APS or Aps or aps or similar may refer to:

Education

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

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 *

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 * American Phytopathological Society * Ammonium persulfate, oxidizing agent commonly used in polyacrylamide gels * Antiphospholipid syndrome *

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 * Australasian Proteomics Society *

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 *

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, 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, or X.445, a telecommunications standard * Atmospheric Plasma Spray, a thermal spraying 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 The APS underwater assault rifle (APS stands for ''Avtomat Podvodny Spetsialnyy'' (Автомат Подводный Специальный) or "Special Underwater Assault Rifle") is an underwater firearm designed by the Soviet Union in the earl ...

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 Alstom APS, also known as ''Alimentation par Sol'' or ''Alimentation Par le Sol'' (which literally means "feeding via the ground"), is a form of ground-level power supply for street trams and, potentially, other vehicles. APS was developed by In ...

, 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 *

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

* Adult Protective Services * Algeria Press Service, 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, 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, proportion of income which is saved