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: 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 the President 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 (french: Parti Socialiste Sénégalais, link=no) * Strength of Serbia Movement (''Pokret snaga Srbije''), a political party in Serbia

Schools

Canada

* Parkland Secondary School, 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 populati ...

Secondary School, Simcoe County District School Board, Ontario * Penticton Secondary School, 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, 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 tow ...

, Dudley, West Midlands * Popatlal Secondary School, 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, 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 ...

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 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, 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 into '' packets'' that are transmitted over a digital network. Packets are made of a header and a payload. Data in the header is used by networking hardware to direct the p ...

, 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 u ...

, 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 ...

, 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 (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 re ...

, a secure way of creating signatures with RSA * Proportional set size, 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 p ...

'', a family of academic journals focused on solid state physics * Photostationary state, the equilibrium chemical composition under a specific kind of electromagnetic irradiation * Plasma sound source, a means of making sonar underwater * Polystyrene sulfonic acid, 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, 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 (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, Misiones, Posadas, a city in the Misiones Province of Argentina. The airport covers an ...

(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 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