NS as an abbreviation can mean:

Arts and entertainment

Gaming

* ''Natural Selection'' (video game), a mod for the game ''Half-life'' * '' NetStorm: Islands At War'', a real-time strategy game published in 1997 by Activision *

Nintendo Switch The is a hybrid video game console developed by Nintendo and released worldwide in most regions on March 3, 2017. The console itself is a Tablet computer#Gaming tablet, tablet that can either be docking station, docked for use as a home video ...

, a hybrid video game console and handheld. * Jennifer Government: NationStates, a web-based simulation game

Literature

* ''

New Spring ''New Spring'' is a fantasy novel by American author Robert Jordan, a prequel in the ''Wheel of Time'' series. ''New Spring'' consists of 26 chapters and an epilogue. Background to publication "New Spring" was originally published as a novell ...

'' (known to fans as "NS"), a 1999 anthology edited by Robert Silverberg and derivative 2004 novella by Robert Jordan * NS-series robots from the book ''

I, Robot ''I, Robot'' is a fixup (compilation) novel of science fiction short stories or essays by American writer Isaac Asimov. The stories originally appeared in the American magazines ''Super Science Stories'' and ''Astounding Science Fiction'' betw ...

Companies

National Semiconductor National Semiconductor was an American semiconductor manufacturer which specialized in analog devices and subsystems, formerly with headquarters in Santa Clara, California. The company produced power management integrated circuits, display drive ...

(also known as "Natsemi"), an American integrated circuit design and manufacturing company *

Nederlandse Spoorwegen Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS; ; en, "Dutch Railways") is the principal passenger railway operator in the Netherlands. It is a Dutch state-owned company founded in 1938. The Dutch rail network is one of the busiest in the European Union, and the ...

, the main public transport railway company in the Netherlands *

Norfolk Southern Railway The Norfolk Southern Railway is a Class I freight railroad in the United States formed in 1982 with the merger of Norfolk and Western Railway and Southern Railway. With headquarters in Atlanta, the company operates 19,420 route miles (31 ...

, a major Class I railroad in the United States, owned by the Norfolk Southern Corporation *

Norfolk Southern Railway (1942–1982) The Norfolk Southern Railway(1881-1982) was the final name of a railroad that ran from Norfolk, Virginia, southwest and west to Charlotte, North Carolina. It was acquired by the Southern Railway in 1974, which merged with the Norfolk and Western ...

, the final name of a railroad running in Virginia and North Carolina before its acquisition by the Southern Railway in 1974

Government and politics

* '' Nasjonal Samling'', a 1930s Norwegian national socialist political party *

National service National service is the system of voluntary government service, usually military service. Conscription is mandatory national service. The term ''national service'' comes from the United Kingdom's National Service (Armed Forces) Act 1939. The l ...

, a name for the conscription system of some militaries * "National Socialism" or

Nazism Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Na ...

, the ideology held by, amongst many other political parties, the National Socialist German Workers Party * New Serbia (political party) (''Nova Srbija''), a political party in Serbia * People's Party (''Narodna stranka''), a political party in Serbia * New Slovenia (also known as ''Nova Slovenija - Krscanski Ljudska Stranka''), a right-of-centre political party in Slovenia *

People's Party (Montenegro) The People's Party ( sr, Народна странка, Narodna Stranka, abbr. НС/NS) was a conservative political party in Montenegro. History The party was established in 1990, after a multi-party system was introduced in Montenegro, and was ...

(''Narodna Stranka''), a political party in the Republic of Montenegro

Places

Negeri Sembilan Negeri Sembilan (, Negeri Sembilan Malay: ''Nogoghi Sombilan'', ''Nismilan'') is a state in Malaysia which lies on the western coast of Peninsular Malaysia. It borders Selangor on the north, Pahang in the east, and Malacca and Johor to the s ...

, one of the fourteen states in Malaysia *

Novi Sad Novi Sad ( sr-Cyrl, Нови Сад, ; hu, Újvidék, ; german: Neusatz; see below for other names) is the second largest city in Serbia and the capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina. It is located in the southern portion of the Pan ...

