PSS may refer to:

Businesses and organizations

Government and military organizations

Palestinian Security Services The Palestinian Security Services (PSS) are the armed forces and intelligence agencies of the State of Palestine. They comprise several institutions, notably the Security Forces and the Police. The President of the Palestinian National Authori ...

, the armed forces and intelligence agencies of the State of Palestine *

Parliament Security Services Repercussion of bomb throwing incident in Lok Sabha Chamber, the then Central Legislative Assembly on 8 April 1929, The then President of Central Legislative Assembly, Shri Vithalbhai Patel, (24 August 1925 – April 1930) set up a ‘WATCH A ...

, in charge of providing security to the Parliament of India *

Presidential Security Service (South Korea) Presidential Security Service (PSS; Korean language, Korean: 대통령경호처) is a South Korean close protection agency. Based on the United States Secret Service, the South Korean PSS is an independent agency responsible for the protection of ...

, a South Korean close protection agency

Political parties

Sammarinese Socialist Party The Sammarinese Socialist Party ( it, Partito Socialista Sammarinese, PSS) was a socialist and, later, social-democratic political party in San Marino. Its Italian counterpart was the Italian Socialist Party and its international affiliation was w ...

( it, Partito Socialista Sammarinese, link=no), San Marino *

Senegalese Socialist Party The Senegalese Socialist Party (french: Parti Socialiste Sénégalais) was a political party in Senegal (at the time part of French West Africa). PSS was founded in July 1934 by Lamine Guèye, as a split from the French Section of the Workers' ...

(french: Parti Socialiste Sénégalais, link=no) *

Strength of Serbia Movement The Strength of Serbia Movement – BK ( sr, Покрет Снага Србије – БК, Pokret Snaga Srbije, PSS–BK) is a conservative political party in Serbia. History Party was founded in 2004. Its founder and current leader of PSS-B ...

(''Pokret snaga Srbije''), a political party in Serbia

Schools

Canada

Parkland Secondary School Parkland Secondary School is a public secondary school in North Saanich, a suburb of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. It is operated by School District 63 Saanich. It is one of three secondary schools in the school district and is located ...

, North Saanich, Victoria, British Columbia *

Penetanguishene Penetanguishene , sometimes shortened to Penetang, is a town in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada. It is located on the southeasterly tip of Georgian Bay. Incorporated on February 22, 1882, this bilingual ( French and English) community has a populat ...

Secondary School, Simcoe County District School Board, Ontario *

Penticton Secondary School Penticton Secondary School (Pen High or PSS) is a high school located in Penticton, British Columbia, Canada. PSS is operated by School District 67 Okanagan Skaha. It is one of two secondary schools in Penticton and one of three in the school di ...

, Penticton, British Columbia *

Pinetree Secondary School Pinetree Secondary School is a high school in School District 43 Coquitlam. It is located in Coquitlam, British Columbia across from Lafarge Lake, Town Centre Park and next to the David Lam Campus of Douglas College, Pinetree shares several facil ...

, Coquitlam, British Columbia *

Parkview Secondary School Parkview Secondary School was located at 60 Balsam Avenue Hamilton, Ontario, and was a member of the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board. Parkview Secondary School had a 2009–2010 enrollment of 333. The school's mission statement was "Educat ...

, Hamilton, Ontario

Elsewhere

* Pak Shama School, Doha, Qatar * Pakistan School Salalah, Salalah, Oman *

Park Secondary School Park Secondary School was a secondary school located in Dudley, West Midlands (formerly Worcestershire and later Staffordshire), England. It was opened in 1896 as Park (Demonstration) School to serve the expanding area to the west of Dudley town ...

, Dudley, West Midlands *

Popatlal Secondary School Popatlal Secondary School (PSS) was a co-educational, Private school, private, secondary school in the north-eastern Tanzanian city of Tanga, Tanzania, Tanga. It was one of the oldest schools in the city. History The school was established in 196 ...

, Tanga, Tanzania

Other businesses and organizations

Price Stern Sloan Price Stern Sloan (originally known as Price/Stern/Sloan) or PSS! was a publisher (now an imprint of the Penguin Group) that was founded in Los Angeles in the early 1960s to publish the Mad Libs that Roger Price and Leonard Stern had concocted ...

, a publishing imprint of Penguin *

Product Support Services Product Support Services, more commonly referred to as PSS, is the Microsoft business unit with primary responsibility for responding to end-user and partner requests for assistance with the company's products and services. Feedback and product dev ...

, a Microsoft business unit *

PSS World Medical PSS World Medical, Inc. was an American distributor of medical products, equipment, billing services and pharmaceutical related products to non-hospital healthcare providers. In 2008, the company celebrated its 25th year in business and was named ...

