BS, B.S., Bs or bs may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

*BS-, a prefix for all games broadcast for the

Satellaview The is a satellite modem peripheral produced by Nintendo for the Super Famicom in 1995. Containing 1 megabyte of ROM space and an additional 512 kB of RAM, Satellaview allowed players to download games, magazines, and other media through sate ...

modem via the Japanese Broadcasting Satellite system * "B.S." (song), a song by Jhené Aiko from the album ''Chilombo'' *

Team BS Team BS is a project and a hip hop collective of La Fouine launched in 2013, and an initiative of his record label Banlieue Sale, "BS" denoting actually the record label they work in. Collective Team BS is a collaboration of Banlieue Sale acts La ...

, French music collective founded by La Fouine that includes Fababy, Sultan and Sindy *

NHK , also known as NHK, is a Japanese public broadcaster. NHK, which has always been known by this romanized initialism in Japanese, is a statutory corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television license fee. NHK operates two terrestr ...

's satellite broadcaster mark, NHK-BS * ''Backstage'' (magazine) *

Baritone saxophone The baritone saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of instruments, larger (and lower-pitched) than the tenor saxophone, but smaller (and higher-pitched) than the bass. It is the lowest-pitched saxophone in common use - the bass, contrab ...

, a musical instrument *

Bullshit (card game) Cheat (also known as Bluff, Bullshit, Liar or I Doubt ItGuide to games: Discarding games: How to play cheat, The Guardian, 22 November 2008retrieved 28 March 2011) is a card game where the players aim to get rid of all of their cards.The Pan Bo ...

, a card game

Businesses and organizations

*, a bank in Spain *, a bank headquartered in Spain *

Beijing Subway The Beijing Subway is the rapid transit system of Beijing Municipality that consists of 25 lines including 20 rapid transit lines, two airport rail links, one maglev line and 2 light rail lines, and 463 stations. The rail network extends ...

, a transit system *

BellSouth BellSouth, LLC (stylized as ''BELLSOUTH'' and formerly known as BellSouth Corporation) was an American telecommunications holding company based in Atlanta, Georgia. BellSouth was one of the seven original Regional Bell Operating Companies after ...

, a United States telephone company * Better Serbia (''Bolja Srbija''), a political party in Serbia * ' ("Cipher Bureau"), a Polish cryptography and signals intelligence agency known for its work on German Enigma ciphers in the 1930s * Boy Scouts; see

scouting Scouting, also known as the Scout Movement, is a worldwide youth Social movement, movement employing the Scout method, a program of informal education with an emphasis on practical outdoor activities, including camping, woodcraft, aquatics, hik ...

* British International Helicopters (IATA code BS) *

British Shipbuilders British Shipbuilders (BS) was a public corporation that owned and managed the shipbuilding industry in Great Britain from 1977 through the 1980s. Its head office was at Benton House in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. History The corporation was ...

, a public corporation founded in 1977 *

British Standards British Standards (BS) are the standards produced by the BSI Group which is incorporated under a royal charter and which is formally designated as the national standards body (NSB) for the UK. The BSI Group produces British Standards under the ...

, produced by BSI Group *

British Sugar British Sugar plc is a subsidiary of Associated British Foods and the sole British producer of sugar from sugar beet, as well as medicinal cannabis. British Sugar processes all sugar beet grown in the United Kingdom, and produces about two-thi ...

, a division of Associated British Foods *

Building surveyor Construction surveying or building surveying (otherwise known as "staking", "stake-out", "lay-out", "setting-out" or "BS") is to stake out reference points and markers that will guide the construction of new structures such as roads or buildings. T ...

, a professional in the construction industry concerned with setting out reference points and markers

In finance

* Venezuelan ', currency of Venezuela * Bolivian ', currency of Bolivia

Places

BS postcode area The BS postcode area, also known as the Bristol postcode area,Royal Mail, ''Address Management Guide'', (2004) is a group of 37 postcode districts in South West England, within eight post towns. These cover the city of Bristol, north Somerset (in ...

, in Bristol, England *

The Bahamas The Bahamas (), officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the West Indies in the North Atlantic. It takes up 97% of the Lucayan Archipelago's land area and is home to 88% of the a ...

, by ISO 2-letter country code **

.bs .bs is the Internet country code top-level domain ( ccTLD) for the Bahamas. It is administered by the University of the Bahamas The University of The Bahamas (UB) is the national Public university, public institution of higher education in the C ...

, country-code Top Level Domain for the Bahamas * , a city in Slovakia with the vehicle registration plate BS * , a Swiss canton, officially abbreviated to BS * or ( he, בְּאֵר שֶׁבַע, links=no), a city in the Southern District of Israel * , a town in Germany, also known in English as Brunswick, with the vehicle registration plate BS * , a city and province of Italy with the vehicle registration plate BS * , a city in Poland with the vehicle registration plate BS

In science and technology

Computing and telecommunications

* Bs (programming language) *

Backspace Backspace () is the keyboard key that originally pushed the typewriter carriage one position backwards and in modern computer systems moves the display cursor one position backwards,"Backwards" means to the left for left-to-right languages. delete ...

, and the backspace control character in the C0 control code set * Base transceiver station, or base station, a node in a mobile telephony network *

Bubble sort Bubble sort, sometimes referred to as sinking sort, is a simple sorting algorithm that repeatedly steps through the input list element by element, comparing the current element with the one after it, swapping their values if needed. These passe ...

