CS, C-S, C.S., Cs, cs, or cs. may refer to:

Job titles

Chief superintendent Chief superintendent is a senior rank in police forces, especially in those organised on the British model. Rank insignia of chief superintendent File:Sa-police-chief-superintendent.png, South Australia Police File:RCMP Chief Superintendent.pn ...

, a rank in the British and several other police forces * Company secretary, a senior position in a private sector company or public sector organisation * Culinary Specialist, a US Navy occupational rating

Language

Czech language Czech (; Czech ), historically also Bohemian (; ''lingua Bohemica'' in Latin), is a West Slavic language of the Czech–Slovak group, written in Latin script. Spoken by over 10 million people, it serves as the official language of the Czech R ...

(ISO 639-1 language code) * Hungarian cs, a digraph in the Hungarian alphabet

Organizations

Christian Social Party (Austria) The Christian Social Party (german: link=no, Christlichsoziale Partei, CS or CSP) was a major conservative political party in the Cisleithanian crown lands of Austria-Hungary and under the First Austrian Republic, from 1891 to 1934. The party ...

, a major conservative political party in the Cisleithania, part of Austria-Hungary, and in the First Republic of Austria *

Citizens (Spanish political party) Citizens ( es, link=no, Ciudadanos ; ca, link=no, Ciutadans ; eu, link=no, Hiritarrak; gl, link=no, Cidadáns; shortened as Cs—C's until January 2017), officially Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (''Ciudadanos–Partido de la Ciudadanía'') ...

, a post-nationalist political party in Spain * Congregation of the Missionaries of St. Charles, a Catholic religious congregation, also called ''Scalabrinians'' *

Confederate States of America The Confederate States of America (CSA), commonly referred to as the Confederate States or the Confederacy was an unrecognized breakaway republic in the Southern United States that existed from February 8, 1861, to May 9, 1865. The Confeder ...

, an unrecognized confederation of secessionist North American slave states existing from 1861 to 1865

Companies

Colorado and Southern Railway The Colorado and Southern Railway was an American Class I railroad in the western United States that operated independently from 1898 to 1908, then as part of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad until it was absorbed into the Burli ...

, a railroad company in the western United States * Comlux Aruba NV ( IATA airline code: CS) *

Copenhagen Suborbitals Copenhagen Suborbitals is an amateur, crowd-funded, and open-source human space program. Since its beginning in 2008, Copenhagen Suborbitals has flown five home-built rockets and two mock-up space capsules. Their stated goal is to have one of th ...

, a Danish non-profit rocket group working on the HEAT1X-TYCHO BRAHE rocket *

CouchSurfing CouchSurfing is a hospitality exchange service by which users can request homestays or interact with other people who are interested in travel. It is accessible via a website and mobile app. It uses a subscription business model, and while ho ...

, a hospitality service * Credit Suisse, a Swiss financial services company

Places

Cannon Street station Cannon Street station, also known as London Cannon Street, is a central London railway terminus and connected London Underground station in Travelcard zone 1 located on Cannon Street in the City of London and managed by Network Rail. It is ...

, London, UK, abbreviated CS in UK railway slang *

Czechoslovakia , rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי, , common_name = Czechoslovakia , life_span = 1918–19391945–1992 , p1 = Austria-Hungary , image_p1 ...

(former ISO 3166-1 country code) * Serbia and Montenegro (former ISO 3166-1 country code)

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

* Cardiogenic shock, a medical emergency where heart fails to pump properly to push blood forward. * Caesarean section, a surgical procedure to deliver one or more babies, or, rarely, to remove a dead fetus * Cockayne syndrome, a rare autosomal recessive, congenital disorder * Conditioned stimulus, in the psychological procedure of classical conditioning * Corticosteroids, a class of hormones produced in vertebrates, and their synthetic analogues * Cowden syndrome, a rare autosomal dominant inherited disorder * (-)-camphene synthase, an enzyme * CS (gene), which encodes the enzyme citrate synthase

Chemistry

* Caesium or Cesium, symbol Cs, a chemical symbol * Carbon monosulfide, chemical formula CS

Computing

Computer science Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to practical disciplines (includi ...

