HS or Hs can stand for:

Businesses and brands

HS Produkt HS Produkt d.o.o. is a Croatia, Croatian firearms manufacturing company, best known for design and production of the HS2000 and XDM series of semi-automatic pistols, which are sold in the United States market by Springfield Armory, Inc., under the ...

, a Croatian firearms manufacturer * ''

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 the Finnish capital ...

'', a newspaper in Finland *

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

, aircraft manufacturing group *

Henschel & Son Henschel & Son () 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 vehicles and weapons. Georg Ch ...

, in aircraft prefixes; e.g., Hs 117 *

Head & Shoulders Head & Shoulders (H&S) is an American brand of anti- dandruff and non-dandruff shampoo produced by parent company Procter & Gamble. The active anti-fungal ingredient in Head & Shoulders is piroctone olamine or zinc pyrithione, with some "cl ...

or H&S, a shampoo brand *

Harris Scarfe Harris Scarfe is an Australian retailer that sells bed linen, kitchenware, homewares, electrical appliances and apparel. It was founded in 1849 in Adelaide, South Australia and has more than 50 stores nationally. In 2015, ownership of Harris Sc ...

and HS Home, a chain of Australian department stores

Science and technology

Chemistry

Hassium Hassium is a synthetic element, synthetic chemical element; it has chemical symbol, symbol Hs and atomic number 108. It is highly radioactive: its most stable known isotopes have half-life, half-lives of about ten seconds. One of its isotopes, Hs ...

, symbol Hs, a chemical element *

Humic substance Humic substances (HS) are colored relatively recalcitrant organic compounds naturally formed during long-term decomposition and transformation of biomass residues. The color of humic substances varies from bright yellow to light or dark brown lead ...

Bisulfide Bisulfide (or bisulphide in British English) is an inorganic anion with the chemical formula HS− (also written as SH−). It contributes no color to bisulfide salts, and its salts may have a distinctive putrid smell. It is a strong base. Bisul ...

, 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 Hereditary spherocytosis (HS) is a congenital hemolytic disorder wherein a genetic genetic mutation, mutation coding for a structural membrane protein phenotype causes the red blood cells to be sphere-shaped (spherocytosis), rather than the norma ...

, 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 lesions, lumps. These are typically painful and break open, r ...

, 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 pioneered several programming language f ...

'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 thermal management (electronics), ...

Higman–Sims group In the area of modern algebra known as group theory, the Higman–Sims group HS is a sporadic simple group of order : 44,352,000 = 293253711 : ≈ 4. The Schur multiplier has order 2, the outer automorphism group has order 2, an ...

, in mathematics *

\left\, \cdot\right\, _

, the

Hilbert–Schmidt norm In mathematics Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. Th ...

Hilbert series In commutative algebra, the Hilbert function, the Hilbert polynomial, and the Hilbert series of a graded commutative algebra finitely generated over a field are three strongly related notions which measure the growth of the dimension of the homog ...

of a graded algebra *

Horizon scanning Horizon scanning (HS) or horizon scan is a method from futures studies, sometimes regarded as a part of foresight. It is the early detection and assessment of emerging technologies or threats for mainly policy makers in a domain of choice. Su ...

, a method from futures studies *

Hypothetical syllogism In classical logic, a hypothetical syllogism is a valid argument form, a deductive syllogism with a conditional statement for one or both of its premises. Ancient references point to the works of Theophrastus and Eudemus for the first investiga ...

, a proof rule in classical logic

Vehicles

Curtiss HS The Curtiss HS was a single-engined patrol flying boat built for the United States Navy during World War I. Large numbers were built from 1917 to 1919, with the type being used to carry out anti-submarine patrols from bases in France from June 1 ...

, an American patrol flying boat *

Lexus HS The Lexus HS (Japanese: レクサス・HS, ''Rekusasu HS'') is a dedicated hybrid vehicle introduced by Lexus as a new compact executive car Sedan (automobile), sedan in 2009. Built on the Toyota MC platform#New MC, Toyota New MC platform, it is ...

, a Japanese compact hybrid sedan *

MG HS The MG HS is a compact crossover SUV manufactured by Chinese automobile manufacturer SAIC Motor under the British MG marque. The vehicle was launched in 2018, replacing the MG GS. In MG's global line-up, the HS is positioned above the subcom ...

, a Chinese-British compact SUV * YTHS HS, a Chinese unmanned aerial vehicle series

Other uses

Harlem Spartans Harlem Spartans, often abbreviated to HS, also known as Harlem O or simply Harlem, is a British hip hop collective based in Kennington, London. Members of Harlem Spartans have acquired over 100 million streams through their music. The name, "Ha ...

, a British hip hop collective *

Harmonized System The Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System, also known as the Harmonized System (HS) of tariff nomenclature is an internationally standardized system of names and numbers to classify traded products. It came into effect in 1988 and ha ...

, the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System of tariff nomenclature *

High school A secondary school, high school, or senior school, is an institution that provides secondary education. Some secondary schools provide both ''lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) and ''upper secondary education'' (ages 14 to 18), i.e., ...

(secondary education) *

Holy Spirit The Holy Spirit, otherwise known as the Holy Ghost, is a concept within the Abrahamic religions. In Judaism, the Holy Spirit is understood as the divine quality or force of God manifesting in the world, particularly in acts of prophecy, creati ...

HS postcode area The HS postcode area, also known as the Outer Hebrides postcode area,Royal Mail, ''Address Management Guide'', (2004) is a group of nine postcode districts, within eight post towns, covering the Outer Hebrides in Scotland. It is the UK's newes ...

, covering the Outer Hebrides, Scotland *

Sestertius The ''sestertius'' (: ''sestertii'') or sesterce (: 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 was a large ...

, an ancient Roman coin *

Solar Hijri calendar The Solar Hijri calendar is the official calendar of Iran. It is a solar calendar, based on the Earth's orbit around the Sun. Each year begins on the day of the March equinox and has years of 365 or 366 days. It is sometimes also called the S ...

(= Hijri Shamsi) *

SS-Heimatschutz Slowakei SS-Heimatschutz Slowakei (HS) was an auxiliary military formation within the Waffen-SS in Slovakia during World War II, Slovakia during World War II. Background From 1943, the agents of the German Party (Slovakia), Deutsche Partei of the Carpathia ...

(HS), a German paramilitary group in Slovakia during World War II * Thailand (

aircraft registration An aircraft registration is a code unique to a single aircraft, required by international convention to be marked on the exterior of every civil aircraft. The registration indicates the aircraft's country of registration, and functions much li ...

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