, a sorting algorithm * Boot sector, a memory region containing machine code, generally used for booting an operating system *

BotServ Internet Relay Chat services (usually called IRC services) is a name for a set of features implemented on many modern Internet Relay Chat networks. Services are automated bots with special status which are generally used to provide users with ...

, an IRC bot server * BraveSentry, a clone of the SpySheriff malware program * Broadcasting Satellite (Japanese), a system of Japanese communication satellites

Medicine

Bachelor of Surgery Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery ( la, Medicinae Baccalaureus, Baccalaureus Chirurgiae; abbreviated most commonly MBBS), is the primary medical degree awarded by medical schools in countries that follow the tradition of the United King ...

, an academic degree *

Bernard–Soulier syndrome Bernard–Soulier syndrome (BSS) is a rare autosomal recessive bleeding disorder that is caused by a deficiency of the '' glycoprotein Ib-IX-V complex'' (GPIb-IX-V), the receptor for von Willebrand factor. The incidence of BSS is estimated to be ...

, a rare autosomal recessive coagulopathy, that is caused a deficiency of glycoprotein Ib * Bartter syndrome, a rare inherited disease which results in hypokalemia

Other uses in science and technology

Bachelor of Science A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, SB, or ScB; from the Latin ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for programs that generally last three to five years. The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Science was the University o ...

, an academic degree *

Behavioural sciences Behavioral sciences explore the cognitive processes within organisms and the behavioral interactions between organisms in the natural world. It involves the systematic analysis and investigation of human and animal behavior through naturalisti ...

* Brake-specific fuel consumption, a measure of engine fuel efficiency * Bright Star Catalogue, which lists all stars of stellar magnitude 6.5 or brighter *

Bronshtein and Semendyayev ''Bronshtein and Semendyayev'' (often just ''Bronshtein'' or ''Bronstein'', sometimes ''BS'') is the informal name of a comprehensive handbook of fundamental working knowledge of mathematics and table of formulas originally compiled by the Rus ...

, a handbook of mathematics *

Strange B meson The meson is a meson composed of a bottom antiquark and a strange quark. Its antiparticle is the meson, composed of a bottom quark and a strange antiquark. B–B oscillations Strange B mesons are noted for their ability to oscillate between ...

, a subatomic particle, symbol *The

Köppen climate classification The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems. It was first published by German-Russian climatologist Wladimir Köppen (1846–1940) in 1884, with several later modifications by Köppen, nota ...

code for a

semi-arid climate A semi-arid climate, semi-desert climate, or steppe climate is a dry climate sub-type. It is located on regions that receive precipitation below potential evapotranspiration, but not as low as a desert climate. There are different kinds of semi ...

In sport

* The Bs, a 19th-century cricket team *

British Shooting British Shooting is the national governing body for ISSF shooting sport disciplines in the United Kingdom. The organisation serves as a single shooting body to receive public funding from UK Sport and Sport England, administer high performance s ...

, the governing body for target shooting in Great Britain * British Showjumping, the governing body for showjumping in Great Britain *Blocked Shot, in basketball statistics, see

Block (basketball) In basketball, a block or blocked shot occurs when a defensive player legally deflects a field goal attempt from an offensive player to prevent a score. The defender is not allowed to make contact with the offensive player's hand (unless the de ...

*Blown Save, in baseball statistics, see

Save (baseball) In baseball, a save (abbreviated SV or S) is credited to a pitcher who finishes a game for the winning team under certain prescribed circumstances. Most commonly a pitcher earns a save by entering in the ninth inning of a game in which his tea ...

Other uses

Bullshit ''Bullshit'' (also ''bullshite'' or ''bullcrap'') is a common English expletive which may be shortened to the euphemism ''bull'' or the initialism B.S. In British English, "bollocks" is a comparable expletive. It is mostly a slang term and a ...

, a phrase denoting something worthless * ''Bengali Sambat'', used to mark years in the

Bengali calendar The Bengali Calendar or Bangla Calendar ( bn, বঙ্গাব্দ , , Baṅgābda), colloquially ( bn, বাংলা সন, Baṅgla Śon), is a solar calendar used in the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent. A revised version of th ...

* Big Sister (disambiguation) *

Bikram Sambat Vikram Samvat (IAST: ''Vikrama Samvat''; abbreviated VS) or Bikram Sambat B.S. and also known as the Vikrami calendar, is a Hindu calendar historically used in the Indian subcontinent. Vikram Samvat is generally 57 years ahead of Gregorian Calend ...

, a calendar used in Nepal *

Bosnian language Bosnian (; / , ) is the standardized variety of the Serbo-Croatian pluricentric language mainly used by ethnic Bosniaks. Bosnian is one of three such varieties considered official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina, along with Croatian an ...

(ISO 639 alpha-2 code bs) *

Broad Street (disambiguation) Broad Street may refer to: Nigeria * Broad Street, Lagos United Kingdom * Broad Street, Reading, Berkshire * Broad Street, Bristol * Broad Street, East Sussex, a location * Broad Street, Kent, in Hollingbourne, Maidstone * Broad Street, Lyming ...

Bronze Star Medal The Bronze Star Medal (BSM) is a United States Armed Forces decoration awarded to members of the United States Armed Forces for either heroic achievement, heroic service, meritorious achievement, or meritorious service in a combat zone. W ...

, a United States military award * ' (

Institute of consecrated life An institute of consecrated life is an association of faithful in the Catholic Church erected by canon law whose members profess the evangelical counsels of chastity, poverty, and obedience by vows or other sacred bonds. They are defined in the ...

), a Roman Catholic monastic Order