GS may stand for:

Businesses and organizations

Goldman Sachs Goldman Sachs () is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company. Founded in 1869, Goldman Sachs is headquartered at 200 West Street in Lower Manhattan, with regional headquarters in London, Warsaw, Bangalore, H ...

, one of the world's largest global investment banks *

Global Star Software Global Star Software was a Canadian video game publisher based in Mississauga. It was founded in 1995 by Craig McGauley and Damian Cristiani and operated alongside their Triad Distributors, which had been founded in 1993. Both companies were acqu ...

, a former Canadian video game publisher *

GS (Swedish union) GS is a trade union in Sweden representing workers in the media, forestry and woodworking industries. History The union was established on 1 June 2009 through the merging of Swedish Forest and Wood Workers' Union and Swedish Graphic Workers' ...

, a trade union in Sweden *

GS Group GS Group is a South Korean conglomerate. GS comprises GS Holdings, subsidiaries & affiliates including GS Caltex, GS Retail, GS Shop, GS EPS, GS Global, GS Sports and GS E&C among others. The asset size is 65.4 trillion KRW at the end of 201 ...

, a Korean company that is a spin-off from the LG Group *

Columbia University School of General Studies The School of General Studies, Columbia University (GS) is a liberal arts college A liberal arts college or liberal arts institution of higher education is a college with an emphasis on undergraduate study in liberal arts and sciences. Such c ...

, one of three undergraduate colleges at Columbia University in New York City *

Tianjin Airlines : ''See Grand China Air for the holding company of Hainan Airlines.'' Tianjin Airlines ( —formerly Grand China Express Air) is a Chinese airline headquartered in Tianjin Binhai International Airport passenger terminal building, Dongli District, ...

, by IATA code

Music

GS Boyz GS Boyz (explicitly G-Spot Boyz) are an American hip hop group from Arlington, Texas, formed in 2005. The group gained national popularity and sold over 1 million records under Sony Music, RCA Records, and MWN Music Group after nationally distr ...

(explicitly G-Spot Boyz), an American hip hop group from Arlington, Texas,

Places

Gansu Gansu (, ; alternately romanized as Kansu) is a province in Northwest China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeast part of the province. The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibet ...

, a province of China (Guobiao abbreviation GS) *

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands ) , anthem = "God Save the King" , song_type = , song = , image_map = South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands in United Kingdom.svg , map_caption = Location of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands in the southern Atlantic Oce ...

(ISO country code GS), a British Overseas Territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

* G_s alpha subunit, a subtype of G-protein coupled receptors *

Gilbert's syndrome Gilbert syndrome (GS) is a syndrome in which the liver of affected individuals processes bilirubin more slowly than the majority. Many people never have symptoms. Occasionally jaundice (a slight yellowish color of the skin or whites of the eye ...

, a liver enzyme disorder which can cause elevated levels of serum bilirubin *

Gitelman syndrome Gitelman syndrome (GS) is an autosomal recessive kidney tubule disorder characterized by low blood levels of potassium and magnesium, decreased excretion of calcium in the urine, and elevated blood pH. The disorder is caused by disease-causing ...

, an autosomal recessive kidney tubule disorder *

Geopathic stress Geopathology (also Geopathy) is a theory that links the Earth's inherent radiation with the health of humans, animals and plants. The term is derived from Greek γεω- (geō-), combining form of γῆ (gê, “earth”) and πάθος (páthos, ...

, a pseudoscientific condition

Computing

* GS, a group separator character in the C0 control code set *

.gs .gs is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. .gs is a member of CoCCA, a group of country-code domains making use of common registry and/or dispute resolution services. .gs is a ...

, Internet country code top-level domain of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands *

GS register x86 (also known as 80x86 or the 8086 family) is a family of complex instruction set computer (CISC) instruction set architectures initially developed by Intel based on the Intel 8086 microprocessor and its 8088 variant. The 8086 was intr ...

, in the X86 computer architecture *

Ghostscript Ghostscript is a suite of software based on an interpreter for Adobe Systems' PostScript and Portable Document Format (PDF) page description languages. Its main purposes are the rasterization or rendering of such page description language files, ...

, a free software suite for handling PostScript and Portable Document Format (PDF) files *

Apple IIGS The Apple IIGS (styled as II), the fifth and most powerful of the Apple II family, is a 16-bit personal computer produced by Apple Computer. While featuring the Macintosh look and feel, and resolution and color similar to the Amiga and Atari ST ...

, the most powerful model in the Apple II computer line

Other uses in science and technology

* GS, the

METAR METAR is a format for reporting weather information. A METAR weather report is predominantly used by aircraft pilots, and by meteorologists, who use aggregated METAR information to assist in weather forecasting. Raw METAR is the most common form ...

reporting code for graupe or hail smaller than in diameter *

Roland GS Roland GS, or just GS, sometimes expanded as General Standard or General Sound, is a MIDI specification. It requires that all GS-compatible equipment must meet a certain set of features and it documents interpretations of some MIDI commands and by ...

, an extension of General MIDI electronic musical instruments' specification by Roland Corporation *

g-force The gravitational force equivalent, or, more commonly, g-force, is a measurement of the type of force per unit mass – typically acceleration – that causes a perception of weight, with a g-force of 1 g (not gram in mass measure ...

, measure in "g's" *

Geprüfte Sicherheit The ''Geprüfte Sicherheit'' ("Tested Safety") or ''GS'' mark is a voluntary certification mark for technical equipment. It indicates that the equipment meets German and, if available, European safety requirements for such devices. The main differ ...

