SPS may refer to:

Law and government

Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures The Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures, also known as the SPS Agreement or just SPS, is an international treaty of the World Trade Organization (WTO). It was negotiated during the Uruguay Round of the General Agree ...

of the WTO * NATO Science for Peace and Security * Single Payment Scheme, an EU agricultural subsidy * The Standard Procurement System, for the US Department of Defense * Somali Postal Service * Staff and Personnel Support Branch, part of the British Army Adjutant General's Corps * Unofficial

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 ...

for Spanish naval warships (Spanish Ship)

Police and prisons

Scottish Prison Service The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) () is an executive agency of the Scottish Government tasked with managing prisons and Young Offender Institutions. The Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, currently Teresa Medhurst, is responsible ...

Singapore Prison Service The Singapore Prison Service (SPS) is a government agency of Singapore under the Ministry of Home Affairs (Singapore), Ministry of Home Affairs. Based in Changi Prison, Changi Prison Complex in the eastern part of Singapore, the service runs ...

, a government agency of the Government of Singapore under the hierarchy of the Ministry of Home Affairs * Station police sergeant or

station sergeant Station sergeant (also known as crown sergeant, senior sergeant or staff sergeant) is a police rank senior to sergeant and junior to inspector in some British and Commonwealth police forces. The rank insignia is usually a sergeant's three chevrons ...

, former UK police rank *

State Police Services (India) The State Police Services (SPS) is an umbrella term for police services under different State governments of India, state governments in India. In India, police is a State List, state subject and each state has its own police service. For example, ...

* Surrey Police Service, British Columbia, Canada * Saskatoon Police Service, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Organisations

* Sahara Press Service, of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic *

Sierra Peaks Section The Sierra Peaks Section (SPS) is a mountaineering society within the Angeles Chapter of the Sierra Club that serves to provide mountaineering activities for Sierra Club members in the Sierra Nevada (U.S.), Sierra Nevada, and to honor mountaineers ...

* SPS Commerce * SPS Technologies, Inc., acquired by Precision Castparts Corp. * Sussex Piscatorial Society, a fishing club in the UK * Swiss Society of Proteomics, of Life Sciences Switzerland

Education

New York University School of Professional Studies The New York University School of Professional Studies (SPS), previously known as the New York University School of Continuing Education, is one of the schools and colleges that compose New York University. Founded in 1934, the school offers un ...

Sadiq Public School The Sadiq Public School (SPS) is a college-preparatory boarding school located in Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan. It also takes day pupils. It is one of the largest schools in Pakistan and its area of makes it both the largest in the country and ...

, a school in Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan *

Saint Paul Seminary The Saint Paul Seminary (SPS) is a Catholic Church, Catholic major seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota. A part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, SPS prepares men to enter th ...

, a Catholic seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota, US *

Social and Political Sciences The Faculty of Human, Social, and Political Science at the University of Cambridge was created in 2011 out of a merger of the Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology and the Faculty of Politics, Psychology, Sociology and International Studies. ...

, of the University of Cambridge, UK *

Society of Physics Students The Society of Physics Students (SPS) is a professional association with international participation, granting membership through college chapters with the only requirement that the student member be interested in physics. All college majors a ...

Springfield Public Schools (Missouri) Springfield Public Schools (SPS), also known as the Springfield R-12 School District, is a public school district headquartered in Springfield, Missouri, United States. With an official fall 2020 enrollment of 24,309 students attending 35 elem ...

, school district, US * St. Patrick's Higher Secondary School, Asansol, India * St. Paul's School (disambiguation), various schools *

Stromness Primary School Stromness Primary School is a primary school in Stromness, Orkney. The school has around 125 students. History On June 21, 1919, students from both the primary and higher schools were taken to witness the scuttling of the German fleet at Scapa ...

, a primary school in

Stromness, Orkney Stromness (, ; ) is the second-most populous town in Orkney, Scotland. It is in the southwestern part of Mainland, Orkney. It is a burgh with a parish around the outside with the town of Stromness as its capital. Etymology The name "Stromness" ...

Political parties

Socialist Party of Serbia The Socialist Party of Serbia (, abbr. SPS) is a populist political party in Serbia. Ivica Dačić has led SPS as its president since 2006. SPS was founded in 1990 as a merger of the League of Communists of Serbia and Socialist Alliance ...

(''Socijalistička partija Srbije''), a political party in Serbia *

Union of Right Forces The Union of Right Forces (URF). was a Russian liberal-conservative political public organization and former party, initially founded as an electoral bloc in 1999 and associated with free market reforms, privatization, and the legacy of the "yo ...

