PPS commonly refers to: * Post-postscript, an afterthought, usually in a document. PPS may also refer to:

Aviation

Puerto Princesa International Airport Puerto Princesa International Airport is an airport serving the general area of Puerto Princesa, located in the province of Palawan in the Philippines. It is classified as an international airport by the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philipp ...

, Palawan, Philippines (by IATA code) * Priority Passenger Service, in

Singapore Airlines Singapore Airlines (abbreviation: SIA or SQ) is the flag carrier of Singapore with its Airline hub, hub located at Changi Airport. Considered to be one of the world's best carriers, the airline is ranked as a 5-star airline as well as ranked ...

' frequent flyer programme

Business and finance

Pay per sale Pay-per-sale or PPS (sometimes referred to as cost-per-sale or CPS) is an online advertisement pricing system where the publisher or website owner is paid on the basis of the number of sales that are directly generated by an advertisement. It is a ...

, a payment method used in affiliate marketing * Premium Packaged Spirits or Pre-Packaged Spirits, a term for alcopops * Purchasing power standard, an artificial currency unit * Public Procurement Service, a South Korean government agency

Government

* Parliamentary Private Secretary, a UK and New Zealand government post *

Parliamentary Protective Service The Parliamentary Protective Service (PPS; , ) is the office of the Parliament of Canada which provides physical security within the Parliament Hill#Grounds and name, Parliamentary Precinct in Ottawa, Ontario. Policy direction is set by the spea ...

, a Canadian law enforcement agency * Partnership for Prosperity and Security in the Caribbean, an agreement between nations in the Caribbean region *

Personal Public Service Number The Personal Public Service Number (PPS Number or simply PPSN) (, or ) is a unique identifier of individuals in Ireland, acting as a national identification number. It is issued by the Client Identity Services section of the Department of Socia ...

, an identifier used in the Republic of Ireland *

Planning Policy Statements {{Use British English, date=August 2024 Planning Policy Statements (PPS) were UK government statements of national policy and principles towards certain aspects of the town planning framework. In recent years they only applied to England. Howeve ...

, under the UK's Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 * Principal Private Secretary, a senior civil service post supporting a cabinet minister in the United Kingdom *

Prospective payment system A prospective payment system (PPS) is a term used to refer to several payment methodologies for which means of determining insurance reimbursement is based on a predetermined payment regardless of the intensity of the actual service provided. It in ...

, a health care payment model in the United States * Public Prosecution Service (disambiguation), various bodies charged with bringing criminal prosecutions to court * Public Procurement Service, South Korea * Provincial Police Service (disambiguation), state civil service for police in India

Education

Paterson Public Schools The Paterson Public Schools (PPS) is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade from Paterson, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The district is one of 31 former Abbott distric ...

, a school district in New Jersey, US *

Pawhuska Public Schools Pawhuska Public Schools (PPS) is a school district headquartered in Pawhuska, Oklahoma. It includes Pawhuska, Nelagoney, and a small portion of Pershing. David Cash was the superintendent until his retirement in 2023. Cash continued to work f ...

, a school district in Oklahoma, US * Peoria Public Schools, a school district in Illinois, US * Princeton Public Schools, another New Jersey school district *

Pittsburgh Public Schools Pittsburgh Public Schools is the public school district serving the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and adjacent Mount Oliver, Pennsylvania. As of the 2021–2022 school year, the district operates 54 schools with 4,192 employees (2,070 teach ...

, a school district in Pennsylvania, US *

Portland Public Schools (Oregon) Portland Public Schools (PPS; officially Portland School District 1J) is a State school, public school district located in Portland, Oregon, United States. It is the largest school district in the state of Oregon. It is a PK–12 district with ...

, another US school district * Politics, Psychology and Sociology, an undergraduate degree course at the University of Cambridge

Political parties

* Pact for Sicily (), Italy *

Party of Progress and Socialism The Party of Progress and Socialism (; ; , PPS) is a left-wing socialist political party in Morocco. History and profile The party was founded in 1974 by Ali Yata as the successor of Moroccan Communist Party and Party of Liberation and Socia ...

