APS or Aps or aps or similar may refer to:

Businesses and organizations

Businesses and public bodies

* Algeria Press Service, a news agency * Arizona Public Service, an electric power company *

Australian Protective Service The Australian Protective Service (APS) was an Australian Commonwealth law enforcement agency which existed between October 1984 and June 2004. The APS was created by the separation of the Uniformed Protective Service component of the Australian F ...

, an Australian Commonwealth law enforcement agency *

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 ...

, the federal civil service of the Commonwealth of Australia *ASTRA Platform Services, now

SES 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 ...

Education

* Abbottabad Public School, in Pakistan * Adarsh Public School, in India * Alamogordo Public Schools, in New Mexico, U.S. * Albuquerque Public Schools, in New Mexico, U.S. * Allendale Public Schools, in Michigan, U.S. * Arlington Public Schools, in Virginia, U.S. *

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 in New South Wales, the Great Public Schools Association in Quee ...

, in Australia * Atlanta Public Schools, in Georgia, U.S. * Aurora Public Schools ** Aurora Public Schools (Colorado), in Colorado, U.S. ** East Aurora Public School District 131, in Illinois, U.S. ** West Aurora Public School District 129, in Illinois, U.S. *

Indian Army Public Schools Indian Army Public Schools (APS) are chain of educational institutions under regional commands of Indian Army established for the purpose of providing education to the children of Indian armed forces personnel. With a nationwide presence spannin ...

Other organisations

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

, a human rights group *

Alternative Press Syndicate The Underground Press Syndicate (UPS), later known as the Alternative Press Syndicate (APS), was a network of counterculture of the 1960s, countercultural newspapers and magazines that operated from 1966 into the late 1970s. As it evolved, the Und ...

, a network of countercultural newspapers and magazines * American Philatelic Society, a stamp collecting foundation *

American Philosophical Society The American Philosophical Society (APS) is an American scholarly organization and learned society founded in 1743 in Philadelphia that promotes knowledge in the humanities and natural sciences through research, professional meetings, publicat ...

, an American scholarly organization *

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 ...

, a not-for-profit membership organization *

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 ...

, a non-profit professional society * American Phytopathological Society, an international scientific organization * Armenian Professional Society, a membership organization *

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 r ...

, an international non-profit organization * Association for Psychosocial Studies, a British learned society * Australasian Proteomics Society, a learned society *

Australian Psychological Society The Australian Psychological Society (APS) is Australia's leading association for psychologists in Australia, with more than 25,000 members. APS works to improve the lives of Australians through psychology, working in diverse settings and sect ...

, a professional association

Places

* Alba-la-Romaine, Ardèche, France, known as ''Aps'' until 1904 * Apsley railway station, England, station code APS

Science and technology

* Adenosine 5'-phosphosulfate, metabolic precursor to 3'-phosphoadenosine-5'-phosphosulfate *

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

, an autoimmune state * Autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome, a rare disease * Advanced Photon Source, a synchrotron X-ray source at Argonne National Laboratory * Advanced planning and scheduling, a manufacturing management process * Algebra of physical space, in physics *

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 ...

, in chemistry *

Apus Apus is a small constellation in the Southern Celestial Hemisphere, southern sky. It represents a bird-of-paradise, and its name means "without feet" in Greek language, Greek because the bird-of-paradise was once wrongly believed to lack feet. ...

, abbreviation Aps, a constellation * Application Packaging Standard, for integrating application software *

Active-pixel sensor An active-pixel sensor (APS) is an image sensor, which was invented by Peter J.W. Noble in 1968, where each pixel sensor unit cell has a photodetector (typically a pinned photodiode) and one or more active transistors. In a metal–oxide–semico ...

, an image sensor * Advanced Photo System, a film format in photography * Asynchronous Protocol Specification, 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 oth ...

specification * Accessible Pedestrian Signal, a pedestrian crossing * Alstom APS, electrical ground-level power supply for trams * Auxiliary Propulsion System of the

S-IVB The S-IVB (pronounced "S-four-B") was the third stage on the Saturn V and second stage on the Saturn IB launch vehicles. Built by the Douglas Aircraft Company, it had one J-2 rocket engine. For lunar missions it was fired twice: first for Earth ...

launch vehicle

Military

APS underwater rifle The APS underwater assault rifle () is an underwater firearm designed by the Soviet Union in the early 1970s. It was adopted in 1975. Made by the Tula Arms Plant () in Russia, it is exported by Rosoboronexport. Under water, ordinary bullets a ...

, a Soviet firearm *

Active protection system An active protection system (APS) 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 ...

, for vehicles against missile attacks * Africa Partnership Station, a United States Navy maritime safety initiative *

Stechkin automatic pistol The Stechkin or APS (''Avtomaticheskiy Pistolet Stechkina'' = ''Автоматический Пистолет Стечкина'') is a Soviet selective fire machine pistol that is chambered in 9×18mm Makarov and 9×19mm Parabellum. History ...

(''Avtomaticheskiy Pistolet Stechkina'') * APS, a classification symbol United States Navy amphibious warfare ships

Other uses

Adult Protective Services In the United States, Adult Protective Services (APS) is a government agency that investigates allegations of a vulnerable adult being or having been abused, neglected, or exploited by their caregivers. APS is typically administered by local or ...

, social services in the United States * Advanced planning and scheduling, a manufacturing management process *

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 ...

, 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 20,000 DKK (approx. 2, ...

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

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). ...

, in Keynesian economics