PTS or Pts may refer to:

Businesses and organisations

Businesses

Pacific Telemanagement Services Jaroth, Inc. d/b/a Pacific Telemanagement Services is a nationwide operator of payphones in the United States based in San Leandro, California. It was founded in 1984 and has taken over many pay telephone operations that major telephone companies h ...

, an American payphone operator *

Public Television Service Taiwan Public Television Service Foundation (PTS Foundation/Public Television Service Foundation, ), also called Public Television Service (PTS, ), is the first independent public broadcasting institution in Taiwan, which broadcasts the Public Te ...

, public broadcaster in Taiwan *

Swedish Post and Telecom Authority The Swedish Post and Telecom Authority ( sv, Post- och telestyrelsen, abbreviated PTS) is a government authority under the Ministry of Infrastructure (Sweden) and is managed by a board of directors appointed by the Swedish government. The Director- ...

(Swedish: Post- och telestyrelsen, PTS)

Politics

São Toméan Workers Party The São Toméan Workers Party (, PTS) is an opposition political party in São Tomé and Príncipe. The president of the party is Anacleto Rolin. The party participated in the 2002 legislative elections, launching candidates in four electoral ...

(Portuguese: Partido Trabalhista Santomense, PTS) *

Socialist Workers' Party (Argentina) The Socialist Workers' Party ( es, Partido de los Trabajadores Socialistas, PTS), previously known as the Workers Party for Socialism (''Partido de Trabajadores por el Socialismo''), is a Trotskyist political party in Argentina. It was founded in ...

(Spanish: Partido de los Trabajadores Socialistas, PTS)

Schools and colleges

Palmer Trinity School Palmer Trinity School is an independent, college-preparatory, coeducational Episcopal day school located on in Palmetto Bay, Florida (a Miami suburb). The school currently enrolls more than 770 students in grades 6–12. Palmer Trinity is the ...

, Palmetto Bay, Florida, U.S. *

Pittsburgh Theological Seminary Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (PTS) is a Presbyterian graduate seminary in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1794, it houses one of the largest theological libraries in the tri-state area. History Pittsburgh Theological Seminary was formed ...

, Pennsylvania, U.S. *

Princeton Theological Seminary Princeton Theological Seminary (PTSem), officially The Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian Church, is a private school of theology in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1812 under the auspices of Archibald Alexander, the General Assembly of ...

, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.

Other organisations

Protestant Truth Society The Protestant Truth Society (PTS) is a Protestant religious organisation based in London, United Kingdom. History of the organization It was founded by John Kensit in 1889, to protest against the influence of Roman Catholicism within the Church ...

, a British religious organisation

Science, technology and mathematics

Biology and medicine

PTS (gene) 6-pyruvoyltetrahydropterin synthase, also known as PTS, is a human gene which facilitates folate biosynthesis. See also * 6-pyruvoyltetrahydropterin synthase * 6-Pyruvoyltetrahydropterin synthase deficiency 6-Pyruvoyltetrahydropterin synthase de ...

, 6-pyruvoyltetrahydropterin synthase, a human gene *

Peroxisomal targeting signal In biochemical protein targeting, a peroxisomal targeting signal (PTS) is a region of the peroxisomal protein that receptors recognize and bind to. It is responsible for specifying that proteins containing this motif are localised to the peroxis ...

, in biochemical protein targeting *

PEP group translocation PEP group translocation, also known as the phosphotransferase system or PTS, is a distinct method used by bacteria for sugar uptake where the source of energy is from phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP). It is known to be a multicomponent system that always i ...

, or phosphotransferase system, a method used by bacteria for sugar uptake *

Parsonage–Turner syndrome Parsonage–Turner syndrome, also known as acute brachial neuropathy, neuralgic amyotrophy and abbreviated PTS, is a syndrome of unknown cause; although many specific risk factors have been identified (such as; post-operative, post-infectious, pos ...

