VSS may refer to:
Organizations
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Vegetarian Society (Singapore)
Vegetarian Society (Singapore) or VSS is a non-profit, non-denominational organisation. The Singapore-registered charity was established in 1999 to "Promote vegetarianism among the public and support and link individuals and organizations that ...
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Vernon Secondary School
Vernon Secondary is a public high school in Vernon, British Columbia, Canada. It is part of School District 22 Vernon.
Symbols
A panther is the school mascot (closely resembling the Florida Panthers of the NHL) and the institution's recreationa ...
, a high school in Vernon, B.C.
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Veronis Suhler Stevenson
Veronis Suhler Stevenson, known by its initials, VSS, is a private investment firm that invests in the information, business services, healthcare IT, education, media and marketing industries in North America and Europe.
Since 1987, VSS has mana ...
, media company
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Voluntary Sports Societies of the Soviet Union
Voluntary Sports Societies (VSS) of the USSR (russian: Добровольные спортивные общества (ДСО) СССР, Dobrobolvolnye Sportivye Obshestva SSSR (DSO SSSR)) were the main structural parts of the universal sports and ...
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FC VSS Košice
FC VSS Košice was a Slovak football club based in Košice which played in the Slovak 2. Liga during the 2016–17 season. The club officially ceased operations on 27 July 2017.
The club, founded in 1903, has won the Slovak League twice, the S ...
, a Slovak football club
Science and technology
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Variable structure system
A variable structure system, or VSS, is a discontinuous nonlinear system of the form
:\dot = \varphi( \mathbf, t )
where \mathbf \triangleq _1, x_2, \ldots, x_n \in \mathbb^n is the state vector, t \in \mathbb is the time variable, and \varphi(\ma ...
, a class of discontinuous nonlinear systems
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Vehicle speed sensor, in automobiles
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Verifiable secret sharing
In cryptography, a secret sharing scheme is verifiable if auxiliary information is included that allows players to verify their shares as consistent. More formally, verifiable secret sharing ensures that even if the dealer is malicious there is a ...
, a cryptographic primitive
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Video surveillance system, cameras and other systems combined together to allow remote video monitoring
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Visual SourceSafe
Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS) is a discontinued source control program oriented towards small software development projects. Like most source control systems, SourceSafe creates a ''virtual library'' of computer files. While most commonly used ...
, a source control software system produced by Microsoft
* Vital signs stable, in
List of medical abbreviations: V
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Volatile suspended solids
Volatile suspended solids (VSS) is a water quality measure obtained from the loss on ignition of the mass of measured total suspended solids. This ignition generally takes place in an oven at a temperature of 550 °C to 600 °C. It repres ...
, a water quality measure
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Voltage symmetrization system
Voltage Symmetrization System (VSS) was developed especially for electric power networks with great phase voltage unbalance. It is a three-phase system which enables earth-fault current and charging current elimination. Until now, the operation ...
in power engineering
* Volume Snapshot Service, or
Shadow Copy
Shadow Copy (also known as Volume Snapshot Service, Volume Shadow Copy Service or VSS) is a technology included in Microsoft Windows that can create backup copies or snapshots of computer files or volumes, even when they are in use. It is imple ...
, in Microsoft Windows
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Visual Surround Sound /
Visual Surround System : when surround sound is created and perceived with less sources than real surround system.
* V
SS, a negative
IC power-supply pin
IC power-supply pins denote a voltage and current supply terminals in electric, electronics engineering, and in Integrated circuit design. Integrated circuits (ICs) have at least two pins that connect to the power rails of the circuit in which t ...
in FET ICs
Other
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SNV (typeface)
SNV (also called VSS) is a sans-serif typeface used on road signs in several European countries. It was originally defined by the Association of Swiss Road Traffic Experts (German: ''Vereinigung Schweizerischer Strassenfachleute'', VSS) and the S ...
, also called VSS
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The VSS
The VSS was an American rock band from Boulder, Colorado, United States.
History
The VSS formed in 1995 after the breakup of the hardcore group Angel Hair. Vocalist Sonny Kay and guitarist Josh Hughes had both played in Angel Hair; the rest of ...
, an American rock band
* Virgin Space Ship, name prefix for
Virgin Galactic
Virgin Galactic is an American spaceflight company founded by Richard Branson and his British Virgin Group retains an 11.9% stake through Virgin Investments Limited. It is headquartered in California, and operates from New Mexico. The company i ...
's spacecraft
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VSS Vintorez
The 6P29 and 6P30 ( GRAU Indices), commonly known as the VSS "Thread Cutter" (Russian: ВСС «Винторе́з» Винто́вка Сна́йперская Специа́льная, romanized: ''Vintóvka Snáyperskaya Spetsiálnaya "Vint ...
, a Soviet sniper rifle
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VSTOL Support Ship
The VSTOL Support Ship (VSS) was a proposed light aircraft carrier design for the United States Navy in the late 1970s that would be smaller and less expensive than the Navy's existing aircraft carriers such as the . The design would cost one-qua ...
, a proposed 1970s U.S. Navy light carrier
See also
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