, the scientific and practical approach to computation and its applications * CS register, or code segment register, in X86 computer architecture * Cable select, an ATA device setting for automatic master/slave configuration * Checkstyle, a Java static code analysis tool *

Chip select Chip select (CS) or slave select (SS) is the name of a control line in digital electronics used to select one (or a set) of integrated circuits (commonly called "chips") out of several connected to the same computer bus, usually utilizing the thre ...

, a control line in digital electronics * ChanServ, an IRC network service * Construction Set, a program for creating or editing PC games (i.e.

The Elder Scrolls Construction Set ''The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind'' is an open-world action role-playing video game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. It is the third installment in the ''Elder Scrolls'' series, following 1996's '' The ...

) * ''

Adobe Creative Suite Adobe Creative Suite (CS) is a discontinued software suite of graphic design, video editing, and web development applications developed by Adobe Systems. The last of the Creative Suite versions, Adobe Creative Suite 6 (CS6), was launched at a re ...

'', a design and development software suite by Adobe Systems * C#, a general-purpose, multi-paradigm programming language.

Mathematics

* cs (elliptic function), one of Jacobi's elliptic functions

Other uses in science and technology

* Carbon steel *

Cirrostratus cloud Cirrostratus is a high-level, very thin, generally uniform ''stratiform'' genus-type of cloud. It is made out of ice-crystals, which are pieces of frozen water. It is difficult to detect and it can make halos. These are made when the cloud takes ...

* Citizen science *

Compressed sensing Compressed sensing (also known as compressive sensing, compressive sampling, or sparse sampling) is a signal processing technique for efficiently acquiring and reconstructing a signal, by finding solutions to underdetermined linear systems. This ...

, a signal processing technique for reconstructing a signal using underdetermined linear systems * Control segment, part of the structure of the Global Positioning System *

Counter-scanning Counter-scanning (CS) is a scanning method that allows correcting raster distortions caused by drift of the probe of scanning microscope relative to the measured surface. During counter-scanning two surface scans, viz., direct scan and counter scan ...

, a scanning method that allows correcting raster distortions * cS, another form for cSt, for centistokes, a unit of viscosity *

CS gas The compound 2-chlorobenzalmalononitrile (also called ''o''-chlorobenzylidene malononitrile; chemical formula: C10H5ClN2), a cyanocarbon, is the defining component of tear gas commonly referred to as CS gas, which is used as a riot control agen ...

, a riot control agent

Other uses

* Communication Skills *

Controlled substance A controlled substance is generally a drug or chemical whose manufacture, possession and use is regulated by a government, such as illicitly used drugs or prescription medications that are designated by law. Some treaties, notably the Single ...

, generally a drug or chemical whose manufacture, possession, or use is regulated by a government *

Cable Ship A cable layer or cable ship is a deep-sea vessel designed and used to lay underwater cables for telecommunications, electric power transmission, military, or other purposes. Cable ships are distinguished by large cable sheaves for guiding cabl ...

, in civilian ship names *

Calgary Stampede The Calgary Stampede is an annual rodeo, exhibition, and festival held every July in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The ten-day event, which bills itself as "The Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth", attracts over one million visitors per year and featu ...

, a rodeo * Caught stealing, a statistic in baseball *

Chhatrapati Shivaji Shivaji Bhonsale I (; 19 February 1630 – 3 April 1680), also referred to as Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, was an Indian ruler and a member of the Bhonsle Maratha clan. Shivaji carved out his own independent kingdom from the declining Adilsh ...

, c. 1627/1630 – 1680), Indian warrior king and member of the Bhonsle Maratha clan * Christian Science, a religion * '' Cities: Skylines'', 2015 city-building simulation video game * ''Coke Studio'' (disambiguation), several musical television shows * ''

Counter-Strike ''Counter-Strike'' (''CS'') is a series of multiplayer tactical first-person shooter video games in which teams of terrorists battle to perpetrate an act of terror (bombing, hostage-taking, assassination) while counter-terrorists try to preve ...

'', a series of video game first released as a 1999 modification for ''Half-Life'' * ''Cum Suis'' (Latin: "and associates"); see

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Customer service Customer service is the assistance and advice provided by a company to those people who buy or use its products or services. Each industry requires different levels of customer service, but in the end, the idea of a well-performed service is that ...

, the provision of service to customers before, during and after a purchase and sale * Bombardier-Airbus C-Series, small jetliner * Ferrari 360 Challenge Stradale