, a city in Serbia (license plate code) *

Nova Scotia Nova Scotia ( ; ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic provinces. Nova Scotia is Latin for "New Scotland". Most of the population are native Eng ...

, as the official Canadian postal abbreviation for the province

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

Nervous system In biology, the nervous system is the highly complex part of an animal that coordinates its actions and sensory information by transmitting signals to and from different parts of its body. The nervous system detects environmental changes th ...

, the system of neurons that coordinates the actions of an organism *

Normal saline Saline (also known as saline solution) is a mixture of sodium chloride (salt) and water. It has a number of uses in medicine including cleaning wounds, removal and storage of contact lenses, and help with dry eyes. By injection into a vein it ...

, a solution of sodium chloride used in intravenous drips

Computing

* Name server, a computer server that implements a name service protocol ** NS record, a DNS record type * Namespace, an abstract container used in computing * Neighbor Solicitation, part of IPv6's Neighbor Discovery Protocol *

NeXTSTEP NeXTSTEP is a discontinued object-oriented, multitasking operating system based on the Mach kernel and the UNIX-derived BSD. It was developed by NeXT Computer in the late 1980s and early 1990s and was initially used for its range of proprieta ...

, an object-oriented, multitasking operating system by NeXT, as well as a prefix for certain system-provided classes in the operating system, such as "NSString" *

ns (simulator) ns (from network simulator) is a name for a series of discrete event network simulators, specifically ns-1, ns-2, and ns-3. All are discrete-event computer network simulators, primarily used in research and teaching. History ns-1 The fi ...

(or "ns-2"), an open source network simulator

Mathematics

ns (elliptic function) In mathematics, the Jacobi elliptic functions are a set of basic elliptic functions. They are found in the description of the motion of a pendulum (see also pendulum (mathematics)), as well as in the design of electronic elliptic filters. While tr ...

, one of Jacobi's elliptic functions

Other uses in science and technology

* Nanosecond (abbreviated "ns"), a measure of time * Nanostructure *

Neutron star A neutron star is the collapsed core of a massive supergiant star, which had a total mass of between 10 and 25 solar masses, possibly more if the star was especially metal-rich. Except for black holes and some hypothetical objects (e.g. white ...

, a star formed from the collapsed remnant of a massive star *

New Shepard 3 New Shepard is a fully reusable suborbital launch vehicle developed by Blue Origin for space tourism. The vehicle is named after Alan Shepard, the first American astronaut in space. The vehicle is capable of vertical takeoff and vertical land ...

(NS3), a reusable launch vehicle from Blue Origin, being tested in 2017-18 *

Newton second The newton-second (also newton second; symbol: N⋅s or N s) is the unit of impulse in the International System of Units (SI). It is dimensionally equivalent to the momentum unit kilogram-metre per second (kg⋅m/s). One newton-secon ...

, the SI derived unit for momentum * Not significant, when differences between categories are smaller than the amount of error/noise in the data, see

Statistical significance In statistical hypothesis testing, a result has statistical significance when it is very unlikely to have occurred given the null hypothesis (simply by chance alone). More precisely, a study's defined significance level, denoted by \alpha, is the p ...

* Nuclear Ship (NS), a

ship prefix A ship prefix is a combination of letters, usually abbreviations, used in front of the name of a civilian or naval ship that has historically served numerous purposes, such as identifying the vessel's mode of propulsion, purpose, or ownership/n ...

for civilian ship names *

Norsk Standard Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to: *Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe *Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway *Demographics of Norway *The Norwegian language, including the ...

, Norwegian Standard, Standards defined by

Standard Norge Standards Norway ( no, Standard Norge, SN) is the main standards organization of Norway. It claims responsibility for all standardization areas except for electrotechnical and telecommunication issues. Standards Norway holds the right to the tradema ...

Other uses

National school (Ireland) In Ireland, a national school () is a type of primary school that is financed directly by the state, but typically administered jointly by the state, a patron body, and local representatives. In national schools, most major policies, such as the ...

, a type of school * New Style (as "N.S." in opposition to Old Style as "O.S."), indicating ''either'' a date in the Julian Calendar with the start of year adjusted to 1 January, or a date in the Gregorian calendar {{disambiguation