, a medical condition *

Post-thrombotic syndrome Post-thrombotic syndrome (PTS), also called postphlebitic syndrome and venous stress disorder is a medical condition that may occur as a long-term complication of deep vein thrombosis (DVT). Signs and symptoms Signs and symptoms of PTS in the leg ...

, a medical condition *

Post-traumatic stress disorder Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental and behavioral disorder that can develop because of exposure to a traumatic event, such as sexual assault, warfare, traffic collisions, child abuse, domestic violence, or other threats on ...

, a medical condition

Computing

Pay to surf Pay to surf (PTS) is an online business model which gained popularity in the late 1990’s and experienced a significant decline following the dot-com crash. PTS companies advertised their main advantage as sharing the advertising revenue with the ...

, an early internet business model *

Phoronix Test Suite Phoronix Test Suite (PTS) is a free and open-source benchmark software for Linux and other operating systems which is developed by Michael Larabel and Matthew Tippett. The Phoronix Test Suite has been endorsed by sites such as Linux.com, LinuxPl ...

, benchmark software *

Presentation time stamp The presentation timestamp (PTS) is a timestamp metadata field in an MPEG transport stream or MPEG program stream that is used to achieve synchronization of programs' separate elementary streams (for example Video, Audio, Subtitles) when presented ...

, metadata in MPEG video or other streams *

Pseudoterminal In some operating systems, including Unix and Linux, a pseudoterminal, pseudotty, or PTY is a pair of pseudo-device endpoints (files) which establish asynchronous, bidirectional communication ( IPC) channel (with two ports) between two or more pr ...

Slave

Other uses in science, technology and mathematics

Pure type system __NOTOC__ In the branches of mathematical logic known as proof theory and type theory, a pure type system (PTS), previously known as a generalized type system (GTS), is a form of typed lambda calculus that allows an arbitrary number of sorts and d ...

in mathematical logic *

PTS (amphibious vehicle) The PTS is a Soviet tracked amphibious transport. PTS stands for ''Plavayushchij Transportyer - Sryednyj'' or medium amphibious transport vehicle. Its industrial index was Ob'yekt 65. Introduced in 1965, it is large, with a substantial payload o ...

, a Soviet vehicle *

Probability of Technical Success Probability is the branch of mathematics concerning numerical descriptions of how likely an event is to occur, or how likely it is that a proposition is true. The probability of an event is a number between 0 and 1, where, roughly speaking ...

in Clinical Trials

Other uses

* PTS, abbreviation for a

points decision A points decision is a winning criterion in several full-contact combat sports, such as boxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai, mixed martial arts and others sports involving striking. Unlike normal decisions where there are three judges that agree on whic ...

in combat sports * Pts or ₧,

Peseta (disambiguation) Peseta may refer to: *Spanish peseta, a former currency of Spain *Equatorial Guinean peseta, a former currency of Equatorial Guinea *Sahrawi peseta, the ''de jure'' currency of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic *Catalan peseta, a former currency ...

, a number of currencies * pts, abbreviation for the plural of

pint The pint (, ; symbol pt, sometimes abbreviated as ''p'') is a unit of volume or capacity in both the imperial unit, imperial and United States customary units, United States customary measurement systems. In both of those systems it is tradition ...

, a unit of capacity *

Personal Track Safety Personal Track Safety (PTS) is a system of safer working practices employed within the United Kingdom designed to ensure the safety of railway workers who have to work on or near the line. The principal hazards include collisions between a rail ...

, a British system of safer working practices on railways *

Potential Trouble Source Suppressive Person, often abbreviated SP, is a term used in Scientology to describe the "antisocial personalities" who, according to Scientology's founder L. Ron Hubbard, make up about 2.5% of the population. A statement on a Church of Scientolog ...

, in Scientology *

Kind Space Kind Space (formerly known as PTS - Pink Triangle Services) is an LGBT community centre located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. They are the oldest registered LGBT-specific charity in Canada, becoming registered in 1984. The organization serves gay, ...

, formerly Pink Triangle Services, an LGBT community centre in Ottawa, Canada