CLS may refer to:

Academic fields

Critical legal studies Critical legal studies (CLS) is a school of critical theory that developed in the United States during the 1970s.Alan Hunt, "The Theory of Critical Legal Studies," Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 6, No. 1 (1986): 1-45, esp. 1, 5. Se DOI, 10.1 ...

, school of legal philosophy * Constrained least square statistical estimator * CLs method to set bounds on particle physics model parameters * The .cls file extension, used to hold LaTeX manuscripts - see LaTeX Compatibility and converters

Education

California Labor School The California Labor School (until 1945 named the Tom Mooney Labor School) was an educational organization in San Francisco from 1942 to 1957. Like the contemporary Jefferson School of Social Science and the New York Workers School, it represent ...

, San Francisco, US 1942–57 *

City of London School , established = , closed = , type = Public school Boys' independent day school , president = , head_label = Headmaster , head = Alan Bird , chair_label = Chair of Governors , chair = Ian Seaton , founder = John Carpenter , special ...

, UK *

Covington Latin School Covington Latin School is a co-educational Catholic college-preparatory high school in Covington, Kentucky, USA, offering a classical education. Since its inception in 1923, the school has operated under the Diocese of Covington; it is located nex ...

, Kentucky, US *

Crystal Lake South High School Crystal Lake South High School, often referred to as "South" or "CLS," is one of three high schools in Crystal Lake, Illinois, and currently has a body of roughly 1916 students. As Crystal Lake's second oldest school, it was constructed from 1976 ...

, Illinois, US *

Chicago Law School (''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name ...

at The University of Chicago, US *

Columbia Law School Columbia Law School (Columbia Law or CLS) is the law school of Columbia University, a private Ivy League university in New York City. Columbia Law is widely regarded as one of the most prestigious law schools in the world and has always ranked i ...

at Columbia University, US * Cornell Law School at Cornell University, US * Coalition of Latino and Latina Scholars at Teachers College, Columbia University, US *

Critical Language Scholarship Program The Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program is a United States Department of State cultural and educational exchange program which offers approximately 600 undergraduate or graduate level students from the United States the opportunity to parti ...

of the US State Department

Societies and associations

* Caribbean Labour Solidarity, based in London, UK * Chicago Linguistic Society * Christian Legal Society *

Communist League of Struggle The Communist League of Struggle (CLS) was a small communist organization active in the United States during the 1930s. Founded by Albert Weisbord and his wife, Vera Buch, who were veterans of the Left Socialist movement and the Communist Party ...

, US, 1931-1937

Software and technology

Cable landing station A cable landing point is the location where a submarine or other underwater cable makes landfall. The term is most often used for the landfall points of submarine telecommunications cables and submarine power cables. The landing will either be ...

, where a submarine cable comes ashore * Common Language Specification, Microsoft *

CLS (command) In computing, CLS (for clear screen) is a command used by the command-line interpreters COMMAND.COM and cmd.exe on DOS, Digital Research FlexOS, IBM OS/2, Microsoft Windows and ReactOS operating systems to clear the screen or console window of co ...

to clear computer screen in several environments ** CLS (CONFIG.SYS directive), in DR-DOS *

Creative Lighting System Speedlight is the brand name used by Nikon Corporation for their photographic flash units, used since the company's introduction of strobe flashes in the 1960s. Nikon's standalone Speedlights (those not built into the company's cameras) have the ...

, in Nikon speedlights

Medical and science

* Computational Science, an academical research discipline *

Canadian Light Source The Canadian Light Source (CLS) (french: link=no, Centre canadien de rayonnement synchrotron – CCRS) is Canada's national synchrotron light source facility, located on the grounds of the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, C ...

, a synchrotron light source *

Clinical laboratory science Health technology is defined by the World Health Organization as the "application of organized knowledge and skills in the form of devices, medicines, vaccines, procedures, and systems developed to solve a health problem and improve quality of liv ...

, another name for Medical Technology or Medical Laboratory Science *

Combat lifesaver 68W (pronounced as sixty-eight whiskey using the NATO phonetic alphabet) is the Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) for the United States Army's Combat Medic. 68Ws are primarily responsible for providing emergency medical treatment at point of wo ...

, US non-medical military role

Music

* City of London Sinfonia *

CLS Music CLS Music is a Budapest based independent record label, founded in 2002 as CLS Records. In 2010, the company changed its name to "CLS Music" to reflect a shift in the company's focus from releasing records to more wide-scope musical management. ...

, a record label *

Cali Life Style Santiago de Cali (), or Cali, is the capital of the Valle del Cauca department, and the most populous city in southwest Colombia, with 2,227,642 residents according to the 2018 census. The city spans with of urban area, making Cali the secon ...

, a Hip Hop act

Transportation and vehicles

* Capsule launch system for

space capsule A space capsule is an often-crewed spacecraft that uses a blunt-body reentry capsule to reenter the Earth's atmosphere without wings. Capsules are distinguished from other satellites primarily by the ability to survive reentry and return a payl ...

s * Mercedes-Benz CLS-Class, automobile models

Business and finance

CLS Group CLS Group (for Continuous Linked Settlement), or simply CLS, is a specialized financial infrastructure group whose main entity is the New York-based CLS Bank. It started operations in 2002 and operates a unique global multicurrency cash settlemen ...

, a global financial market utility *

Celestica Celestica Inc. is a Canadian multinational electronics manufacturing services (EMS) company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. History Leadership Celestica's President and CEO is Rob Mionis. Mionis took over leadership on 1 August 2015 af ...

, New York Stock Exchange symbol * CLS Communication, translation services * CLS Holdings, UK investment company * Core Labor Standards, ILO {{disambig