LS may refer to:

Businesses

* LS Group, a Korean company *

Jet2.com Jet2.com Limited is a British low-cost leisure airline offering scheduled and charter flights from the United Kingdom. As of 2022, it is the third-largest scheduled airline in the UK, behind EasyJet and British Airways. Jet2 is also officia ...

(IATA code: LS), a British airline

Latin

Lewis and Short ''A Latin Dictionary'' (or ''Harpers' Latin Dictionary'', often referred to as Lewis and Short or L&S) is a popular English-language lexicographical work of the Latin language, published by Harper and Brothers of New York in 1879 and printed sim ...

(abbr. "L&S"), authors of the 1879 work ''A Latin Dictionary'' * Lectori Salutem (L.S.), Latin for 'Greetings Reader' and used as opening words to a letter * ''locus sigilli'', Latin for 'place of the seal', used in notarized and legal documents; see: Seal (contract law)

Organizations

Liberal Party of Croatia The Liberal Party ( hr, Liberalna stranka or LS) was a Croatian social-liberal political party active between January 1998 and April 2006. During its existence the party ran in two general elections (in 2000 and 2003) and in each election won two ...

( hr, Liberalna stranka or LS), a Croatian political party active from 1998–2006 *

Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School (LSRHS or L-S) is a public regional high school in Sudbury, Massachusetts, with a 99% graduation-rate. The school was founded in 1954, and the building was replaced prior to the 2004–2005 academic year, wit ...

, Massachusetts, US *

Lok Sabha The Lok Sabha, constitutionally the House of the People, is the lower house of India's bicameral Parliament, with the upper house being the Rajya Sabha. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by an adult universal suffrage and a first-past ...

, the lower house of the Parliament of India *

Loyola Schools , mottoeng = Light in the Lord , type = Private university, Private, Research university, research, non-profit, coeducational basic and higher education institution , established = December 10, 1859 , religious_affiliation = ...

, the college unit of the Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon City, Philippines

Places

Lesotho Lesotho ( ), officially the Kingdom of Lesotho, is a country landlocked country, landlocked as an Enclave and exclave, enclave in South Africa. It is situated in the Maloti Mountains and contains the Thabana Ntlenyana, highest mountains in Sou ...

(ISO 3166-1 country code: LS), a country in southern Africa *

LS postcode area The LS postcode area, also known as the Leeds postcode area,Royal Mail, ''Address Management Guide'', (2004) is a group of 29 postcode districts in England, within six post towns. These cover northern West Yorkshire (including Leeds, Wetherby, Pu ...

, UK, covering Leeds *

County Laois County Laois ( ; gle, Contae Laoise) is a county in Ireland. It is part of the Eastern and Midland Region and in the province of Leinster. It was known as Queen's County from 1556 to 1922. The modern county takes its name from Loígis, a medie ...

, Ireland

Science, technology, and mathematics

Astronomy

* Light-second (ls), a unit of length in astronomy equivalent to the distance light travels in one second *

Local Supercluster The Virgo Supercluster (Virgo SC) or the Local Supercluster (LSC or LS) is a mass concentration of galaxies containing the Virgo Cluster and Local Group, which itself contains the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies, as well as others. At least ...

(LS) or Virgo Superclaster, our galaxy supercluster

Biology and medicine

Lung surfactant Pulmonary surfactant is a surface-active complex of phospholipids and proteins formed by type II alveolar cells. The proteins and lipids that make up the surfactant have both hydrophilic and hydrophobic regions. By adsorbing to the air-water inte ...

, a lipoprotein complex * Legius syndrome, also known as Neurofibromatosis 1-like syndrome, a genetic disorder * Lichen sclerosus, a skin disease *

Linnean Society of London The Linnean Society of London is a learned society dedicated to the study and dissemination of information concerning natural history, evolution, and taxonomy. It possesses several important biological specimen, manuscript and literature colle ...

, postnominal LS *

Live sand Live sand, a term used in aquarism, is natural reef coral sand populated with millions of beneficial bacteria and organisms which aid in the dissolving of organic wastes like ammonia, nitrites and nitrates produced by larger organisms in saltwater ...

