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. Th ...

, an antibiotic * STS (gene), which codes for steroid sulfatase *

Superior temporal sulcus The superior temporal sulcus (STS) is the sulcus separating the superior temporal gyrus from the middle temporal gyrus in the temporal lobe of the brain. A sulcus (plural sulci) is a deep groove that curves into the largest part of the brain, ...

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 ...

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

Transport

* Cadillac STS, a luxury car * NASA Space Transportation System, 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, airport transit in Seattle-Tacoma International Airport *

Ship-to-ship transfer ship-to-ship (STS) transfer operation is the transfer of cargo between seagoing ships positioned alongside each other, either while stationary or underway. Cargoes typically transferred via STS methods include crude oil, liquefied gas ( LPG or LNG ...

, between seagoing ships * '' Société de transport de Sherbrooke'', a public bus system in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada * '' Société de transport du Saguenay'', a public bus system in Saguenay, Quebec, Canada *

Sonar Technician Submarine Sonar technician (abbreviated as ST) is a United States Navy occupational rating. STs are responsible for underwater surveillance. They assist in safe navigation and aid in search, rescue and attack operations. They operate and repair sonar equip ...

, 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 "f ...

* STS, the National Rail code for

Saltash railway station Saltash railway station serves the town of Saltash in Cornwall, England. It is on the south side of the town between the Royal Albert Bridge which crosses the River Tamar and the Coombe Viaduct which spans a small tributary of the same river. ...

, Cornwall, UK

Science and technology

Space Tourism Society The Space Tourism Society (STS) is a California 501(c)3 non-profit organization founded in 1996 by John Spencer, a former member of the Board of Directors of the National Space Society, with the goal of promoting space tourism. Their stated goal, ...

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 ...

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 is ...

, 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 ...

Station-to-Station protocol In public-key cryptography, the Station-to-Station (STS) protocol is a cryptographic key agreement scheme. The protocol is based on classic Diffie–Hellman, and provides mutual key and entity authentication. Unlike the classic Diffie–Hellman, w ...

, a cryptographic key agreement scheme * Synergy Teleconferencing System, 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), 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 diode ...

Culture

* Satanas, a Filipino-American gang * Stepover toehold sleeper, a wrestling hold * S.T.S., an Austropop band

Societies, organizations and companies

Scottish Tartans Society The Scottish Tartans Society (STS) was a society committed to the recording and preservation of woven tartan designs from around the world; it maintained the ''Register of All Publicly Known Tartans''. The society was first formed in 1963 and ex ...

, 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 facil ...

, a former terminal tractor producer *

Society of the Holy Trinity The Society of the Holy Trinity (''Societas Trinitatis Sanctae'' or STS) is a Lutheran ministerium dedicated to the renewal of Lutheran churches and ministry. The society was founded in 1997 by 28 pastors. As of April 2015, 283 pastors are subscribe ...

(Societas Trinitatis Sanctae – STS), Lutheran ministerium * Suomen Työväen Säästöpankki, a defunct Finnish commercial bank *

Hitachi Rail STS Hitachi Rail STS SpA (from ''Hitachi Rail Signalling and Transportation Systems'') or Hitachi Rail STS (previously Ansaldo STS) is a transportation company owned by Hitachi with a global presence in the field of railway signalling and integrated t ...

, formerly known as Ansaldo STS, a company specializing in railway signalling and control systems

Other uses

* Saints, the plural of Saint, for example: Sts. Peter and Paul *

Short-term business statistics Short-term business statistics (STS) are economic statistics published by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Commission. They cover all member states of the European Union and - in some areas - also third countries, and provide agg ...

* Strathcona-Tweedsmuir School, Alberta, Canada * Susquehannock Trail System, Pennsylvania, US