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Oss OSS or Oss may refer to: Places * Oss, a city and municipality in the Netherlands * Osh Airport, IATA code OSS People with the name * Oss (surname), a surname Arts and entertainment * ''O.S.S.'' (film), a 1946 World War II spy film about ...
, a city and municipality in the Netherlands * Osh Airport, IATA code OSS


People with the name

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Oss (surname) Oss is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Albert Oss (1818–1898), Union Army soldier *Daniel Oss Daniel Oss (born 13 January 1987) is an Italian professional road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam . Career ...
, a surname


Arts and entertainment

* ''O.S.S.'' (film), a 1946 World War II spy film about Office of Strategic Services agents * ''O.S.S.'' (TV series), a British spy series which aired in 1957 in the UK and the US * Open Source Shakespeare, a non-commercial website with texts and statistics on Shakespeare's plays *
Old Syriac Sinaiticus The Syriac Sinaiticus or Codex Sinaiticus Syriacus (syrs), known also as the Sinaitic Palimpsest, of Saint Catherine's Monastery (Sinai, Syr. 30), or Old Syriac Gospels is a late-4th- or early-5th-century manuscript of 179 folios, containing a nea ...
, a Bible manuscript * Organization of Super Spies, a fictional organization in the ''Spy Kids'' franchise


Education

* ÖSS (Öğrenci Seçme Sınavı), a former university entrance exam in Turkey *
Options Secondary School Options Secondary School (Commonly known as The Portal), is located in Chula Vista, California on the Chula Vista Adult School campus. It is run under the "Alternative Education" division of the Sweetwater Union High School District, which also ru ...
, Chula Vista, California *
Otto Stern School for Integrated Doctoral Education The Otto Stern School (OSS) is the platform for doctoral education in natural sciences at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. Organisation The Otto Stern School was founded in 2006 as a scientific centre of the Goethe Unive ...
, Frankfurt am Main, Germany *
Outram Secondary School Outram Secondary School is a co-educational government secondary school in Singapore. Founded in 1906 as Outram Road School, and later Outram School, it is one of the oldest schools in Singapore. It is also the only government school in Singapore ...
, Singapore


Organizations

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Observatoire du Sahara et du Sahel The Sahara and Sahel Observatory (french: Observatoire du Sahara et du Sahel, OSS) is an African intergovernmental organisation established in 1992 and based in Tunis, Tunisia. Its aim is to protect the environment in Sahara and Sahel, supervise t ...
, dedicated to fighting desertification and drought; based in Tunis, Tunisia * Office for Science and Society, Science Education from Montreal's McGill University *
Office of Strategic Services The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was the intelligence agency of the United States during World War II. The OSS was formed as an agency of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) to coordinate espionage activities behind enemy lines for all branc ...
, World War II forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency * Office of the Supervising Scientist, an Australian Government body under the
Supervising Scientist The Supervising Scientist is a statutory office under Australian law, originally created to assist in the monitoring of what was then one of the world's largest uranium mines, the Ranger Uranium Mine. It now provides advice more generally on a 'wid ...
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Offshore Super Series {{unreferenced, date=August 2015 The Offshore Super Series (OSS) is an offshore powerboat racing organization founded in December 2003 by 2 of the top offshore race boat teams in the United States. OSS is organized as a not for profit corporation, ...
, an offshore powerboat racing organization * Open Spaces Society, a UK registered charity championing public paths and open spaces *
Operations Support Squadron List of United States Air Force support squadrons identifies the United States Air Force squadron, shield, location and support unit. A support squadron supplies all the necessary manpower and equipment needed to continue numerous tasks. An opera ...
, a United States Air Force support squadron *
Optimized Systems Software Optimized Systems Software (OSS) was a company that produced disk operating systems, programming languages with integrated development environments, and applications primarily for the Atari 8-bit family of home computers. OSS was best known fo ...
, a former software company


Science and technology

* Ohio Sky Survey * Optical SteadyShot, a lens-based image stabilization system by Sony * Optimal Stereo Sound, another name for the Jecklin Disk recording technique * Oriented spindle stop, a type of spindle motion used within some G-code cycles * Ovary Sparing Spay (OSS) * Overspeed Sensor System (OSS), part of the Train Protection & Warning System for railroad trains


Computer software and hardware

* OpenSearchServer, search engine software * Open Sound System, a standard interface for making and capturing sound in Unix operating systems * Open-source software, software with its source code made freely available * Operations support systems, computers used by telecommunications service providers to administer and maintain network systems


Other uses

* OSS Fighters, a Romania-based kickboxing promotion * Order of St. Sava, a Serbian decoration * Ossetic language code


See also

* AAS (disambiguation) * Hoz (disambiguation) * OS (disambiguation) {{DEFAULTSORT:Oss