NSS may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

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New Star Soccer ''New Star Soccer'', also known as ''NSS'', is a series of football video games developed and published by New Star Games. The games let the player create and control a football player's career as he moves through the ranks of the leagues and nat ...

'', a computer game * ''

Newsstand Specials ''Playboy Special Editions'' (formerly known as ''flats'', then ''Newsstand Specials'') are a spin-off series of ''Playboy'' magazine containing glamour and softcore nude photographs. The initially infrequent and later semi-regular editions ra ...

'', a spinoff of ''Playboy'' magazine *

Nintendo Super System The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES), commonly shortened to Super NES or Super Nintendo, is a 16-bit home video game console developed by Nintendo that was released in 1990 in Japan and South Korea, 1991 in North America, 1992 in E ...

, an arcade game cabinet that plays Super NES games *

Northern Sound System Northern Sound System (NSS) is a dedicated youth centre focused on music, broadcasting, and other creative industries, located in Elizabeth, South Australia, Elizabeth, a northern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. Background The Northern So ...

, a youth music education centre and venue in Adelaide, South Australia * NSS, a 1958

computer chess Computer chess includes both hardware (dedicated computers) and software capable of playing chess. Computer chess provides opportunities for players to practice even in the absence of human opponents, and also provides opportunities for analysi ...

program

Organizations

Government bodies

* National Security Secretariat (United Kingdom), part of the Cabinet Office *

National Security Service (United States) The National Security Branch (NSB) is a service within the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The NSB is responsible for protecting the United States from weapons of mass destruction, acts of terrorism, and foreign intelligence operations and e ...

, an office in the American FBI *

National Security Service (Maldives) , image = Emblem of the Maldives National Defence Force.svg , alt = Emblem of the Defence Force , caption = Maldives National Defence Force emblem , image2 = Flag of the Maldives National Defe ...

, former name of the Maldivian armed forces *

National Security Service (Somalia) The National Security Service (NSS) ( so, Hay'ada Nabadsugida Qaranka, HNQ) was the primary intelligence agency of the Somali Democratic Republic from 1970 to 1990. The NSS was formed as under government of Siad Barre in 1970, modelled after the ...

, a former primary intelligence agency *

National Seismological Service The National Seismological Service ( es, Servicio Sismológico Nacional, SSN) is a seismological organization in Mexico that studies and records earthquake activity within the country. It is part of the Geophysics Institute at the National Auto ...

, an agency of the Mexican government *

National Service Scheme The National Service Scheme (NSS) is an Indian government sector public service program conducted by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports of the Government of India. Popularly known as NSS, the scheme was launched in Gandhiji's Centenary yea ...

, a Government of India-sponsored program for community service and social activities *

National Statistical Service of the Republic of Armenia The Statistical Committee of Armenia ( Armenian: Հայաստանի վիճակագրական կոմիտե) is the national statistical agency of Armenia. History The statistical institution started its main activities on 7 January 1922 and was ...

, former name of the Statistical Committee of Armenia *

NHS National Services Scotland NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) is a Non Departmental Public Body which provides advice and services to the rest of NHS Scotland. Accountable to the Scottish Government, NSS works at the heart of the health service, providing national str ...

, the central support agency to the NHS in Scotland

Political parties

People's Socialist Party of Montenegro The People Socialist Party of Montenegro ( sr, Народна социјалистичка странка Црне Горе, НСС ЦГ; ''Narodna socijalistička stranka Crne Gore'', ''NSS CG'') was an opposition political party in Montenegro w ...

, a political party in the Republic of Montenegro *

National Power Unity National Alliance Justice ( lv, Nacionālā Savienība Taisnīgums, NST), or simply Justice ( lv, Taisnīgums), previously known as National Power Union ( lv, Nacionālā Spēka Savienība, NSS) sometimes referred to as Union of National Force, is ...

, a far-right party in Latvia *

People's Peasant Party The People's Peasant Party ( sr, Народна Сељачка Странка, Narodna Seljačka Stranka; abbr. НСС or NSS) is an agrarian political party in Serbia. History It was founded in 1990, its first president being Dragan Vesel ...

(''Narodna seljačka stranka''), a political party in Serbia

Schools

National Sport School (Canada) The National Sport School (NSS) is a public high school (secondary school) in Calgary, Alberta which teaches grades 9 through 12. In partnership with Winsport Canada, the school was created to support student athletes with Olympic potential. Dev ...

, a high school in Alberta, Canada *

Nauru Secondary School Nauru Secondary School (abbreviated as NSS) is an upper Government school, public secondary school in the Yaren District, Nauru, located in the Nauru Learning Village, along with the University of the South Pacific Nauru Campus and the Nauru Techn ...

, a high school in Nauru *

National Socialist Schoolchildren's League The National Socialist Schoolchildren's League (Nationalsozialistischer Schülerbund), known under the acronyms NSS and more rarely NSSB, was a Nazi Party organisation for primary school pupils providing a student council and child protection sys ...

(''Nationalsozialistischer Schülerbund''), the organization for school pupils in the Third Reich *

Northbrooks Secondary School Northbrooks Secondary School (NBrSS) is a co-educational government secondary school located in Yishun, Singapore. History Northbrooks opened with its first intake on 3 January 2000 with eight Secondary 1 classes. Built at a cost of over S$23 mi ...

