CCS may refer to:

Business and brands

CC's CC's (pronounced ''sea-seas'' and short for “corn chips”) is an Australian brand of flavoured tortilla chips produced since the early 1980s, originally by The Smith's Snackfood Company, and currently by Snack Brands Australia. CC's are predo ...

, a corn chip brand * CCS.com, a skateboard/snowboard brand and retailer *

Cross currency swap A cross is a geometrical figure consisting of two intersecting lines or bars, usually perpendicular to each other. The lines usually run vertically and horizontally. A cross of oblique lines, in the shape of the Latin letter X, is termed a sa ...

Circuit City Stores Circuit City is an American consumer electronics retail company, which was founded in 1949 by Samuel Wurtzel as the Wards Company, operated stores across the United States, and pioneered the electronics superstore format in the 1970s. After ...

, an American electronics retail company *

Central Coast Section The Central Coast Section (CCS) is the governing body of public and private high school athletics in the portion of California encompassing San Mateo County, Santa Clara County, Monterey County, San Benito County, Santa Cruz County and a few pri ...

, of the California Interscholastic Federation

Computer science

* Calculus of communicating systems, a modeling approach *

Coded character set Character encoding is the process of assigning numbers to graphical characters, especially the written characters of human language, allowing them to be stored, transmitted, and transformed using digital computers. The numerical values that ...

, in which each character corresponds to a unique number *

Code Composer Studio Code Composer Studio (CCStudio or CCS) is an integrated development environment (IDE) to develop applications for Texas Instruments (TI) embedded processors. Texas Instruments embedded processors include TMS320 DSPs, OMAP system-on-a-chip, DaVin ...

, an integrated development environment for Texas Instruments processors *

Common-channel signaling In telecommunication, common-channel signaling (CCS), or common-channel interoffice signaling (CCIS), is the transmission of control information ''( signaling)'' via a separate channel than that used for the messages, The signaling channel usually ...

, a method of transmitting control information * complete corresponding source, a requirement for

GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a series of widely used free software licenses that guarantee end users the four freedoms to run, study, share, and modify the software. The license was the first copyleft for general ...

s *

ACM Computing Classification System The ACM Computing Classification System (CCS) is a subject classification system for computing devised by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The system is comparable to the Mathematics Subject Classification (MSC) in scope, aims, and s ...

, for publications * CeVIO Creative Studio, a speech and singing synthesis software

Entertainment

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Cardcaptor Sakura , abbreviated as ''CCS'', is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by the manga group Clamp. Serialized monthly in the ''shōjo'' manga magazine ''Nakayoshi'' from May 1996 to June 2000, it was also published in 12 ''tankōbon'' ...

'', a manga and anime series *

CCS (band) CCS, sometimes written as C.C.S., was a British musical group, led by blues guitarist Alexis Korner. The name was derived as an abbreviation of ''Collective Consciousness Society''. Formed in 1970 by musical director John Cameron and record ...

, also known as C.C.S., a British music group

Education

Common Core State Standards Initiative The Common Core State Standards Initiative, also known as simply Common Core, is an educational initiative from 2010 that details what K–12 students throughout the United States should know in English language arts and mathematics at the conc ...

, a United States educational standards effort * Carroll County Schools, in Mississippi's Carroll County School District * Coast Christian Schools, now known as Valor Christian Academy *

College of Creative Studies The College of Creative Studies is the smallest of the three undergraduate colleges at the University of California, Santa Barbara, unique within the University of California system in terms of structure and philosophy. Its small size, studen ...

, Santa Barbara, California *

College for Creative Studies College for Creative Studies (CCS) is a private art school in Detroit, Michigan. It enrolls more than 1,400 students and focuses on arts education. The college is also active in offering art education to children through its Community Arts Par ...

, Detroit, Michigan *

Caroline Chisholm School Caroline Chisholm School is a mixed all-through school with academy status, in Wootton, south Northampton, England. It is named after Caroline Chisholm, a 19th-century social reformer. The principal is David James. The school was built in ...

, England * Cowbridge Comprehensive School, Wales * Calvary Christian School (Covington, Kentucky) *

Cornway College Cornway College is a private, co-educational, day and boarding school in Mount Hampden, Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe, which is 16.5 kilometres from the Harare Central Business District. Cornway College was established in 2006 at its present loc ...

a private, co-educational, day and boarding school in Zimbabwe * Coventry Christian Schools *

Community Christian School (disambiguation) Community Christian School is the name of several private schools. These include *Community Christian School (Georgia), in Stockbridge, Georgia *Community Christian School (Bradenton, Florida) *Community Christian School (Tallahassee, Florida) Se ...

* Casino Christian School, New South Wales *

Center for Cartoon Studies The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) is a two-year institution focusing on sequential art, specifically comics and graphic novelsCarbon capture and storage Carbon capture and storage (CCS) or carbon capture and sequestration is the process of capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) before it enters the atmosphere, transporting it, and storing it (carbon sequestration) for centuries or millennia. Usually th ...

, a technology used to reduce or eliminate emissions from thermal power plants *

Copper-clad steel Copper-clad steel (CCS), also known as copper-covered steel or the trademarked name Copperweld is a bi-metallic product, mainly used in the wire industry that combines the high mechanical resistance of steel with the conductivity and corrosion re ...

, a type of bimetallic conductor *

Combined Charging System The Combined Charging System (CCS) is a standard for charging electric vehicles. It can use or connectors to provide power at up to . These two connectors are extensions of the IEC 62196 Type 1 and Type 2 connectors, with two additional d ...

