APS or Aps or aps or similar may refer to:

Education

Abbottabad Public School Abbottabad Public School (APS), formerly Railway Public School and Abbottabad Public School and College, is a public, all boys, boarding school for 7th to 12th grade students, located in Abbottabad, Pakistan. APS follows the philosophy of the Bri ...

Adarsh Public School Adarsh Public School (APS) is a senior secondary public school located in Vikaspuri in West Delhi, India. The school is affiliated with the Central Board of Secondary Education. History and traditions APS was founded by Dr. Bhagat Ram Sahgal, ...

, a public school in New Delhi, India *

Alamogordo Public Schools The Alamagordo Municipal School District No. 1, also the Alamogordo Public School District or Alamogordo Public Schools (APS), is a school district that serves the communities of Alamogordo, High Rolls, Holloman Air Force Base, Mountain Park, and ...

Albuquerque Public Schools Albuquerque Public Schools (APS) is a school district based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Founded in 1891, APS is the largest of 89 public school districts in the state of New Mexico. In 2010 it had a total of 143 schools with some 95,000 students, ...

, New Mexico, US school district *

Allendale Public Schools Allendale Public Schools (APS) is a school district headquartered in Allendale, Michigan. Schools * Allendale High School * Allendale Middle School * Oakwood Intermediate School * Allendale Elementary School Building Indian Army Public Schools Army Public Schools (APS) is a system of private schools established for imparting education to the children of the Indian armed forces personnel. With 137 schools throughout the country, it is one of the largest chains of schools in India. It i ...

Associated Public Schools of Victoria The Associated Public Schools of Victoria (APS) are a group of eleven independent schools in Victoria, Australia, similar to the Athletic Association of the Great Public Schools of New South Wales in New South Wales and the Public Schools Associ ...

, independent school group, Australia *

Atlanta Public Schools Atlanta Public Schools (APS) is a school district based in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It is run by the Atlanta Board of Education with superintendent Dr. Lisa Herring. The system has an active enrollment of 54,956 students, attending a t ...

* Abbotsford Public School, in

Abbotsford, New South Wales Abbotsford is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Abbotsford is 10 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Canada Bay. Abbotsford sits ...

Places

Anápolis Anápolis (, ) is a Brazilian city in the State of Goiás. It is located between two capitals, the federal capital Brasília and state capital Goiânia. It is the third most populous city in the state, with 391,772 inhabitants according to an es ...

, Goiás, Brazil, IATA airport code *

Apsley railway station Apsley railway station is in Apsley, on the southern outskirts of Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England. One of two railway stations now serving the town, the other is Hemel Hempstead just up the line in Boxmoor. The station is north west ...

, Apsley, England, National Rail code *

Alba-la-Romaine Alba-la-Romaine (; oc, Aps) is a commune in the Ardèche department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of southern France. The inhabitants of the commune are known as ''Albains'' or ''Albaines'' Geography ''Alba-la-Romaine'' is located some ...

, Ardèche, France, known as ''Aps'' until 1904

Science and medicine

* Adenosine 5'-phosphosulfate, a metabolic precursor to 3'-phosphoadenosine-5'-phosphosulfate (PAPS) *

Advanced Photon Source The Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory (in Lemont, Illinois) is a storage-ring-based high-energy X-ray light source facility. It is one of five X-ray light sources owned and funded by the U.S. Department of Energy Office ...

, a synchrotron X-ray source at Argonne National Laboratory *

Algebra of physical space In physics, the algebra of physical space (APS) is the use of the Clifford or geometric algebra Cl3,0(R) of the three-dimensional Euclidean space as a model for (3+1)-dimensional spacetime, representing a point in spacetime via a paravector (3-di ...

American Physical Society The American Physical Society (APS) is a not-for-profit membership organization of professionals in physics and related disciplines, comprising nearly fifty divisions, sections, and other units. Its mission is the advancement and diffusion of k ...

American Physiological Society The American Physiological Society is a non-profit professional society for physiologists. It has nearly 10,000 members, most of whom hold doctoral degrees in medicine, physiology or other health professions. Its mission is to support research and ...

American Phytopathological Society The American Phytopathological Society (APS) is an international scientific organization devoted to the study of plant diseases (phytopathology). APS promotes the advancement of modern concepts in the science of plant pathology and in plant healt ...

