CS, C-S, C.S., Cs, cs, or cs. may refer to:

Job titles

Chief Secretary (Hong Kong) The Chief Secretary for Administration, commonly known as the Chief Secretary of Hong Kong, is the most senior principal officials of Hong Kong, principal official of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The Chief Se ...

* Chief superintendent, a rank in the British and several other police forces * Company secretary, a senior position in a private sector company or public sector organisation * Culinary Specialist, a US Navy occupational rating

Language

* Czech language (ISO 639-1 language code) *

Hungarian cs This is a list of digraphs used in various Latin alphabets. Capitalisation involves only the first letter (''ch'' becomes ''Ch'') unless otherwise stated (''ij'' becomes ''IJ''). Letters with diacritics are arranged in alphabetic order accordin ...

, a digraph in the Hungarian alphabet

Organizations

* Christian Social Party (Austria), a major conservative political party in the

Cisleithania Cisleithania, also ''Zisleithanien'' sl, Cislajtanija hu, Ciszlajtánia cs, Předlitavsko sk, Predlitavsko pl, Przedlitawia sh-Cyrl-Latn, Цислајтанија, Cislajtanija ro, Cisleithania uk, Цислейтанія, Tsysleitaniia it, Cislei ...

, part of Austria-Hungary, and in the First Republic of Austria * Citizens (Spanish political party), a post-nationalist political party in Spain *

Congregation of the Missionaries of St. Charles The Congregation of the Missionaries of Saint Charles Borromeo ( la, Congregatio Missionariorum a S. Carolo), commonly called the Scalabrinian Missionaries, is a Roman Catholic religious institute of brothers and priests founded by Giovanni Battis ...

, a Catholic religious congregation, also called ''Scalabrinians'' * Confederate States of America, an unrecognized confederation of secessionist North American slave states existing from 1861 to 1865

Companies

* Colorado & Southern Railway, a railroad company in the western United States * Comlux Aruba NV (

IATA The International Air Transport Association (IATA ) is a trade association of the world's airlines founded in 1945. IATA has been described as a cartel since, in addition to setting technical standards for airlines, IATA also organized tariff ...

airline code: CS) * Connecting Stockholm, future train operator in Sweden * Copenhagen Suborbitals, a Danish non-profit rocket group working on the HEAT1X-TYCHO BRAHE rocket * CouchSurfing, a hospitality service *

Credit Suisse Credit Suisse Group AG is a global investment bank and financial services firm founded and based in Switzerland. Headquartered in Zürich, it maintains offices in all major financial centers around the world and is one of the nine global " ...

, a Swiss financial services company * Comp-Sultants, a defunct microcomputer company * CS Wind, a South Korea-based manufacturer of wind turbine towers

Places

* Cannon Street station, London, UK, abbreviated CS in UK railway slang * Czechoslovakia (former ISO 3166-1 country code) *

Serbia and Montenegro Serbia and Montenegro ( sr, Cрбија и Црна Гора, translit=Srbija i Crna Gora) was a country in Southeast Europe located in the Balkans that existed from 1992 to 2006, following the breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yu ...

(former ISO 3166-1 country code) *

Circuito Sur The ''Circuito Sur'' (CS), meaning "Southern Circuit", is a west-east highway connecting Artemisa to Sancti Spíritus, through the southern and coastal side of central-western Cuba.Source: ''Mapa de Carreteras de Cuba'' (Road map of Cuba). Edicio ...

, national highway of Cuba

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

Caesarean section Caesarean section, also known as C-section or caesarean delivery, is the surgical procedure by which one or more babies are delivered through an incision in the mother's abdomen, often performed because vaginal delivery would put the baby or mo ...

, a surgical procedure to deliver one or more babies, or, rarely, to remove a dead fetus *

Cardiogenic shock Cardiogenic shock (CS) is a medical emergency resulting from inadequate blood flow due to the dysfunction of the ventricles of the heart.Textbooks of Internal MedicinHarrison's Principles of Internal Medicine 16th Edition, The McGraw-Hill Compan ...

, a medical emergency where heart fails to pump properly to push blood forward. *

Carotid sinus In human anatomy, the carotid sinus is a dilated area at the base of the internal carotid artery just superior to the bifurcation of the internal carotid and external carotid at the level of the superior border of thyroid cartilage. The carotid ...