, a secondary school in Yishun, Singapore *

Northern Secondary School Northern Secondary School (often referred to as Northern Secondary, Northern, or NSS) is a public high school in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It teaches grades 9 through 12. It is a part of the Toronto District School Board (TDSB). Prior to Amalgama ...

, a high school in Toronto, Canada

Companies

National Screen Service The National Screen Service (NSS) was a company that controlled the distribution of theatrical advertising materials in the United States from approximately 1940 through the 1980s. It was located in Englewood, New Jersey. NSS was formed in 1920 to ...

, an American company involved in cinema advertising *

New Skies Satellites SES World Skies was a short lived company formed as a result of the merger between the two SES subsidiaries, ''SES Americom'' and ''SES New Skies''. The company was merged into its parent company, SES S.A. in 2011. History SES Americom ...

, the former name of the Dutch spacecraft operator SES NEW SKIES *

Norsk Spisevognselskap Norsk Spisevognselskap A/S, often abbreviated NSS or shortened to Spisevognselskapet (Norwegian for "The Dining Car Company"), was a Norwegian state enterprise which operated restaurant carriages on Norwegian trains and restaurants at railway ...

, a dining car company of Norway

Other organizations

Nair Service Society The Nair Service Society (NSS) is an organisation created for the social advancement and welfare of the Nair community that is found primarily in the state of Kerala in Southern part of India. It was established under the leadership of Mannathu ...

, a community welfare organization for the Nair community from Kerala, India *

National Space Society The National Space Society (NSS) is an American international nonprofit 501(c)(3) educational and scientific organization specializing in space advocacy. It is a member of the Independent Charities of America and an annual participant in the Combi ...

, an international space advocacy organization *

National Sculpture Society Founded in 1893, the National Sculpture Society (NSS) was the first organization of professional sculptors formed in the United States. The purpose of the organization was to promote the welfare of American sculptors, although its founding members ...

, US *

National Secular Society The National Secular Society (NSS) is a British campaigning organisation that promotes secularism and the separation of church and state. It holds that no one should gain advantage or disadvantage because of their religion or lack of it. It was ...

, a British organization *

National Speleological Society The National Speleological Society (NSS) is an organization formed in 1941 to advance the exploration, conservation, study, and understanding of caves in the United States. Originally headquartered in Washington D.C., its current offices are in H ...

, an American organization *

Nilachala Saraswata Sangha Nilachala Saraswata Sangha (NSS), ( Oriya: ନୀଳାଚଳ ସାରସ୍ବତ ସଂଘ; Hindi: नीलाचल सारस्वत संघ) is a religious organization that was founded by Swami Nigamananda Paramahansa Dev exclusi ...

, a religious organization *

, Indian government-sponsored public service programme

Politics and government

National Security Strategy (United States) The National Security Strategy (NSS) is a document prepared periodically by the executive branch of the United States that lists the national security concerns and how the administration plans to deal with them. The legal foundation for the docum ...

* National Shelter System, a database of emergency shelters in the US administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency *

National Student Survey The National Student Survey is an annual survey, launched in 2005, of all final year undergraduate degree students at institutions in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland within the United Kingdom. The survey is designed to assess undergrad ...

, a survey of final-year degree students in the UK *

Nuclear Security Summit The Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) is a world summit, aimed at preventing nuclear terrorism around the globe. The first summit was held in Washington, D.C., United States, on April 12–13, 2010. The second summit was held in Seoul, South Korea, i ...

, a summit on nuclear security established by US President Obama

Science and technology

Computing

Name Service Switch The Name Service Switch (NSS) connects the computer with a variety of sources of common configuration databases and name resolution mechanisms. These sources include local operating system files (such as , , and ), the Domain Name System (DNS), th ...

, a technology used in UNIX * Namespace Specific String, a part of the syntax of a Uniform Resource Name *

Network Security Services Network Security Services (NSS) is a collection of cryptographic computer libraries designed to support cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server applications with optional support for hardware TLS/SSL acceleration on the ...

, cryptographic software libraries for client and server security *

Network switching subsystem Network switching subsystem (NSS) (or GSM core network) is the component of a GSM system that carries out call out and mobility management functions for mobile phones roaming on the network of base stations. It is owned and deployed by mobi ...

, a component of the mobile-phone network *

Novell Storage Services Novell Storage Services (NSS) is a file system used by the Novell NetWare operating system. Support for NSS was introduced in 2004 to SUSE Linux via low-level network NCPFS protocol. It has some unique features that make it especially useful for ...

, a file system used by the Novell NetWare operating system * NSS, a 1958

program

Other uses in science and technology

Neurological soft signs Focal neurologic signs also known as focal neurological deficits or focal Central nervous system, CNS signs are impairments of Central nervous system, nerve, spinal cord, or Human brain, brain function that affects a specific region of the body, e. ...

, signs of disturbance in neurology * Neutral salt spray, a

salt spray test The salt spray test (or salt fog test) is a standardized and popular corrosion test method, used to check corrosion resistance of materials and surface coatings. Usually, the materials to be tested are metallic (although stone, ceramics, and polym ...

to qualify the corrosion resistance of coatings on metal * Normal saline solution, in medicine

Other uses

Naked short selling Naked short selling, or naked shorting, is the practice of short-selling a tradable asset of any kind without first borrowing the asset from someone else or ensuring that it can be borrowed. When the seller does not obtain the asset and deliv ...

, a restricted practice in stock trading * Nostalgia Super Stock, a drag racing class