HS or Hs can stand for:

Businesses and brands

* HS Produkt, a Croatian firearms manufacturer * ''

Helsingin Sanomat ''Helsingin Sanomat'', abbreviated ''HS'' and colloquially known as , is the largest subscription newspaper in Finland and the Nordic countries, owned by Sanoma. Except after certain holidays, it is published daily. Its name derives from that of ...

'', a newspaper in Finland *

Hawker Siddeley Hawker Siddeley was a group of British manufacturing companies engaged in aircraft production. Hawker Siddeley combined the legacies of several British aircraft manufacturers, emerging through a series of mergers and acquisitions as one of onl ...

, aircraft manufacturing group *

Henschel & Son Henschel & Son (german: Henschel und Sohn) was a German company, located in Kassel, best known during the 20th century as a maker of transportation equipment, including locomotives, trucks, buses and trolleybuses, and armoured fighting vehic ...

, in aircraft prefixes; e.g., Hs 117 * Head & Shoulders or H&S, a shampoo brand * Harris Scarfe and HS Home, a chain of Australian department stores

Science and technology

Chemistry

* Hassium, symbol Hs, a chemical element * Bisulfide, HS⁻, a chemical compound derived from H₂S * Mercapto radical, ^•, a radical molecule * Hun stuff (a World War I name for mustard gas)

Medicine

* hs, medical abbreviation for "hours of sleep" * '' h.s.'', medical abbreviation for the Latin phrase ''hora somni'' ("at bedtime") * Hereditary spherocytosis, a genetic disorder marked by hemolytic anemia *

Hidradenitis suppurativa Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS), sometimes known as acne inversa or Verneuil's disease, is a long-term dermatological condition characterized by the occurrence of inflamed and swollen lumps. These are typically painful and break open, releasing ...

, a skin condition affecting apocrine sweat glands and hair follicles

Other uses in science and technology

* '.hs', the

Haskell programming language Haskell () is a general-purpose, statically-typed, purely functional programming language with type inference and lazy evaluation. Designed for teaching, research and industrial applications, Haskell has pioneered a number of programming lang ...

's typical filename extension *

Heat sink A heat sink (also commonly spelled heatsink) is a passive heat exchanger that transfers the heat generated by an electronic or a mechanical device to a fluid medium, often air or a liquid coolant, where it is dissipated away from the device, th ...

* Higman–Sims group, in mathematics * Hypothetical syllogism, a proof rule in classical logic * Horizon scanning, a method from futures studies

Vehicles

* Curtiss HS, an American patrol flying boat * Lexus HS, a Japanese compact hybrid sedan * MG HS, a Chinese-British compact SUV * YTHS HS, a Chinese unmanned aerial vehicle series

Other uses

* Harlem Spartans, a British hip hop collective * Harmonized System, the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System of tariff nomenclature *

Sestertius The ''sestertius'' (plural ''sestertii''), or sesterce (plural sesterces), was an Ancient Rome, ancient Roman Roman currency, coin. During the Roman Republic it was a small, silver coin issued only on rare occasions. During the Roman Empire it w ...

, an ancient Roman coin *

High school A secondary school describes an institution that provides secondary education and also usually includes the building where this takes place. Some secondary schools provide both '' lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) and ''upper seconda ...

(secondary education) * Solar Hijri calendar (= Hijri Shamsi) *

Holy Spirit In Judaism, the Holy Spirit is the divine force, quality, and influence of God over the Universe or over his creatures. In Nicene Christianity, the Holy Spirit or Holy Ghost is the third person of the Trinity. In Islam, the Holy Spirit acts as ...

* HS postcode area, covering the Outer Hebrides, Scotland *

SS-Heimatschutz Slowakei SS-Heimatschutz Slowakei (HS) was an auxiliary military formation within the Waffen-SS in Slovakia during World War II. Founding From 1943, the agents of the Deutsche Partei of the Slovakian Germans, sent news of partisan activities in Slovakia ...

(HS), a German paramilitary group in Slovakia during World War II * Thailand ( aircraft registration prefix HS) {{disambiguation