Ammonium persulfate Ammonium persulfate (APS) is the inorganic compound with the formula (NH4)2S2O8. It is a colourless (white) salt that is highly soluble in water, much more so than the related potassium salt. It is a strong oxidizing agent that is used as a cataly ...

, oxidizing agent commonly used in polyacrylamide gels *

Antiphospholipid syndrome Antiphospholipid syndrome, or antiphospholipid antibody syndrome (APS or APLS), is an autoimmune, hypercoagulable state caused by antiphospholipid antibodies. APS provokes blood clots (thrombosis) in both arteries and veins as well as pregnancy- ...

Apus (constellation) Apus is a small constellation in the southern sky. It represents a bird-of-paradise, and its name means "without feet" in Greek because the bird-of-paradise was once wrongly believed to lack feet. First depicted on a celestial globe by Petrus ...

, IAU abbreviation *

Association for Psychological Science The Association for Psychological Science (APS), previously the American Psychological Society, is an international non-profit organization whose mission is to promote, protect, and advance the interests of scientifically oriented psychology in ...

Association for Psychosocial Studies The Association for Psychosocial Studies (APS) is a learned society in the United Kingdom dedicated to promoting the academic discipline of psychosocial studies. The association runs an academic journal: the '' Journal of Psychosocial Studies''. Th ...

Australasian Proteomics Society The Australasian Proteomics Society (APS) is a learned society formed in 2004 from the Lorne Proteomics Symposia (LPS) meetings. The APS was expanded to include the Australian Electrophoresis and Proteomics Society (a society formed in 1994 in Sydn ...

Australian Psychological Society The Australian Psychological Society (APS) is one of the professional associations for psychologists in Australia. The APS had more than 27,000 members in 2005, making it the largest professional body representing psychologists in Australia at ...

Autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome Autoimmune polyendocrine syndromes (APSs), also called polyglandular autoimmune syndromes (PGASs) or polyendocrine autoimmune syndromes (PASs), are a heterogeneous group of rare diseases characterized by autoimmune activity against more than one en ...

Computing and technology

Application Packaging Standard The Application Packaging Standard (APS) is a standard that defines a technology for integrating application software with hosting platforms. Integration of an application with hosting platforms is implemented by creating an ''APS package'' for thi ...

Active pixel sensor An active-pixel sensor (APS) is an image sensor where each pixel sensor unit cell has a photodetector (typically a pinned photodiode) and one or more active transistors. In a metal–oxide–semiconductor (MOS) active-pixel sensor, MOS field-effec ...

Advanced Photo System Advanced Photo System (APS) is a discontinued film format for still photography first produced in 1996. It was marketed by Eastman Kodak under the brand name Advantix, by FujiFilm under the name Nexia, by Agfa under the name Futura and by Ko ...

, photography *

APS-C Advanced Photo System type-C (APS-C) is an image sensor format approximately equivalent in size to the Advanced Photo System film negative in its C ("Classic") format, of 25.1×16.7 mm, an aspect ratio of 3:2 and Ø 31.15 mm field d ...

and APS-H, digital camera sensor formats *

Asynchronous Protocol Specification The X.445 is an ITU-T standard for sending X.400 traffic over standard telephone lines, a method known commonly as dial-up. It is also known as the ''Asynchronous Protocol Specification'' (APS).https://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia_term/0,1237,t=X445& ...

, or X.445, a telecommunications standard * Atmospheric Plasma Spray, a

thermal spraying Thermal spraying techniques are coating processes in which melted (or heated) materials are sprayed onto a surface. The "feedstock" (coating precursor) is heated by electrical (plasma or arc) or chemical means (combustion flame). Thermal sprayi ...

technique * Application Support sublayer of the

ZigBee Zigbee is an IEEE 802.15.4-based specification for a suite of high-level communication protocols used to create personal area networks with small, low-power digital radios, such as for home automation, medical device data collection, and othe ...

specification

Weaponry

* APS Stechkin, Soviet machine pistol * APS underwater rifle *

Active protection system An active protection system is a system designed to actively prevent certain anti-tank weapons from destroying a vehicle. Countermeasures that either conceal the vehicle from, or disrupt the guidance of an incoming guided missile threat are design ...