, Morocco * Pirate Party Switzerland *

Polish Socialist Party The Polish Socialist Party (, PPS) is a democratic socialist political party in Poland. It was one of the most significant parties in Poland from its founding in 1892 until its forced merger with the communist Polish Workers' Party to form ...

() *

Popular Socialist Party (Brazil) Cidadania () is a Brazilian political party. It was originally founded as the Popular Socialist Party (, PPS) by members of the former Brazilian Communist Party (PCB), as a centre-left social democratic and democratic socialist party. Despite ...

Popular Socialist Party (Mexico) The Popular Socialist Party (, PPS) is an unregistered political party in Mexico. It was founded in 1948 as the Popular Party (''Partido Popular'') by Vicente Lombardo Toledano. Lombardo Toledano, the initial leader of the Confederation of Mex ...

Science and technology

Computing

* .pps, or PowerPoint Show, a file format used by the Microsoft PowerPoint presentation software * Packets per second, a measure of throughput * PPS.tv, Chinese peer-to-peer streaming video network software * Programmable power supply * Proofpoint Protection Server, a commercial product to detect and quarantine spam * Pulse per second signal, in the Network Time Protocol

Medicine

* Parkinson plus syndrome, a group of neurodegenerative diseases * Pentosan polysulfate, a drug used to treat interstitial cystitis *

Popliteal pterygium syndrome Popliteal pterygium syndrome (PPS) is a rare inherited genetic disorder characterized by distinctive craniofacial, musculoskeletal and genitorourinary symptoms. It is primarily caused by a mutation to the ''IRF6'' gene and follows an autosomal dom ...

, an inherited condition affecting the face, limbs, and genitalia *

Post-polio syndrome Post-polio syndrome (PPS, poliomyelitis sequelae) is a group of latent symptoms of poliomyelitis (polio), occurring in more than 80% of polio infections. The symptoms are caused by the damaging effects of the viral infection on the nervous syst ...

, a condition that affects some people who have previously survived an acute attack of poliomyelitis * Puppy pregnancy syndrome, a delusional illness in humans

Military technology and weapons

* Precise Positioning Service, a military Global Positioning System feature * PPS submachine gun, a Soviet WWII-era submachine gun *

Walther PPS The Walther PPS (''Polizei-Pistole Schmal'' / Police Pistol Slim) is a semi-automatic pistol developed by the Germany, German company Walther arms, Carl Walther GmbH Sportwaffen of Ulm for Concealed carry in the United States, concealed carry for ...

, a compact semi-automatic pistol

Organic chemistry

Poly(p-phenylene sulfide) Polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) is an organic polymer consisting of aromatic rings linked by thioether, sulfides. Synthetic fiber and textiles derived from this polymer resist chemical and thermal attack. PPS is used in air filter, filter fabric fo ...

, a thermoplastic polymer ** PPS film capacitor, with a polyphenylene sulfide dielectric * PPS Silent Surfactant, a cleavable detergent in biochemistry

Other uses

* Popular Patristics Series, a book series by St. Vladimir's Seminary Press *

Project for Public Spaces Project for Public Spaces (PPS) is a nonprofit organization based in New York dedicated to creating and sustaining public places that build communities A community is a Level of analysis, social unit (a group of people) with a shared socia ...

, a US nonprofit organization * '' Puyo Puyo Sun'', a 1996 puzzle video game * '' Princess Peach: Showtime!'', a 2024 video game * Premier Program Service (a.k.a. PPS), a proposed, but never launched, fifth television network that would have been operated by

MCA Inc. MCA Inc. (originally an initialism for Music Corporation of America) was an American media conglomerate founded in 1924. Originally a talent agency with artists in the music business as clients, the company became a major force in the film indus ...

& Paramount Communications