, in aquaria, sand populated with bacteria and organisms to aid in dissolving organic wastes

Computing and electronics

* ls, a command specified by POSIX and by the Single UNIX Specification; used for listing files *

.ls .ls is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Lesotho. Second-level domains Registration to .ls domains are provided through accredited registrars. There are also registrations on third level as shown below History The .ls ...

, the internet top-level domain for Lesotho *

Link-state routing protocol Link-state routing protocols are one of the two main classes of routing protocols used in packet switching networks for computer communications, the others being distance-vector routing protocols. Examples of link-state routing protocols include ...

, used in packet-switching networks * Location Services, a component of Microsoft's

System Center Configuration Manager Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager, formerly System Center Configuration Manager and Systems Management Server (SMS) is a systems management software product developed by Microsoft for managing large groups of computers providing remote cont ...

software * LS, a low-power Schottky version of a 7400 series chip

Engineering

Land Surveyor Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, art, and science of determining the terrestrial two-dimensional or three-dimensional positions of points and the distances and angles between them. A land surveying professional is ca ...

Mathematics

Least squares The method of least squares is a standard approach in regression analysis to approximate the solution of overdetermined systems (sets of equations in which there are more equations than unknowns) by minimizing the sum of the squares of the res ...

, a regression analysis *

Löwenheim–Skolem theorem In mathematical logic, the Löwenheim–Skolem theorem is a theorem on the existence and cardinality of models, named after Leopold Löwenheim and Thoralf Skolem. The precise formulation is given below. It implies that if a countable first-order t ...

, a theorem in first-order logic dealing with the cardinality of models

Physics

LS coupling In quantum mechanics, the procedure of constructing eigenstates of total angular momentum out of eigenstates of separate angular momenta is called angular momentum coupling. For instance, the orbit and spin of a single particle can interact th ...

, interaction between quantum numbers

Transportation

* LS, a generic trim of

Chevrolet Chevrolet ( ), colloquially referred to as Chevy and formally the Chevrolet Motor Division of General Motors Company, is an American automobile division of the American manufacturer General Motors (GM). Louis Chevrolet (1878–1941) and ous ...

vehicles * LS, a model prefix on sailplanes made by Rolladen-Schneider Flugzeugbau GmbH * LS 90, a Czech and Slovak train protection system *

Lexus LS The is a full-size luxury sedan (F-segment in Europe) serving as the flagship model of Lexus, the luxury division of Toyota. For the first four generations, all LS models featured V8 engines and were predominantly rear-wheel-drive. In the fourt ...

, the flagship, full-size sedan made by Lexus * Lincoln LS, a model of car made from 2000 to 2006 * GM LS engine, a V-8 engine in General Motors cars

Other uses

La Salle (disambiguation) La Salle, LaSalle or Lasalle is part of the names of two men born in 17th century France, Jean-Baptiste de La Salle and René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, for whom many places and things are named. The name may refer to: Places Canada *La ...

, several places and educational institutions * Latvian lats (Ls or ℒ𝓈), former currency of Latvia * LaVeyan Satanism, a religious group * Leading Seaman, a junior non-commissioned rank in several navies *

Logistics Specialist The logistics specialist (LS) is a US Navy enlisted rating that was created on 1 October, 2009 by the merger of the storekeeper (SK) and postal clerk (PC) ratings. It also included the previous functions of the former aviation storekeeper (AK) r ...

, a rating in the United States Navy * Long snapper, a special teams player in American football * ''Lost Souls'' (online game), a MUD, or text-based online role-playing game * Sudanese pound, currency of Sudan, abbreviated to LS or £Sd *

Syrian pound The Syrian pound or lira ( ar, الليرة السورية, al-līra as-sūriyya; abbreviation: LS or SP in Latin, ل.س in Arabic, historically also £S, and £Syr; ISO code: SYP) is the currency of Syria. It is issued by the Central Bank o ...

, currency of Syria, abbreviated to LS or £S {{disambiguation