(''Soyuz Pravykh Sil''), a former political party in Russia *

Soy Porque Somos Soy Porque Somos (SPS ; ) is a Colombian left-wing political party of Afro-Colombian origin founded on 21 July 2021. It is one of the movements that make up the Historic Pact, a political coalition that led Gustavo Petro to the presidency. The ...

, Colombian left-wing political movement founded in 2021

Religion

* Saint Patrick’s Society for the Foreign Missions, Ireland, post-nominal * Society for Pentecostal Studies

Science and technology

* Solanapyrone synthase, an enzyme *

Sucrose-phosphate synthase Sucrose-phosphate synthase (SPS) is a plant enzyme involved in sucrose biosynthesis. Specifically, this enzyme catalyzes the transfer of a hexosyl group from uridine diphosphate glucose ( UDP-glucose) to D-fructose 6-phosphate to form UDP and D-s ...

, a plant enzyme involved in sucrose biosynthesis * Spark plasma sintering * Special weather statement, US *

Stand-alone power system A stand-alone power system (SAPS or SPS), also known as remote area power supply (RAPS), is an off-the-grid electricity system for locations that are not fitted with an electricity distribution system. Typical SAPS include one or more methods of ...

, an off-the-grid electricity system * Standard positioning service, a

Global Positioning System The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a satellite-based hyperbolic navigation system owned by the United States Space Force and operated by Mission Delta 31. It is one of the global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) that provide ge ...

feature *

Super Proton Synchrotron The Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) is a particle accelerator of the synchrotron type at CERN. It is housed in a circular tunnel, in circumference, straddling the border of France and Switzerland near Geneva, Switzerland. History The SPS was d ...

, a particle accelerator at CERN

Computing

* Shell Processing Support, a file format for seismic data * IBM 1401 Symbolic Programming System and IBM 1620/1710 Symbolic Programming System, assemblers

Medicine and psychology

Sensory processing sensitivity Sensory processing sensitivity (SPS) is a temperamental or personality trait involving "an increased sensitivity of the central nervous system and a deeper cognitive processing of physical, social, and emotional stimuli". The trait is charact ...

, the defining personality trait of Highly Sensitive Persons (HSPs) *

Serrated polyposis syndrome Serrated polyposis syndrome (SPS), previously known as hyperplastic polyposis syndrome, is a disorder characterized by the appearance of serrated polyps in the colon. While serrated polyposis syndrome does not cause symptoms, the condition is asso ...

, a disorder characterized by the appearance of serrated polyps in the colon * Sterile processing service *

Stiff-person syndrome Stiff-person syndrome (SPS), also known as stiff-man syndrome, is a rare neurological disorder of unclear cause characterized by progressive muscular rigidity and stiffness. The stiffness primarily affects the truncal muscles and is characterised ...

, a rare neurologic disorder * Syntactic positive shift, a peak in brain activity

Military and space

* Service propulsion system in the

Apollo service module The Apollo command and service module (CSM) was one of two principal components of the United States Apollo spacecraft, used for the Apollo program, which landed astronauts on the Moon between 1969 and 1972. The CSM functioned as a mother ship ...

* Solar power satellite, to beam power to Earth * Side protection system or

torpedo belt The torpedo belt was part of the armoring scheme in some warships between the 1920s and 1940s. It consisted of a series of lightly armored compartments, extending laterally along a narrow belt that intersected the ship's waterline. In theory thi ...

of a warship *

SR-1 Vektor The SR-1 Vektor also known as the Gyurza (''Гюрза'', Russian for " blunt-nosed viper") or Serdyukov SPS is a semi-automatic pistol. Design The operating system is based on the Beretta 92, utilizing a dropping block. The frame is polyme ...

(Samozaryadnyj Pistolet Serdjukova – Serdyukov Self-loading pistol)

Transportation

* Wichita Falls Municipal Airport (IATA airport code) *

Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway The Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway (SP&S; ) was a railroad in the northwest United States. Incorporated in 1905, it was a joint venture by the Great Northern Railway and the Northern Pacific Railway to build a railroad along the north bank ...

, a defunct railroad in the United States

Other uses

* Abbreviation of

San Pedro Sula San Pedro Sula () is the capital of Cortés Department, Honduras. It is located in the northwest corner of the country in the Sula Valley, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) south of Puerto Cortés on the Caribbean Sea. With a population of 701, ...

, second largest city in Honduras. * Sony Imaging Pro Support, for photographers * SPS (Mongolia), a TV channel * Sam Petrevski-Seton, an Australian rules footballer