, a plug standard for fast charging electric vehicles

Gaming

Cases Computer Simulations Cases Computer Simulations (known as CCS) was a video game developer and publisher which specialized in strategy and war games for the ZX Spectrum, a number of which were ported to the BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, Amstrad CPC, and IBM PC. Their cas ...

, a video strategy and war game company *'' Candy Crush Saga'', a puzzle video game

Organisations

Cabinet Committee on Security The Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) of the Government of India discusses, debates and is the final decision-making body on senior appointments in the national security apparatus, defence policy and expenditure, and generally all matters of Ind ...

, in the Cabinet of India *

Canadian Cardiovascular Society The Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS) is the national voice for cardiovascular physicians and scientists in Canada. The CCS is a membership organization that represents more than 1,800 professionals in the cardiovascular field. Its mission is ...

* Casualty Clearing Station, a medical facility operated by British Empire forces during World War I * Ceylon Civil Service *

Centre for Civil Society Centre for Civil Society (CCS) is a non-profit think tank based in New Delhi. The Centre was founded in 1997 by Dr Parth J Shah, former Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan. It operates as an independent educational organisatio ...

* China Communications Services *

China Classification Society China Classification Society (CCS; 中國船級社) is a classification society of ships, started in 1956 as a non-profit making body in the People's Republic of China to perform classification survey, certification survey and notarial survey of shi ...

* Combined Chiefs of Staff, the supreme military command for the western Allies during World War II * Comparative Cognition Society, a scientific society for the study of animal cognition and comparative psychology *

Computer Conservation Society The Computer Conservation Society (CCS) is a British organisation, founded in 1989. It is under the joint umbrella of the British Computer Society (BCS), the London Science Museum and the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry. Overview The ...

* Consumers Cooperative Services, a network of New York City consumer cooperatives founded in the 1920s *Crippled Children Society, founded in New Zealand in 1935 by Alexander Gillies * Crown Commercial Service, an executive agency and trading fund of the Cabinet Office of the UK Government * Committee of Concerned Scientists, an organization supporting human rights of scientists around the world

Places

* Abbreviation for Caracas, Venezuela * IATA code for Simón Bolívar International Airport in Caracas, Venezuela

Science

* Cartesian coordinate system, a mathematical system * Capsanthin/capsorubin synthase, an enzyme * Cellular Confinement Systems (geocells), a honeycombed geosythethetic matrix filled with granular material *

Chinese Chemical Society (Taipei) Chemical Society Located in Taipei (CSLT; ) is a Taiwanese scholarly organization dedicated to chemistry. The organization traces its roots to the establishment of Chinese Chemical Society in Nanjing in 1932 and was reestablished in Taiwan in 1 ...

, a scholarly organization *

Chinese Chemical Society (Beijing) The Chinese Chemical Society (CCS; ) is a professional society of chemists headquartered in Beijing. It is part of the China Association for Science and Technology. Current membership is at around 55,000. History The CCS was founded in Nanjing on ...

, a scholarly organization *

Critical community size The critical community size (CCS) is the minimum size of a closed population within which a human-to-human, non-zoonotic pathogen can persist indefinitely.Bartlett MS The critical community size for measles in the United States. J R Stat Soc er A ...

, a parameter used in vaccination and eradication campaigns * Chemical formula for the compound thioxoethenylidene *

CCS (gene) Copper chaperone for superoxide dismutase is a metalloprotein that is responsible for the delivery of Cu to superoxide dismutase ( SOD1). CCS is a 54kDa protein that is present in mammals and most eukaryotes including yeast. The structure of CCS is ...

, a copper chaperone for superoxide dismutase * Chronic Covid Syndrome, long-term medical symptoms * Collision cross-section, a parameter in Ion mobility spectrometry

Sports

* Canadian Cue Sport Association *

CC Sabathia Carsten Charles Sabathia Jr. (born July 21, 1980) is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played 19 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), primarily with the New York Yankees. He also played for the Cleveland Indians and Milwauk ...

(born 1980), American baseball player *

Cardiff City Stadium The Cardiff City Stadium ( cy, Stadiwm Dinas Caerdydd) is a stadium in the Leckwith area of Cardiff, Wales. It is the home of Cardiff City Football Club and the Wales national football team. Following expansion of the Ninian Stand in July 2 ...

, in Wales *

CIF Central Coast Section The Central Coast Section (CCS) is the governing body of public and private high school athletics in the portion of California encompassing San Mateo County, Santa Clara County, Monterey County, San Benito County, Santa Cruz County and a few pri ...

, part of the California Interscholastic Federation *

Championship Cup Series The Championship Cup Series (CCS) is an American motorcycle racing sanctioning body. The American Sportbike Racing Association LLC (ASRA) is the parent company of CCS. Headquartered in New Freedom , PA , CCS has been in operation since 1984, fou ...

, a motorcycle road racing sanctioning body * Capital City Service, a football hooligan gang attached to Hibernian FC *

Collegiate Conference of the South The Collegiate Conference of the South (CCS) is an athletic conference which competes in the Division III level of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Member schools are located in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, and K ...

, a US college sports conference

Other uses

* Container closure system, the packaging components for a pharmaceutical dosage *

Critical code studies Critical code studies (CCS) is an emerging academic subfield, related to software studies, digital humanities, cultural studies, computer science, human–computer interface, and the do-it-yourself maker culture. Its primary focus is on the cult ...

CYLD cutaneous syndrome CYLD cutaneous syndrome (CCS) is the recently designated term for three rare inherited cutaneous adnexal tumor syndromes: multiple familial trichoepithelioma (MFT1) (also termed epithelioma adenoides cysticum and epithelioma adenoides cysticum of ...

, an inherited, familial disorder involving the development of multiple skin tumors {{disambiguation