, for vehicles against missile attacks

Transport

* Accessible

Pedestrian Signal A pedestrian crossing (or crosswalk in American English) is a place designated for pedestrians to cross a road, street or Avenue (landscape), avenue. The term "pedestrian crossing" is also used in the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals, ...

* Alimentation par Sol, electrical ground-level power supply for trams by Alstom * Auxiliary Propulsion System, a component of the Saturn V S-IVB upper stage

Organizations, media and firms

ASTRA Platform Services SES Platform Services GmbH (previously ASTRA Platform Services GmbH, later MX1, now part of SES Video) was a subsidiary company of SES (owner and operator of the Astra satellites) based in Betzdorf, Luxembourg . From its headquarters in Unterf ...

Aborigines' Protection Society The Aborigines' Protection Society (APS) was an international human rights organisation founded in 1837,
...

Adult Protective Services In the United States, Adult Protective Services (APS) are social services provided to abused, neglected, or exploited older adults and adults with significant disabilities. APS is typically administered by local or state health, aging, or regulator ...

Algeria Press Service Algeria Press Service (APS; french: Algérie Presse Service, links=, lit=, translit=, label=; ar, وكالة الأنباء الجزائرية, links=, lit=, translit=Wakālat al-’Anbā’ al-Jazā’iriyyah; ber, ⵜⴰⵡⴰⴽⵍⴰ � ...

, news agency based in Algiers, Algeria *

Alternative Press Syndicate The Underground Press Syndicate (UPS), later known as the Alternative Press Syndicate (APS), was a network of countercultural newspapers and magazines that operated from 1966 into the late 1970s. As it evolved, the Underground Press Syndicate crea ...

, formerly Underground Press Syndicate *

American Philatelic Society The American Philatelic Society (APS) is the largest nonprofit stamp collecting foundation of philately in the world. Both the membership and interests of the society are worldwide. History The organization, originally named the ''American Phil ...

, or their postage stamp authentication service *

American Philosophical Society The American Philosophical Society (APS), founded in 1743 in Philadelphia, is a scholarly organization that promotes knowledge in the sciences and humanities through research, professional meetings, publications, library resources, and communit ...

Arizona Public Service Arizona Public Service (APS) is the largest electric utility in Arizona, United States. Since 1985, it has been the principal subsidiary of publicly traded S&P 500 member Pinnacle West Capital Corporation, known as AZP Group until 1987. Pinnacl ...

, an electric power company *

Armenian Professional Society The Armenian Professional Society is an organization that aims to better "fellowship among Armenian professionals", created in 1958. Membership requirements include a four-year degree from an accredited university A university () is an institut ...

Australian Public Service The Australian Public Service (APS) is the federal civil service of the Commonwealth of Australia responsible for the public administration, public policy, and public services of the departments and executive and statutory agencies of the G ...

* Australian Federal Police Protective Service, formerly Australian Protective Service

Miscellaneous

Advanced planning and scheduling Advanced planning and scheduling (APS, also known as advanced manufacturing) refers to a manufacturing management process by which raw materials and production capacity are optimally allocated to meet demand. APS is especially well-suited to envi ...

Annual Population Survey The Annual Population Survey (APS) is a combined statistical survey of households in Great Britain which is conducted quarterly by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). It combines results from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) and the English, W ...

, a household survey in Great Britain *

Anpartsselskab (; ApS) is the Danish term for a private limited company. ApS, when appended to the end of a Danish company name, is similar to Ltd. after the name of a British company. An ApS is required to have capital of at least 40 000 DKK (approx. 5 370 ...

, the Danish abbreviation (ApS) for a limited liability company *

Africa Partnership Station Africa Partnership Station (or APS) is an international initiative developed by United States Naval Forces Europe-Africa, which works cooperatively with U.S. and international partners to improve maritime safety and security in Africa as part of U ...

, a United States Navy maritime safety initiative *

Average propensity to save In Keynesian economics, the average propensity to save (APS), also known as the savings ratio, is the proportion of income which is saved, usually expressed for household savings as a fraction of total household disposable income (taxed income). ...

, proportion of income which is saved