OSS or Oss may refer to:

Places

* Oss, a city and municipality in the Netherlands *

Osh Airport Osh International Airport ( ky, Ош эл аралык аэропорту; russian: Международный аэропорт "Ош") is an airport serving Osh, the capital of Osh Region (''oblast'') of Kyrgyzstan. In 2016, 1,210,576 passe ...

, IATA code OSS

People with the name

* Oss (surname), a surname

Arts and entertainment

* ''O.S.S.'' (film), a 1946 World War II spy film about Office of Strategic Services agents * ''O.S.S.'' (TV series), a British spy series which aired in 1957 in the UK and the US * Open Source Shakespeare, a non-commercial website with texts and statistics on Shakespeare's plays * Old Syriac Sinaiticus, a Bible manuscript * Organization of Super Spies, a fictional organization in the ''Spy Kids'' franchise

Education

ÖSS Student Selection and Placement System ( tr, Öğrenci Seçme ve Yerleştirme Sistemi, ÖSYS) or Higher Education Foundations Examination ( tr, Yükseköğretim Kurumları Sınavı, YKS), formerly Higher Education Examination Undergraduate Placemen ...

(Öğrenci Seçme Sınavı), a former university entrance exam in Turkey * Options Secondary School, Chula Vista, California * Otto Stern School for Integrated Doctoral Education, Frankfurt am Main, Germany *

Outram Secondary School Outram Secondary School is a co-educational government secondary school in Singapore. Founded in 1906 as Outram Road School, and later Outram School, it is one of the oldest schools in Singapore. It is also the only government school in Singapore ...

, Singapore

Organizations

Observatoire du Sahara et du Sahel The Sahara and Sahel Observatory (french: Observatoire du Sahara et du Sahel, OSS) is an African intergovernmental organisation established in 1992 and based in Tunis, Tunisia. Its aim is to protect the environment in Sahara and Sahel, supervise t ...

, dedicated to fighting desertification and drought; based in Tunis, Tunisia *

Office for Science and Society The Office for Science and Society (OSS) is an organization dedicated to science education, operating from Montreal's McGill University. Its staff and contributors use courses, mass media, special events and books to debunk pseudo-scientific my ...

, Science Education from Montreal's McGill University *

Office of Strategic Services The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was the intelligence agency of the United States during World War II. The OSS was formed as an agency of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) to coordinate espionage activities behind enemy lines for all branc ...

, World War II forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency * Office of the Supervising Scientist, an Australian Government body under the Supervising Scientist *

Offshore Super Series {{unreferenced, date=August 2015 The Offshore Super Series (OSS) is an offshore powerboat racing organization founded in December 2003 by 2 of the top offshore race boat teams in the United States. OSS is organized as a not for profit corporation, ...

, an offshore powerboat racing organization *

Open Spaces Society The Open Spaces Society is a campaign group that works to protect public rights of way and open spaces in the United Kingdom, such as common land and village greens. It is Britain's oldest national conservation body and a registered charity. Found ...

, a UK registered charity championing public paths and open spaces * Operations Support Squadron, a United States Air Force support squadron *

Optimized Systems Software Optimized Systems Software (OSS) was a company that produced disk operating systems, programming languages with integrated development environments, and applications primarily for the Atari 8-bit family of home computers. OSS was best known f ...

, a former software company

Science and technology

Ohio Sky Survey The Ohio Sky Survey was an astronomical survey of extragalactic radio sources. Data were taken between 1965 and 1971 using the Big Ear radio telescope at the Ohio State University Radio Observatory (OSURO), also known as the "Big Ear Radio Observ ...

Optical SteadyShot SteadyShot is the trademarked name of the integrated image stabilisation technologies used in Sony video camcorders, DSLR cameras, mirrorless cameras and on Sony Xperia smartphones and tablets. Different versions of these technologies are known as ...

, a lens-based image stabilization system by Sony * Optimal Stereo Sound, another name for the Jecklin Disk recording technique * Oriented spindle stop, a type of spindle motion used within some

G-code G-code (also RS-274) is the most widely used computer numerical control (CNC) programming language. It is used mainly in computer-aided manufacturing to control automated machine tools, and has many variants. G-code instructions are provided t ...

cycles * Ovary Sparing Spay (OSS) *

Overspeed Sensor System The Train Protection & Warning System (TPWS) is a train protection system used throughout the British passenger main-line railway network, and in Victoria, Australia. The British Rail Safety and Standards Board's definition is: The purpose of TP ...

(OSS), part of the Train Protection & Warning System for railroad trains

Computer software and hardware

OpenSearchServer OpenSearchServer is an open-source application server allowing development of index-based applications such as search engines. Available since April 2009 on SourceForge for download, OpenSearchServer was developed under the GPL v3 license and of ...

, search engine software *

Open Sound System The Open Sound System (OSS) is an interface for making and capturing sound in Unix and Unix-like operating systems. It is based on standard Unix devices system calls (i.e. POSIX read, write, ioctl, etc.). The term also sometimes refers to the ...

, a standard interface for making and capturing sound in Unix operating systems *

Open-source software Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose. Op ...

, software with its source code made freely available *

Operations support system Operations support systems (OSS), operational support systems in British usage, or Operation System (OpS) in NTT, are computer systems used by telecommunications service providers to manage their networks (e.g., telephone networks). They support ...

s, computers used by telecommunications service providers to administer and maintain network systems

Other uses

OSS Fighters The OSS Fighters is a Romanian kickboxing gym and promotion (entertainment), promotion. The company was founded in 2018, being one of the largest kickboxing promotions in Romania, alongside the Dynamite Fighting Show and the Colosseum Tournament. ...

, a Romania-based kickboxing promotion *

Order of St. Sava The Royal Order of St. Sava is an Order of merit, first awarded by the Kingdom of Serbia in 1883 and later by the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. It was awarded to nationals and foreigners for meritorious ach ...

, a Serbian decoration *

Ossetic language Ossetian (, , ), commonly referred to as Ossetic and rarely as Ossete (), is an Eastern Iranian language that is spoken predominantly in Ossetia, a region situated on both sides of the Greater Caucasus. It is the native language of the Ossetia ...

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