AVS or Avs may refer to:
People
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AVS (actor)
Amanchi Venkata Subrahmanyam (2 January 1957 – 8 November 2013), better known and credited by his initials AVS, was an Indian actor, comedian, producer, director, and journalist known for his works in Telugu cinema. A.V.S. was known particula ...
, Indian actor and comedian
Sports
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Colorado Avalanche
The Colorado Avalanche (colloquially known as the Avs) are a professional ice hockey team based in Denver. They compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Central Division in the Western Conference. The Avalanche play thei ...
, an NHL hockey team
Schools
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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
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Amman Valley School, a bilingual (Welsh and English) secondary school in Wales
Science
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, a member society of the American Institute of Physics, now known only as AVS
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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 inverted, or turtled.
For example, if a boat with an ...
, the angle at which a boat will capsize
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Acid volatile sulfide
Audio video
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Audio Video Standard
Audio Video Coding Standard (AVS) refers to the digital audio and digital video series compression standard formulated by the Audio and Video coding standard workgroup of China.
Work began in 2002, and three generations of standards were publis ...
, 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
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Adaptive voltage scaling, Adaptive Voltage Scaling as power optimization techniques
Software
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Advanced Visualization Studio, a music visualization plugin for Winamp
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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 an ...
, a cloud-based voice recognition service
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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
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AviSynth
AviSynth is a frameserver program for Microsoft Windows, Linux and macOS initially developed by Ben Rudiak-Gould, Edwin van Eggelen, Klaus Post, Richard Berg and Ian Brabham in May 2000 and later picked up and maintained by the open source communi ...
, a script-based frameserver
* Cisco application
virtual switch Network functions virtualization (NFV) is a network architecture concept that leverages the IT virtualization technologies to virtualize entire classes of network node functions into building blocks that may connect, or chain together, to create and ...
Verification systems
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Address verification service
address verification service (AVS) is a service provided by major credit card processors to enable merchants to authenticate ownership of a credit or debit card used by a customer. AVS is done as part of the merchant's request for authorization ...
, a security measure in credit card processing
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Adult Verification System
An age verification system, also known as an age gate, is a technical protection measure used to restrict access to digital content from those who are not appropriately-aged. These systems are used primarily to restrict access to content classifie ...
, 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
The Greens and Left Alliance ( it, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra, AVS), is a left-wing political alliance active in Italy, which was launched on 2 July 2022 as a federation of two political parties, Italian Left (SI) and Green Europe (EV).
The AVS is ...
, 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 ...
and
Green Europe
Green Europe ( it, Europa Verde, EV), officially Green Europe – Greens (''Europa Verde – Verdi''), is a green political party in Italy. Its leaders are Angelo Bonelli, long-time leader of the former Federation of the Greens, and Eleonora Evi, ...
.
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American Viola Society The American Viola Society (AVS) is an organization headquartered in Dallas, Texas that encourages excellence in performance, pedagogy, research, composition, and lutherie by fostering communication and friendship among violists of all skill levels, ...
, an organization of viola players and enthusiasts
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American Vegan Society
The American Vegan Society (AVS) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that promotes veganism in the United States. It was founded in 1960 by H. Jay Dinshah. The date of the earlier The Vegan Society (UK)'s founding, November 1, is now cele ...
, an organization that promotes veganism in the United States
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Atharvaveda, aka Atharvaveda-Shaunakiya, a sacred Hindu text
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AVS-36
The AVS-36 (from ''Avtomaticheskaya Vintovka Simonova 1936 model''; russian: Автоматическая винтовка Симонова образца 1936 года (АВС-36)) was a Soviet automatic rifle which saw service in the early year ...
, Soviet automatic rifle
* Nintendo Advanced Video System, or AVS, the original name for the
Nintendo Entertainment System
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A Vampyre Story
''A Vampyre Story'' is a 2008 point-and-click adventure game developed by Autumn Moon Entertainment for Windows, published by Crimson Cow. The game is set in Europe during the 1890s, and follows a young female opera singer turned vampire as she ...
'', the 2007 Autumn Moon Entertainment adventure game
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