Cos, COS, CoS, coS or Cos. may refer to:

Mathematics, science and technology

Carbonyl sulfide Carbonyl sulfide is the chemical compound with the linear formula OCS. It is a colorless flammable gas with an unpleasant odor. It is a linear molecule consisting of a carbonyl group double bonded to a sulfur atom. Carbonyl sulfide can be consi ...

* Class of service (CoS or COS), a network header field defined by the IEEE 802.1p task group *

Class of service Class of service (COS or CoS) is a parameter used in data and voice protocols to differentiate the types of payloads contained in the packet being transmitted. The objective of such differentiation is generally associated with assigning prioritie ...

(COS), a parameter in telephone systems *

Cobalt sulfide Cobalt sulfide is the name for chemical compounds with a formula CoxSy. Well-characterized species include minerals with the formula CoS, CoS2, Co3S4, and Co9S8. In general, the sulfides of cobalt are black, semiconducting, insoluble in water, a ...

COS cells COS are fibroblast-like cell lines derived from monkey kidney tissue. COS cells are obtained by immortalizing CV-1 cells with a version of the SV40 virus that can produce large T antigen but has a defect in genomic replication. The CV-1 cell line ...

, cell lines COS-1 and COS-7 * Cosine, a trigonometric function *

Cosmic Origins Spectrograph The Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) is a science instrument that was installed on the Hubble Space Telescope during Servicing Mission 4 ( STS-125) in May 2009. It is designed for ultraviolet (90–320 nm) spectroscopy of faint point sources ...

, a Hubble Space Telescope instrument

Operating systems

* COS (operating system), a Chinese mobile OS *

Cray Operating System The Cray Operating System (COS) is a Cray Research operating system for its now-discontinued Cray-1 (1976) and Cray X-MP supercomputers. It succeeded the Chippewa Operating System (shipped with earlier Control Data Corporation CDC 6000 series a ...

Chippewa Operating System The Chippewa Operating System (COS) is a discontinued operating system developed by Control Data Corporation for the CDC 6600, generally considered the first supercomputer in the world. The Chippewa was initially developed as an experimental system ...

, from Control Data Corporation *

Commercial Operating System Commercial Operating System (COS) is a discontinued family of operating systems from Digital Equipment Corporation. They supported the use of DIBOL, a programming language combining features of BASIC, FORTRAN and COBOL. COS also supported IBM ...

, from Digital Equipment Corporation * GEC COS

Places

* Cos, Ariège, France * Cos or

Kos Kos or Cos (; el, Κως ) is a Greek island, part of the Dodecanese island chain in the southeastern Aegean Sea. Kos is the third largest island of the Dodecanese by area, after Rhodes and Karpathos; it has a population of 36,986 (2021 census), ...

, a Greek island * COS, IATA code for

Colorado Springs Airport City of Colorado Springs Municipal Airport , known as Colorado Springs Airport, is a city-owned public civil-military airport southeast of downtown Colorado Springs, in El Paso County, Colorado, United States., effective December 30, 2021. It i ...

, Colorado, US ** Colorado Springs, Colorado, a US city, derived from its airport's code * Gulf of Cos, Aegean Sea * Villa de Cos, Zacatecas, Mexico *

Cosio Valtellino Cosio Valtellino is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Sondrio in the Italian region Lombardy, located about northeast of Milan and about west of Sondrio. Cosio Valtellino borders the following municipalities: Bema, Cercino, Mant ...

(Cös), Lombardy, Italy * COS, UNDP country code of Costa Rica

Organizations, societies and churches

Charity Organization Society The Charity Organisation Societies were founded in England in 1869 following the ' Goschen Minute' that sought to severely restrict outdoor relief distributed by the Poor Law Guardians. In the early 1870s a handful of local societies were formed w ...

* Children's Orchestra Society, New York City, US *

Church of Satan The Church of Satan is a religious organization dedicated to the religion of LaVeyan Satanism as codified in '' The Satanic Bible''. The Church of Satan was established at the Black House in San Francisco, California, on Walpurgisnacht, A ...

, a religious organization *

Church of Scotland The Church of Scotland ( sco, The Kirk o Scotland; gd, Eaglais na h-Alba) is the national church in Scotland. The Church of Scotland was principally shaped by John Knox, in the Reformation of 1560, when it split from the Catholic Church ...

* Commandement des Opérations Spéciales, coordinating French special forces * Community of Science, an online database *

Company of Servers The Company of Servers (CoS) is a society within the Anglican Communion for lay people whose vocation includes serving at the altar. It was inaugurated on 24 January 2009 at Southwark Cathedral. It is formed of many chapters based on diocesan boun ...

, Anglican altar servers *

Cooper Ornithological Society The Cooper Ornithological Society (COS), formerly the Cooper Ornithological Club, was an American ornithological society. It was founded in 1893 in California and operated until 2016. Its name commemorated James Graham Cooper, an early California b ...

, California, US

Universities and schools

College of the Sequoias College of the Sequoias (COS) is a public two-year community college in Visalia, California. The college is named for the Giant Sequoia trees native to the nearby Sierra Nevada mountain range. History College of the Sequoias was originally esta ...

, California, US *

College of the Siskiyous College of the Siskiyous (COS) is a public community college with campuses in Weed and Yreka in Siskiyou County in Northern California. It is part of the California Community Colleges System, serving as the northernmost college in the state of ...

, California, US

Other uses

* Childhood onset schizophrenia *

Roman consul A consul held the highest elected political office of the Roman Republic ( to 27 BC), and ancient Romans considered the consulship the second-highest level of the ''cursus honorum'' (an ascending sequence of public offices to which politic ...

, a political office in Ancient Rome * COS (clothing), a British fashion brand * Cos lettuce *

Martín Perfecto de Cos Martín Perfecto de Cos (1800–1 October 1854) was a Mexican Army general and politician during the mid-19th century. Born in Veracruz, the son of an attorney, he became an army cadet at the age of 20, a lieutenant in 1821, and a brigadier gener ...

(1800–1854), Mexican general * ''

Consequence of Sound ''Consequence'' (previously ''Consequence of Sound'') is an independently owned New York-based online magazine featuring news, editorials, and reviews of music, movies, and television. In addition, the website also features the Festival Outlook ...

'' (now ''Consequence''), a New York, US online magazine * ''Cos'' (television series), 1976, hosted by Bill Cosby *

Space Operations Command (Italy) The Italian Space Operations Command ( it, Comando delle Operazioni Spaziali, COS) is the joint space command of the Italian Armed Forces. It was established in 2020. History At the end of 2019, the General Office for Space was established within ...