STS, or sts, may refer to:

Medicine

Secondary traumatic stress Compassion fatigue is a condition characterized by emotional and physical exhaustion leading to a diminished ability to empathize or feel compassion for others, often described as the negative cost of caring. It is sometimes referred to as secondar ...

, a condition which leads to a diminished ability to empathize *

Sequence-tagged site A sequence-tagged site (or STS) is a short (200 to 500 base pair) DNA sequence that has a single occurrence in the genome and whose location and base sequence are known. Usage STSs can be easily detected by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) usin ...

, a gene-reference in genomics *

Soft-tissue sarcoma A soft-tissue sarcoma (STS) is a malignant tumour, a type of cancer, that develops in soft tissue. A soft tissue sarcoma is often a painless mass that grows slowly over months or years. They may be superficial or deep-seated. Any such unexplaine ...

Staurosporine Staurosporine (antibiotic AM-2282 or STS) is a natural product originally isolated in 1977 from the bacterium ''Streptomyces staurosporeus''. It was the first of over 50 alkaloids to be isolated with this type of bis-indole chemical structure. The ...

, an antibiotic *

STS (gene) Steroid sulfatase (STS), or steryl-sulfatase (EC 3.1.6.2), formerly known as arylsulfatase C, is a sulfatase enzyme involved in the metabolism of steroids. It is encoded by the ''STS'' gene. Reactions This enzyme catalyses the following chem ...

, which codes for steroid sulfatase * Superior temporal sulcus

Places

Semipalatinsk Test Site The Semipalatinsk Test Site (Russian: Семипалатинск-21; Semipalatinsk-21), also known as "The Polygon", was the primary testing venue for the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons. It is located on the steppe in northeast Kazakhstan (then t ...

for Soviet nuclear weapons * Staffordshire, county in England, Chapman code

Transport

Cadillac STS The Cadillac STS (Seville Touring Sedan) is a mid-sized luxury 4-door sedan manufactured and marketed by General Motors from 2004 to 2011 for the 2005 to 2011 model years. A version of the STS was sold in China as the SLS through 2013. It was ...

, a luxury car * NASA

Space Transportation System The Space Transportation System (STS), also known internally to NASA as the Integrated Program Plan (IPP), was a proposed system of reusable crewed space vehicles envisioned in 1969 to support extended operations beyond the Apollo program. ( ...

, the system in which the NASA shuttle is part of and only surviving component of; starting as a 1969 NASA proposal system for reusable space vehicles ** NASA

Space Shuttle program The Space Shuttle program was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished routine transportation for Earth-to-orbit crew and cargo from 1981 to 2011. I ...

, the shuttle program itself, whose mission were referred to with STS-numbering * Sail training ship, a ship prefix * Satellite Transit System, now called the

SEA Underground The SEA Underground, formerly called the Satellite Transit System (STS), is an automated people mover (APM) system operating in the Seattle–Tacoma International Airport in SeaTac, Washington, United States. Originally opening in 1973, the SEA ...

, airport transit in Seattle-Tacoma International Airport * Ship-to-ship transfer, between seagoing ships * '' Société de transport de Sherbrooke'', a public bus system in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada * ''

Société de transport du Saguenay Société de transport du Saguenay (STS) is the public transport company in Saguenay, Quebec, Canada, formerly the ''Corporation intermunicipale de transport du Saguenay (CITS)''. They operate from three main terminals located in the boroughs of ...

'', a public bus system in Saguenay, Quebec, Canada * Sonar Technician Submarine, a US Navy rating * STS, the IATA airport code for

Charles M. Schulz - Sonoma County Airport Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was " ...

* STS, the National Rail code for Saltash railway station, Cornwall, UK

Science and technology

* Space Tourism Society *

Scanning tunneling spectroscopy Scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS), an extension of scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), is used to provide information about the density of electrons in a sample as a function of their energy. In scanning tunneling microscopy, a metal tip i ...

Science and technology studies Science and technology studies (STS) is an interdisciplinary field that examines the creation, development, and consequences of science and technology in their historical, cultural, and social contexts. History Like most interdisciplinary fie ...

Sociotechnical system Sociotechnical systems (STS) in organizational development is an approach to complex organizational work design that recognizes the interaction between people and technology in workplaces. The term also refer to coherent systems of human relatio ...

Special treatment steel Special treatment steel (STS), also known as protective deck plate, was a type of warship armor developed by Carnegie Steel around 1910. History STS is a homogeneous Krupp-type steel developed around 1910. The development of such homogeneous st ...

, used by the US Navy c.1910 *

Static transfer switch A transfer switch is an electrical switch that switches a load between two sources. Some transfer switches are manual, in that an operator effects the transfer by throwing a switch, while others are automatic and trigger when they sense one of t ...

