AVS or Avs may refer to:

People

* AVS (actor), Indian actor and comedian

Sports

* Colorado Avalanche, an NHL hockey team

Schools

Abbey Vocational School The Abbey Vocational School (also known as the AVS or the 'Tech'; ''Scoil na Mainistreach'' in Irish) (formerly known as the Donegal Technical School) is a non-denominational vocational secondary school situated in Donegal, County Donegal, Irela ...

, a secondary school in County Donegal, Ireland *

Amman Valley School Ysgol Dyffryn Aman is a bilingual (Welsh language, Welsh and English) comprehensive school and VI form. On average, it has about 2000 pupils. It is located on Margaret Street, Ammanford, Carmarthenshire in Wales. Admissions It is a mixed-gender ...

, a bilingual (Welsh and English) secondary school in Wales

Science

* American Vacuum Society, a member society of the American Institute of Physics, now known only as AVS *

Angle of Vanishing Stability In sailing, the limit of positive stability (LPS) or angle of vanishing stability (AVS) is the angle from the vertical at which a boat will no longer stay upright but will capsize, becoming :wikt:inverted, inverted, or Turtling (sailing), turtled. ...

, the angle at which a boat will capsize * Acid volatile sulfide

Audio video

* Audio Video Standard, a Chinese multimedia standard * Auditory Visual Stimulation, a controversial princip of the called

Mind machine A mind machine (aka ''brain machine'' or ''light and sound machine'') uses pulsing rhythmic sound, flashing light, or a combination of these to alter the frequency of the user's brainwaves. Mind machines can induce deep states of relaxation, conc ...

, or psychowalkman

Hardware

* Adaptive voltage scaling, Adaptive Voltage Scaling as power optimization techniques

Software

Advanced Visualization Studio Advanced Visualization Studio (AVS), is a music visualization plugin for Winamp. It was designed by Winamp creator, Justin Frankel and was first shipped in version 2.0a4 with Winamp 2.61. ''AVS'' has a customizable design which allows users to c ...

, a music visualization plugin for Winamp *

Alexa Voice Service Amazon Alexa, also known simply as Alexa, is a virtual assistant technology largely based on a Polish speech synthesiser named Ivona, bought by Amazon in 2013. It was first used in the Amazon Echo smart speaker and the Echo Dot, Echo Studio and ...

, a cloud-based voice recognition service *

AOL Active Virus Shield AOL Active Virus Shield (commonly referred to as AVS) was a free antivirus utility made available by AOL. Its engine was based on the one used by Kaspersky Anti-Virus. The program is no longer available. Features Active Virus Shield includes nu ...

, a discontinued free antivirus utility made available by AOL * AviSynth, a script-based frameserver * Cisco application virtual switch

Verification systems

* Address verification service, a security measure in credit card processing * Adult Verification System, a system used by websites to confirm that someone accessing their site is of the age of majority

Other uses

* ''Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra'', known in English as the Greens and Left Alliance, an Italian electoral coalition composed of two political parties:

Italian Left Italian Left ( it, Sinistra Italiana, SI) is a left-wing political party in Italy. SI was launched in November 2015 as a parliamentary group in the Chamber of Deputies (full name: Italian Left – Left Ecology Freedom), including Left Ecology Fr ...

and Green Europe. * American Viola Society, an organization of viola players and enthusiasts * American Vegan Society, an organization that promotes veganism in the United States *

Atharvaveda The Atharva Veda (, ' from ' and ''veda'', meaning "knowledge") is the "knowledge storehouse of ''atharvāṇas'', the procedures for everyday life".Laurie Patton (2004), Veda and Upanishad, in ''The Hindu World'' (Editors: Sushil Mittal and G ...

, aka Atharvaveda-Shaunakiya, a sacred Hindu text * AVS-36, Soviet automatic rifle * Nintendo Advanced Video System, or AVS, the original name for the

Nintendo Entertainment System The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) is an 8-bit third-generation home video game console produced by Nintendo. It was first released in Japan in 1983 as the commonly known as the The NES, a redesigned version, was released in America ...

* '' A Vampyre Story'', the 2007 Autumn Moon Entertainment adventure game {{disambiguation