, a safety mark appearing on technical equipment *

Glide slope Instrument landing system glide path, commonly referred to as a glide path (G/P) or glide slope (G/S), is "a system of vertical guidance embodied in the instrument landing system which indicates the vertical deviation of the aircraft from its o ...

, part of the instrument landing system used by aircraft *

Ground segment A ground segment consists of all the ground-based elements of a space system used by operators and support personnel, as opposed to the space segment and user segment. The ground segment enables management of a spacecraft, and distribution of p ...

, in space systems

Sports

Galatasaray S.K. Galatasaray Spor Kulübü (, ''Galatasaray Sports Club'') is a Turkish sports club based on the European side of the city of Istanbul in Turkey. Most notable for its association football department, the club also consists of various other de ...

, a Turkish sports club *

Games started In baseball statistics, games started (denoted by GS) indicates the number of games that a pitcher has started for his team. A pitcher is credited with starting the game if he throws the first pitch to the first opposing batter. If a player is lis ...

, a baseball statistic *

Giant Slalom skiing Giant slalom (GS) is an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding discipline. It involves skiing between sets of poles ("gates") spaced at a greater distance from each other than in slalom but less than in Super-G. Giant slalom and slalom make up t ...

, an alpine skiing discipline *

Goal shooter Netball is a ball sport for two teams of seven players; its rules are published in print and online by the International Netball Federation. Games are played on a rectangular court divided into thirds, with a raised goal at each short end. The ob ...

, a position in netball *

Golden State Warriors The Golden State Warriors are an American professional basketball team based in San Francisco. The Warriors compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA), as a member of the league's Western Conference Pacific Division. Founded in 194 ...

, a professional NBA basketball team based in Oakland, California *

GS Pétroliers (handball) Mouloudia Club d'Alger ( ar, نادي مولودية الجزائر), referred to as MC Alger or MCA for short, is an Algerian handball team that was founded on 1964, as a division of the of MC Alger. They play their home games in Hacène Harcha ...

, an Algerian handball team

Vehicles

Automobiles

Citroën GS The GS is a front-engine, front-drive, four or five door, five passenger family car manufactured and marketed by Citroën in two series: for model years 1970-1979 in fastback saloon and estate bodystyles and subsequently as the GSA for model ye ...

, a French compact car lineup *

Geely Emgrand GS The Geely Emgrand S and the original Geely Emgrand GS is a compact crossover produced by Chinese auto brand Geely under the Emgrand brand. The original design of the Emgrand GS production car launched in 2016 was previewed by the Emgrand Crosso ...

, a Chinese compact crossover *

Lexus GS The is an executive car sold by Lexus, the premium division of Toyota. The same car had been launched in 1991 as the Toyota Aristo in Japan. For non-Japanese markets, it was released as the Lexus GS in February 1993. It continued using the Toyo ...

, a Japanese executive sedan *

MG GS The MG GS is the first sports utility vehicle (SUV) to be produced by MG Motor at its plant in China. It was launched at the Auto Shanghai Motor Show in April 2015. About The GS was launched at the Auto Shanghai Motor Show in April 2015, it ...

, a British compact SUV

Trim lines

Buick Gran Sport The Gran Sport name has been used on several high-performance cars built by General Motors for its Buick brand since 1965. In the GM brands hierarchy, Buick was surpassed in luxury and comfort appointments only by Cadillac, which did not produce ...

, an American high-performance sports package series *

Toyota G Sports The Toyota G Sports or G's is a range of enhancements to some cars manufactured by Toyota. The enhancements include body kits, interiors, wheels, suspension, and drive-line components. In 2016, the G's lineup was changed to Toyota GR Sport, GR Spor ...

, a Japanese high-performance package series

Motorcycles

BMW GS The BMW GS series of one purpose off-road/on-road BMW motorcycles have been produced from 1980, when the R80G/S was launched, to the present day. The GS refers to either Gelände/Straße (German: off-road/road) or Gelände Sport. GS motorcycles c ...

, a German dual purpose off-road/on-road motorcycle series *

Suzuki GS series The Suzuki GS series was Suzuki Motor Corporation's first full range of 4-stroke powered road motorcycles, having previously almost exclusively manufactured 2-stroke machines. Suzuki had produced the 4-stroke Colleda COX 125cc and 93cc 4-stroke ...

, a Japanese road motorcycle series

Other uses

Gagasan Sejahtera The Gagasan Sejahtera (English: ''Ideas of Prosperity'', abbrev: GS) was a coalition of opposition Islamist political parties which promote the "ideas of peace" in Malaysia. The informal electoral pact was formed initially on 16 March 2016 by ...

, an informal coalition of opposition Islamist political parties in Malaysia *

General Schedule (US civil service pay scale) The General Schedule (GS) is the predominant pay scale within the United States civil service. The GS includes the majority of white collar personnel (professional, technical, administrative, and clerical) positions. , 71 percent of federal civili ...

, a prefix designating a pay grade in the US civil service *

Group Sounds , often abbreviated as GS, is a genre of Japanese rock music which became popular in the mid to late 1960s and initiated the fusion of Japanese ''kayōkyoku'' music and Western rock music. Their music production techniques were regarded as playin ...

, a genre of Japanese music * ''

Pokémon Gold and Silver and are 1999 role-playing video games developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Color. They are the first installments in the second generation of the ''Pokémon'' video game series. They were released in Japan i ...

'', installments of the Pokémon series of video games