, a dilated area at the base of the

internal carotid artery The internal carotid artery (Latin: arteria carotis interna) is an artery in the neck which supplies the anterior circulation of the brain. In human anatomy, the internal and external carotids arise from the common carotid arteries, where these b ...

. *

Cockayne syndrome Cockayne syndrome (CS), also called Neill-Dingwall syndrome, is a rare and fatal autosomal recessive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by growth failure, impaired development of the nervous system, abnormal sensitivity to sunlight (photosen ...

, a rare autosomal recessive, congenital disorder *

Conditioned stimulus Classical conditioning (also known as Pavlovian or respondent conditioning) is a behavioral procedure in which a biologically potent stimulus (e.g. food) is paired with a previously neutral stimulus (e.g. a triangle). It also refers to the learni ...

, in the psychological procedure of classical conditioning *

Corticosteroids Corticosteroids are a class of steroid hormones that are produced in the adrenal cortex of vertebrates, as well as the synthetic analogues of these hormones. Two main classes of corticosteroids, glucocorticoids and mineralocorticoids, are involve ...

, a class of hormones produced in vertebrates, and their synthetic analogues *

Cowden syndrome Cowden syndrome (also known as Cowden's disease and multiple hamartoma syndrome) is an autosomal dominant inherited condition characterized by benign overgrowths called hamartomas as well as an increased lifetime risk of breast, thyroid, uterine, ...

, a rare autosomal dominant inherited disorder *

(-)-camphene synthase (–)-camphene synthase (EC 4.2.3.117, ''CS'') is an enzyme with systematic name geranyl-diphosphate diphosphate-lyase yclizing, (–)-camphene-forming''. This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction : geranyl diphosphate \rightleftharp ...

, an enzyme *

CS (gene) The enzyme citrate synthase E.C. 2.3.3.1 (previously 4.1.3.7)] exists in nearly all living cells and stands as a pace-making enzyme in the first step of the citric acid cycle (or Krebs cycle). Citrate synthase is localized within eukaryotic cell ...

, which encodes the enzyme citrate synthase

Chemistry

* Caesium or Cesium, symbol Cs, a chemical symbol * Carbon monosulfide, chemical formula CS

Computing

* Computer science, the scientific and practical approach to computation and its applications * CS register, or code segment register, in X86 computer architecture * Cable select, AT Attachment#Cable select, an ATA device setting for automatic master/slave configuration * Checkstyle, a Java static code analysis tool * Chip select, a control line in digital electronics * ChanServ, an IRC network service * Construction Set, a program for creating or editing PC games (i.e. The Elder Scrolls Construction Set) * ''Adobe Creative Suite'', a design and development software suite by Adobe Systems *C Sharp (programming language), C#, a general-purpose, multi-paradigm programming language.

Mathematics

* cs (elliptic function), one of Jacobi's elliptic functions

Other uses in science and technology

* Carbon steel * Cirrostratus cloud * Citizen science * Compressed sensing, a signal processing technique for reconstructing a signal using underdetermined linear systems * Control segment, part of the Global Positioning System#Structure, structure of the Global Positioning System * Counter-scanning, a scanning method that allows correcting raster distortions * cS, another form for cSt, for centistokes, a unit of viscosity

Law enforcement

* CS gas, a riot control agent

Other uses

* Controlled substance, generally a drug or chemical whose manufacture, possession, or use is regulated by a government * Cable Ship, in civilian ship names * Calgary Stampede, a rodeo * Caught stealing, a statistic in baseball * Chhatrapati Shivaji, c. 1627/1630 – 1680), Indian warrior king and member of the Bhonsle Maratha clan * Christian Science, a religion * ''Cities: Skylines'', 2015 city-building simulation video game * Coke Studio (disambiguation), ''Coke Studio'' (disambiguation), several musical television shows * ''Counter-Strike'', a series of video game first released as a 1999 modification for ''Half-Life'' * ''Cum Suis'' (Latin: "and associates"); see List of Latin phrases * Customer service, the provision of service to customers before, during and after a purchase and sale * Airbus A220, Bombardier-Airbus C-Series, small jetliner * Ferrari 360#Challenge Stradale, Ferrari 360 Challenge Stradale * A US Navy hull classification symbol: List of cruisers of the United States Navy#Scout cruisers (CS), Scout cruiser (CS) * Post-nominal letters for the Missionaries of St. Charles Borromeo (Scalabrinians), a Catholic religious congregation