulmonary stenosis or pulmonic stenosis, obstruction of the pulmonary artery of the heart
Places
- Palau, FIPS PUB 10-4 territory code
- Police station, abbreviated to "PS" in British police slang
- Proton Synchrotron, a 1959 particle accelerator at CERN
- State of Palestine, ISO 3166 country code
Political parties
- Parti Socialiste (disambiguation), French
- Partido Socialista (disambiguation), Spanish and Portuguese
- Partito Socialista (disambiguation), Italian
- Positive Slovenia
- Social Democratic Party (Andorra) Partit Socialdemòcrata
- Socialist Party of Albania Partia Socialiste
- Socialist Party of Chile Partido Socialista de Chile
- Socialist Party of Romania Partidul Socialist [din România]
- True Finns Perussuomalaiset
Religion
- Ps, for pastors, ministers in some Christian churches
- Ps., abbreviation for Psalms, a book in the Tanakh and Christian Bibles
Transportation
- PS, prefix used to identify a vessel as a paddle steamer
- Pacific Southwest Airlines, IATA designator of former airline
- Ukraine International Airlines, IATA airline designator
Units
- Petasecond (Ps), 1015 seconds, SI unit of time
- Pferdestärke (PS), abbreviation of the German term for metric horsepower
- Picosecond (ps), 10−12 second, SI unit of time
- Picosiemens (pS), SI unit of electric conductance
Writing and linguistics
- Pashto language, ISO 639 alpha-2 language code
- Postscript/post scriptum, writing added after the main body of a letter
Other uses
- Prefix for US public school (government funded), e.g., P.S. 45
- iPhrothiya yeSiliva (PS) South African Military Award
See also
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