LS may refer to:

Businesses

* LS Group, a Korean company * Jet2.com (IATA code: LS), a British airline

Latin

* Lewis and Short (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 ( hr, Liberalna stranka or LS), a Croatian political party active from 1998–2006 * Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School, Massachusetts, US * Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India * Loyola Schools, 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, 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 (LS) or Virgo Superclaster, our galaxy supercluster

Biology and medicine

* Lung surfactant, a lipoprotein complex * Legius syndrome, also known as Neurofibromatosis 1-like syndrome, a genetic disorder * Lichen sclerosus, a skin disease * Linnean Society of London, 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 sa ...

, 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, 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

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), 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, 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