STS, or sts, may refer to:

Medicine

Secondary traumatic stress Compassion fatigue is an evolving concept in the field of traumatology. The term has been used interchangeably with secondary traumatic stress (STS), which is sometimes simply described as the negative cost of caring. Secondary traumatic stress is ...

, 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) using ...

, a gene-reference in genomics *

Soft-tissue sarcoma A soft-tissue sarcoma (STS) is a malignant tumor, 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 unexplained ...

* Staurosporine, 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 mammalian brain. A sulcus (plural sulci) is a deep groove that curves into the largest part of ...

* Sinus tarsi syndrome, a foot condition

Places

Semipalatinsk Test Site The Semipalatinsk Test Site or Semipalatinsk-21 (; ), also known as "The Polygon", was the primary testing venue for the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons. It is located in Zhanasemey District, Abai Region, Kazakhstan, south of the valley of the Ir ...

for Soviet nuclear weapons *

Staffordshire Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation ''Staffs''.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands of England. It borders Cheshire to the north-west, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, ...

, county in England, Chapman code

Transport

* Cadillac STS, a luxury car * NASA

Space Transportation System The Space Transportation System (STS), also known internally to NASA as the Integrated Program Plan (IPP), was a proposed system of reusable crewed spacecraft, space vehicles envisioned in 1969 to support extended operations beyond the Apollo ...

, 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. Its ...

, the shuttle program itself, whose mission were referred to with STS-numbering * Sail training ship, a

ship prefix A ship prefix is a combination of letters, usually abbreviations, used in front of the name of a civilian or naval ship that has historically served numerous purposes, such as identifying the vessel's mode of propulsion, purpose, or ownership/na ...

* Satellite Transit System, now called the SEA Underground, airport transit in Seattle-Tacoma International Airport * Ship-to-ship transfer, 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 *

STS Group (Dubai) STS Group, also known as the School Transport Services Group, is a Dubai-based organisation offering transportation and mechanic services in the GCC region. The organisation predominantly serves school transportation for private schools in the ...

, a transportation company for private schools * Sonar Technician Submarine, a US Navy rating * STS, the IATA airport code for Charles M. Schulz - Sonoma County Airport * STS, the National Rail code for Saltash railway station, Cornwall, UK

Science and technology

Space Tourism Society The Space Tourism Society 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. The STS is based in th ...

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) or science, technology, and society is an interdisciplinary field that examines the creation, development, and consequences of science and technology in their historical, cultural, and social contexts. Histo ...

, a.k.a. science, technology, and society *

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 refers to coherent systems of human relati ...

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 o ...

, 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 (, ) is a Finnish trade union of university-educated engineers, architects and scientists. In addition, the TEK is a learned society and the professional body of the engineering profession. The un ...

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 c ...

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 i ...

, 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 Ja ...

* Station-to-Station protocol, a cryptographic key agreement scheme * Synergy Teleconferencing System, a PC-based chat server * ''

Serviciul de Telecomunicații Speciale Special Telecommunication Service (''Serviciul de Telecomunicații Speciale'' in Romanian language, Romanian, abbreviated STS) is the Romanian institution that coordinates the activities in the field of special secure communications. STS is an ...

'', the Romanian special telecommunication service * STS Relay, US speech to speech relay service for people with a speech disability *

STS (TV channel) CTC (or , stands for , , lit. 'Network of television stations' (NTS)) is a commercial television station based in Moscow, Russia. It belongs to the CTC Media company. The company is owned by National media group (Russia) and VTB Bank (Russia). ...

, 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 di ...

* Saga Television Station, a Japanese commercial broadcaster

Culture

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

Societies, organizations and companies

* Scottish Tartans Society, a defunct Scottish society *

Sisu Terminal Systems Sisu Terminal Systems Oy (STS) was a Finland, Finnish terminal tractor producer. The production began in 1969 as a part of Sisu Auto, Suomen Autoteollisuus (SAT) and the first vehicles were based on lorry components. The portfolio grew by time. Th ...

, a former terminal tractor producer * Society of the Holy Trinity (Societas Trinitatis Sanctae – STS), Lutheran ministerium *

Suomen Työväen Säästöpankki National Workers' Savings Bank (1971-1989) (In Finnish language, Finnish; ''Suomen Työväen Säästöpankki'', in Swedish language, Swedish; ''Arbetarsparbanken'') or STS-Bank (1989-1992) was a Finnish savings bank and commercial bank. Workers ...

, 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 an Italian transportation company owned by Hitachi with a global presence in the field of railway signalling and in ...

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

Other uses

Saints In Christian belief, a saint is a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of holiness, likeness, or closeness to God. However, the use of the term ''saint'' depends on the context and denomination. In Anglican, Oriental Orth ...

, the plural of Saint, for example: Sts. Peter and Paul * Short-term business statistics * Strathcona-Tweedsmuir School, Alberta, Canada * Susquehannock Trail System, Pennsylvania, US