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Businesses and organisations


Businesses

* Pacific Telemanagement Services, an American payphone operator *
Public Television Service Taiwan Public Television Service Foundation (PTS Foundation/Public Television Service Foundation, ), also called Public Television Service (PTS, ), is the first independent public broadcasting institution in Taiwan, which broadcasts the Public Te ...
, public broadcaster in Taiwan *
Swedish Post and Telecom Authority The Swedish Post and Telecom Authority ( sv, Post- och telestyrelsen, abbreviated PTS) is a government authority under the Ministry of Infrastructure (Sweden) and is managed by a board of directors appointed by the Swedish government. The Director- ...
(Swedish: Post- och telestyrelsen, PTS)


Politics

* São Toméan Workers Party (Portuguese: Partido Trabalhista Santomense, PTS) *
Socialist Workers' Party (Argentina) The Socialist Workers' Party ( es, Partido de los Trabajadores Socialistas, PTS), previously known as the Workers Party for Socialism (''Partido de Trabajadores por el Socialismo''), is a Trotskyist political party in Argentina. It was founded in ...
(Spanish: Partido de los Trabajadores Socialistas, PTS)


Schools and colleges

* Palmer Trinity School, Palmetto Bay, Florida, U.S. *
Pittsburgh Theological Seminary Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (PTS) is a Presbyterian graduate seminary in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1794, it houses one of the largest theological libraries in the tri-state area. History Pittsburgh Theological Seminary was formed ...
, Pennsylvania, U.S. *
Princeton Theological Seminary Princeton Theological Seminary (PTSem), officially The Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian Church, is a private school of theology in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1812 under the auspices of Archibald Alexander, the General Assembly of ...
, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.


Other organisations

* Protestant Truth Society, a British religious organisation


Science, technology and mathematics


Biology and medicine

* PTS (gene), 6-pyruvoyltetrahydropterin synthase, a human gene *
Peroxisomal targeting signal In biochemical protein targeting, a peroxisomal targeting signal (PTS) is a region of the peroxisomal protein that receptors recognize and bind to. It is responsible for specifying that proteins containing this motif are localised to the peroxis ...
, in biochemical protein targeting *
PEP group translocation PEP group translocation, also known as the phosphotransferase system or PTS, is a distinct method used by bacteria for sugar uptake where the source of energy is from phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP). It is known to be a multicomponent system that always i ...
, or phosphotransferase system, a method used by bacteria for sugar uptake * Parsonage–Turner syndrome, a medical condition *
Post-thrombotic syndrome Post-thrombotic syndrome (PTS), also called postphlebitic syndrome and venous stress disorder is a medical condition that may occur as a long-term complication of deep vein thrombosis (DVT). Signs and symptoms Signs and symptoms of PTS in the leg ...
, a medical condition *
Post-traumatic stress disorder Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental and behavioral disorder that can develop because of exposure to a traumatic event, such as sexual assault, warfare, traffic collisions, child abuse, domestic violence, or other threats on ...
, a medical condition


Computing

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Pay to surf Pay to surf (PTS) is an online business model which gained popularity in the late 1990’s and experienced a significant decline following the dot-com crash. PTS companies advertised their main advantage as sharing the advertising revenue with the ...
, an early internet business model *
Phoronix Test Suite Phoronix Test Suite (PTS) is a free and open-source benchmark software for Linux and other operating systems which is developed by Michael Larabel and Matthew Tippett. The Phoronix Test Suite has been endorsed by sites such as Linux.com, LinuxPl ...
, benchmark software * Presentation time stamp, metadata in MPEG video or other streams *
Pseudoterminal In some operating systems, including Unix and Linux, a pseudoterminal, pseudotty, or PTY is a pair of pseudo-device endpoints (files) which establish asynchronous, bidirectional communication ( IPC) channel (with two ports) between two or more pr ...
Slave


Other uses in science, technology and mathematics

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Pure type system __NOTOC__ In the branches of mathematical logic known as proof theory and type theory, a pure type system (PTS), previously known as a generalized type system (GTS), is a form of typed lambda calculus that allows an arbitrary number of sorts and d ...
in mathematical logic *
PTS (amphibious vehicle) The PTS is a Soviet tracked amphibious transport. PTS stands for ''Plavayushchij Transportyer - Sryednyj'' or medium amphibious transport vehicle. Its industrial index was Ob'yekt 65. Introduced in 1965, it is large, with a substantial payload ...
, a Soviet vehicle *
Probability of Technical Success Probability is the branch of mathematics concerning numerical descriptions of how likely an event is to occur, or how likely it is that a proposition is true. The probability of an event is a number between 0 and 1, where, roughly speaking ...
in Clinical Trials


Other uses

* PTS, abbreviation for a points decision in combat sports * Pts or ₧, Peseta (disambiguation), a number of currencies * pts, abbreviation for the plural of
pint The pint (, ; symbol pt, sometimes abbreviated as ''p'') is a unit of volume or capacity in both the imperial unit, imperial and United States customary units, United States customary measurement systems. In both of those systems it is tradition ...
, a unit of capacity * Personal Track Safety, a British system of safer working practices on railways * Potential Trouble Source, in Scientology *
Kind Space Kind Space (formerly known as PTS - Pink Triangle Services) is an LGBT community centre located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. They are the oldest registered LGBT-specific charity in Canada, becoming registered in 1984. The organization serves gay, ...
, formerly Pink Triangle Services, an LGBT community centre in Ottawa, Canada


See also

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Point (typography) In typography, the point is the smallest unit of measure. It is used for measuring font size, leading, and other items on a printed page. The size of the point has varied throughout printing's history. Since the 18th century, the size of a poi ...
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