, an American distributor of medical products, equipment, billing services and pharmaceuticals * Pakistan Statistical Society, an academic and professional society of statisticians *

Społem PSS Społem is a Polish consumers' co-operative of local grocery stores founded in 1868. Each of the branches of PSS Społem during the Partitions of Poland were formed via different conditions in law, economy and politics. The common character o ...

or PSS Społem, a Polish consumers' co-operative of local grocery stores *

PSS (UK) PSS (UK) is a national social enterprise in the United Kingdom. Liverpool Personal Services Society was founded by Eleanor Rathbone and Dorothy Keeling in 1919, for over 100 years PSS has provided a range of support services. The charity oper ...

, a British social care charity *

Personal Software Services Personal Software Services (PSS) was a British software company based in Coventry, founded by Gary Mays and Richard Cockayne in 1981. The company was acquired by Mirrorsoft in 1987. PSS produced video games for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Ami ...

, a defunct British video game publisher

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

Perceived Stress Scale The Perceived Stress Scale was developed to measure the degree to which situations in one’s life are appraised as stressful. Psychological stress has been defined as the extent to which persons perceive (appraise) that their demands exceed their ...

, an instrument for measuring perceived stress in humans *

Porcine stress syndrome Porcine stress syndrome, also known as malignant hyperthermia or PSS, is a condition in pigs. It is characterised by hyperthermia triggered by stress, anaesthesia with halothane or intense exercise. PSS may appear as sudden death in pigs, often afte ...

, a condition in pigs *

Portosystemic shunt A portosystemic shunt or portasystemic shunt (medical subject heading term; PSS), also known as a liver shunt, is a bypass of the liver by the body's circulatory system. It can be either a congenital (present at birth) or acquired condition and occ ...

, a disease found in humans, cats and dogs *

Progressive systemic sclerosis Systemic scleroderma, or systemic sclerosis, is an autoimmune rheumatic disease characterised by excessive production and accumulation of collagen, called fibrosis, in the skin and internal organs and by injuries to small arteries. There are two m ...

, a rare chronic disease *

Psychosocial short stature Psychosocial short stature (PSS) is a growth disorder that is observed between the ages of 2 and 15, caused by extreme emotional deprivation or stress. The symptoms include decreased growth hormone (GH) and somatomedin secretion, very short stat ...

, a growth disorder that is caused by extreme stress

Computing

Packet Switch Stream In the United Kingdom, Packet Switch Stream (PSS) was an X.25-based packet-switched network, provided by the British Post Office Telecommunications and then British Telecommunications starting in 1980. After a period of pre-operational testing with ...

, a British packet-switched network *

Packet switching In telecommunications, packet switching is a method of grouping Data (computing), data into ''network packet, packets'' that are transmitted over a digital Telecommunications network, network. Packets are made of a header (computing), header and ...

, a method of grouping data that is transmitted over a digital network into packets *

Panorama Software Sys-On-Line Microsoft is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various ...

Passenger service system A passenger service system (PSS) is a series of critical systems used by airlines. The PSS usually comprises an airline reservations system, an airline inventory system and a departure control system (DCS). Modules Generally the PSS is made up ...

, systems used by airlines to manage reservations, inventory and check-in *

Performance supervision system A performance supervision system (PSS) is a software system used to improve the performance of a process plant. Typical process plants include oil refineries, paper mills, and chemical plants. The PSS gathers real-time data from the process co ...

, a software system used to improve the performance of a process plant *

Physical symbol system A physical symbol system (also called a formal system) takes physical patterns (symbols), combining them into structures (expressions) and manipulating them (using processes) to produce new expressions. The physical symbol system hypothesis (PSSH ...

, a hypothesis in artificial intelligence research *

Power system simulator for engineering Power System Simulator for Engineering (PSS®E—often written as PSS/E) is a software tool used by power system engineers to simulate electrical power transmission Electric power transmission is the bulk movement of electrical energy from a ...

(PSS®E or PSS/E), software to simulate electrical power transmission networks *

Probabilistic signature scheme Probabilistic Signature Scheme (PSS) is a cryptographic signature scheme designed by Mihir Bellare and Phillip Rogaway. RSA-PSS is an adaptation of their work and is standardized as part of PKCS#1 v2.1. In general, RSA-PSS should be used as a repl ...

, a secure way of creating signatures with RSA *

Proportional set size In computing, proportional set size (PSS) is the portion of main memory (RAM) occupied by a process and is composed by the private memory of that process plus the proportion of shared memory with one or more other processes. Unshared memory includin ...

, a measure of computer program memory use

Physics and chemistry

Periodic steady-state analysis Periodic Steady-State Analysis (PSS analysis) computes the periodic steady-state response of a circuit at a specified fundamental frequency, with a simulation time independent of the time constants of the circuit. The PSS analysis also determin ...

, type of simulation *''

Physica Status Solidi ''Physica Status Solidi'', often stylized ''physica status solidi'' or ''pss'', is a family of international peer-reviewed, scientific journals, publishing research on all aspects of solid state physics, and materials science. It is owned and publ ...