, a semiconductor switch *

STS 5 __NOTOC__ Mrs. Ples is the popular nickname for the most complete skull of an ''Australopithecus africanus'' ever found in South Africa. Many ''Australopithecus'' fossils have been found near Sterkfontein, about northwest of Johannesburg, in a r ...

an ''Australopithecus'' specimen * Suomenkielisten teknikkojen seura, now incorporated into

Academic Engineers and Architects in Finland TEK Academic Engineers and Architects in Finland TEK ( fi, Tekniikan Akateemisten Liitto TEK, sv, Teknikens Akademikerförbund) is a Finnish trade union of university-educated engineers, architects and scientists. In addition, the TEK is a learned ...

Computing and communications

HTTP Strict Transport Security HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) is a policy mechanism that helps to protect websites against man-in-the-middle attacks such as protocol downgrade attacks and cookie hijacking. It allows web servers to declare that web browsers (or other co ...

Security token service Security token service (STS) is a cross-platform open standard core component of the OASIS group's WS-Trust web services single sign-on infrastructure framework specification.. Within that claims-based identity framework, a secure token service i ...

, a web service * Set Transmit State, hex 93 in the C1 set of control codes * Spring Tool Suite, IDE for

Spring Framework The Spring Framework is an application framework and inversion of control container for the Java platform. The framework's core features can be used by any Java application, but there are extensions for building web applications on top of the J ...

* Station-to-Station protocol, a cryptographic key agreement scheme *

Synergy Teleconferencing System {{Unreferenced, date=December 2009 Synergy Teleconferencing System (STS) was a PC-based online chat server popular in the 1980s and 1990s. It arose as a replacement for the outdated Diversi-Dial system (DDial). Like DDial, it was a multi-line modem ...

, a PC-based chat server * '' Serviciul de Telecomunicaţii Speciale'', the Romanian special telecommunication service * STS Relay, US speech to speech relay service for people with a speech disability *

STS (TV channel) CTC (Pronounced as STS, stands for russian: Сеть Телевизионных Станций, , Network of television stations) is a commercial television station based in Moscow, Russia. It belongs to the CTC Media company. The company is own ...

, Russia * Synchronous transport signal, in

synchronous optical networking Synchronous optical networking (SONET) and synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH) are standardized protocols that transfer multiple digital bit streams synchronously over optical fiber using lasers or highly coherent light from light-emitting dio ...

Culture

* Satanas, a Filipino-American gang * Stepover toehold sleeper, a wrestling hold *

S.T.S. S.T.S. (also ''STS''; acronym for "Steinbäcker – Timischl – Schiffkowitz") was a three-member Austropop band from Graz in Austria. Its most famous songs are " Großvater", "Irgendwann bleib i dann dort", "Gö, du bleibst heut Nacht bei m ...

, an Austropop band

Societies, organizations and companies

* Scottish Tartans Society, a defunct Scottish society *

Sisu Terminal Systems Sisu Terminal Systems Oy (STS) was a Finnish terminal tractor producer. The production began in 1969 as a part of Suomen Autoteollisuus (SAT) and the first vehicles were based on lorry components. The portfolio grew by time. The production facili ...

, a former terminal tractor producer * Society of the Holy Trinity (Societas Trinitatis Sanctae – STS), Lutheran ministerium *

Suomen Työväen Säästöpankki National Workers' Savings Bank (1971-1989) (In Finnish; ''Suomen Työväen Säästöpankki'', in Swedish; ''Arbetarsparbanken'') or STS-Bank (1989-1992) was a Finnish savings bank and commercial bank. Workers' savings banks were syndicalist, ...

, a defunct Finnish commercial bank * Hitachi Rail STS, formerly known as Ansaldo STS, a company specializing in railway signalling and control systems

Other uses

Saints In religious belief, a saint is a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of holiness, likeness, or closeness to God. However, the use of the term ''saint'' depends on the context and denomination. In Catholic, Eastern Orth ...

, the plural of Saint, for example: Sts. Peter and Paul * Short-term business statistics *

Strathcona-Tweedsmuir School Strathcona-Tweedsmuir School is a private university prep school in Okotoks, Alberta, Canada. It has students in Grades K to 12, with its Grade 12 Achievement test, provincial exam scores consistently highly ranked. Strathcona-Tweedsmuir is South ...

, Alberta, Canada *

Susquehannock Trail System The Susquehannock Trail System (STS) is an loop hiking trail in Susquehannock State Forest in Potter County (with a few short segments in Clinton County) in north-central Pennsylvania, United States. The trail walks through two state parks and ...

, Pennsylvania, US