PFS may refer to:

Medicine

Patellofemoral syndrome Patellofemoral pain syndrome (PFPS; not to be confused with jumper's knee) is knee pain as a result of problems between the kneecap and the femur. The pain is generally in the front of the knee and comes on gradually. Pain may worsen with sitti ...

, a type of knee disorder * Prefilled syringe, a syringe with a predetermined dosage of medication *

Prefrontal synthesis Prefrontal synthesis (PFS, also known as mental synthesis) is the conscious purposeful process of synthesizing novel mental images. PFS is neurologically different from the other types of imagination, such as simple memory recall and dreaming. Un ...

, in neurology, the conscious purposeful process of synthesizing novel mental images *

Progression-free survival Progression-free survival (PFS) is "the length of time during and after the treatment of a disease, such as cancer, that a patient lives with the disease but it does not get worse". In oncology, PFS usually refers to situations in which a tumor is p ...

, time without tumor progression in oncology * Post-finasteride syndrome, a term associated with adverse effects that persist beyond the discontinuation of the medication finasteride

Organisations

* Premium Fulfilment Services (PFS Group), National provider of 3PL solutions with operating companies in the US, UK and EU. *

Penang Free School , motto_translation = Strong and Faithful , streetaddress = Green Lane, , city = George Town , state = Penang , postcode = 11600 , country = Malaysi ...

, a well-recognized English school in Malaysia, in the state of Penang * Philadelphia Folksong Society, a Philadelphia organization promoting folk music * Princeton Friends School, a coeducational Quaker school in Princeton Township, New Jersey *

Property and Freedom Society The Property and Freedom Society (PFS) is a right-wing, anarcho-capitalist political organization located in Bodrum, Turkey. Founded in May 2006 under the stewardship of Hans-Hermann Hoppe, a Rothbardian political theorist and Professor Emerit ...

, an organization devoted to the promotion of property rights

Finance

* Personal finance society, a professional body for financial advisors in the United Kingdom *

Personal Financial Specialist Certified Public Accountant (CPA) is the title of qualified accountants in numerous countries in the English-speaking world. It is generally equivalent to the title of chartered accountant in other English-speaking countries. In the United Sta ...

, a financial planning credential granted by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants *

Primerica Financial Services Primerica, Inc. (NYSE: PRI) is a company that provides insurance, investment and financial services to middle income families in the United States and Canada. Primerica is the parent company of National Benefit Life Insurance Company, Prime ...

, an independent financial services company in North America

Technology

Perfect forward secrecy In cryptography, forward secrecy (FS), also known as perfect forward secrecy (PFS), is a feature of specific key agreement protocols that gives assurances that session keys will not be compromised even if long-term secrets used in the session key ...

, a property in cryptography * pfs:Write, an early PC word processor *

Planetary Fourier Spectrometer The Planetary Fourier Spectrometer (PFS) is an infrared spectrometer built by the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (Italian National Institute for Astrophysics) along with the Istituto di Fisica dello spazio Interplanetario and the Consiglio Naz ...

, an infrared spectrometer used by European Space Agency on their Venus Express Mission * Playstation File System, the filesystem used on the PlayStation 2 hard drive *

Professional File System The Professional File System is a filesystem originally developed commercially for the Amiga, now distributed on Aminet with a 4-clause BSD license. It is a compatible successor of AmiFileSafe (AFS), with an emphasis on added reliability and spe ...

, a third-party filesystem used on the Amiga *

PlaysForSure Microsoft PlaysForSure was a certification given by Microsoft to portable devices and content services that had been tested against several hundred compatibility and performance requirements. These requirements include codec support, Digital ri ...

, a marketing certification given by Microsoft to media players * Prepare for Shipment, a status which indicates products are ready for shipment from

Apple Online Store The Apple Store is a chain of retail stores owned and operated by Apple Inc. The stores sell various Apple products, including Mac personal computers, iPhone smartphones, iPad tablet computers, Apple Watch smartwatches, Apple TV digital medi ...

* Pre-Feasibility Study, an important preliminary study to determine if a mining project is economically feasible

Other

Peace and Friendship Stadium The Peace and Friendship Stadium ( el, Στάδιο Ειρήνης και Φιλίας, Stadio Eirinis kai Philias), commonly known by its acronym SEF, is a multi-purpose indoor arena that is located in Piraeus, on the coastal zone of Attica, Gre ...

, an Indoor sports Arena in Piraeus, Athens, Greece *

Picture Frame Seduction Picture Frame Seduction (PFS) is a hardcore punk band originally from Haverfordwest, Wales, but later jointly based in Cadiz and Málaga in Spain and London and Bristol in the UK. In their formative years in Wales the band was considered too aggr ...

, a Welsh punk rock band *

Port security Port security is part of a broader definition concerning maritime security. It refers to the defense, law and treaty enforcement, and counterterrorism activities that fall within the port and maritime domain. It includes the protection of the sea ...

(Port Facility Security) *

Pha̍k-fa-sṳ Pha̍k-fa-sṳ is an orthography similar to Pe̍h-ōe-jī and used to write Hakka, a variety of Chinese. Hakka is a whole branch of Chinese, and Hakka dialects are not necessarily mutually intelligible with each other, considering the large geogr ...

, an

orthography An orthography is a set of conventions for writing a language, including norms of spelling, hyphenation, capitalization, word breaks, emphasis, and punctuation. Most transnational languages in the modern period have a writing system, and mos ...

designed for the

Hakka Chinese Hakka (, , ) forms a language group of varieties of Chinese, spoken natively by the Hakka people throughout Southern China and Taiwan and throughout the diaspora areas of East Asia, Southeast Asia and in overseas Chinese communities around th ...

language * ''

Puta falta de sacanagem ''Puta falta de sacanagem'' is an Internet meme that appeared in Brazil in 2010. It originated from a phrase said by Georgia Massa, who was present in an autograph session of the Brazilian rock band Restart. After the information that the eve ...

'', an expression related to the Brazilian rock band Restart {{disambig