'', a family of academic journals focused on solid state physics *

Photostationary state The photostationary state of a reversible photochemical reaction is the equilibrium chemical composition under a specific kind of electromagnetic irradiation (usually a single wavelength of visible or UV radiation). It is a property of particul ...

, the equilibrium chemical composition under a specific kind of electromagnetic irradiation *

Plasma sound source A seismic source is a device that generates controlled seismic energy used to perform both reflection and refraction seismic surveys. A seismic source can be simple, such as dynamite, or it can use more sophisticated technology, such as a speci ...

, a means of making sonar underwater *

Polystyrene sulfonic acid Polystyrene sulfonates are a group of medications used to treat high blood potassium. Effects generally take hours to days. They are also used to remove potassium, calcium, and sodium from solutions in technical applications. Common side effect ...

, also known as sodium polystyrene sulfonate or poly(styrenesulfonate) *

Practical Salinity Scale Salinity () is the saltiness or amount of salt dissolved in a body of water, called saline water (see also soil salinity). It is usually measured in g/L or g/kg (grams of salt per liter/kilogram of water; the latter is dimensionless and equal ...

, the conductivity ratio of a sea water sample to a standard KCl solution

Other uses in technology

* PSS silent pistol, a Soviet-designed silent handgun *PortaSound PSS series, a series of portable Yamaha keyboards *Power scale soaring, a form of radio controlled model flying *Power system stabilizer, in power generation; see Wide-area damping control

Sports teams and stadia

Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Stadium Pakiasothy Saravanamuttu Stadium (Tamil: பாக்கியசோதி சரவணமுத்து மைதானம், si, පාකියසොති සර්වනමූත්තු ක්‍රීඩාංගනය) Colombo Oval o ...

, Colombo, Sri Lanka *

Philippine Sports Stadium The Philippine Sports Stadium, also known as New Era University (NEU) Stadium, is a football and track stadium at Ciudad de Victoria, a tourism enterprise zone in the towns of Bocaue and Santa Maria, Bulacan, Philippines. The stadium was b ...

, Bocaue, Philippines *

PFC Septemvri Sofia Septemvri ( bg, Септември) is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Sofia, which currently competes in the First League, the first tier of Bulgarian football. Its home ground is the Septemvri Stadium, but due to it ...

, a Bulgarian football club *

Porvoon Salibandyseura Porvoon Salibandyseura (PSS) is a Finnish sports club specialized on floorball. It was founded in 2003 when sports clubs ''Gammelbackan Terä'', ''SaFa'' and ''Porvoon Butchers'' were joined.http://www.porvoonsalibandyseura.net/103 Guide for PSS m ...

, a Finnish sports club *

PSS Sleman Perserikatan Sepakbola Sleman ( 'Sleman Football Union'), or mostly known through its abbreviation PSS, is a professional football club based in Sleman Regency, Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The club competes in the Liga 1 , the top ...

, an Indonesian football club

Other uses

Kaulong language Kaulong, or Pasismanua, is an Austronesian language spoken by about 4000 swidden farmers of the southwest hinterlands of Kandrian District, West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea on the island of New Britain New Britain ( tpi, Niu Br ...

(ISO 639:pss), an Austronesian language *

Libertador General José de San Martín Airport Libertador General José de San Martín Airport ( es, Aeropuerto de Posadas "Libertador General San Martín") is located southwest of the center of Posadas, a city in the Misiones Province of Argentina. The airport covers an area of 329 hectar ...

(IATA code PSS), Posadas, Misiones, Argentina *Player Search System, how '' Pokémon X'' and ''Y'' players can connect to each other around the world *'' Project SuperStar'' (abbreviated PSS), a Singaporean singing reality-competition franchise *

Product-service system Product-service systems (PSS) are business models that provide for cohesive delivery of products and services. PSS models are emerging as a means to enable collaborative consumption of both products and services, with the aim of pro-environmental ...

, a system of consumer access to products, as an alternative to personal product ownership *

Psalms The Book of Psalms ( or ; he, תְּהִלִּים, , lit. "praises"), also known as the Psalms, or the Psalter, is the first book of the ("Writings"), the third section of the Tanakh, and a book of the Old Testament. The title is derived ...

, a book of the Hebrew Bible *PSS, 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 ...

meaning Palau State Ship * PSS Nkwen kidnapping, a 2008 kidnapping at Presbyterian Secondary School in Nkwen, near Bamenda, Cameroon * PSS-line, a fortified defense line in Finland during World War II; see

Battle of Nietjärvi The Battle of Nietjärvi (15–17 July 1944) was part of the Continuation War between Finland and the Soviet Union, which occurred during World War II. The battle ended in a Finnish victory. Background: U-line prepares to meet a Soviet attack Nie ...