VSM may refer to:

Organisations

Varanger Sami Museum The Varanger Sami Museum (, , VSM) is a museum for Sami people, Sami culture and history in Varangerbotn in Unjárga Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The museum is working with the Sea Sami history along Varangerfjord, Sami prehistory, an ...

, a museum in Varangerbotn, Norway *

Veluwsche Stoomtrein Maatschappij Veluwse Stoomtrein Maatschappij () (VSM) is a Dutch heritage railway between Apeldoorn and Dieren. It passes through the villages of Lieren/Beekbergen, Loenen, and Eerbeek. Rides on steam trains are popular with tourists visiting the region, and ...

, a Dutch heritage railway * Vickers, Sons & Maxim, a British armaments and ammunition manufacturer of the early 20th century * Villa Sainte-Marcelline, a private school in Westmount, Canada *

VSM Group VSM Group AB (Viking Sewing Machines), previously named Husqvarna Sewing Machines is a company based in Huskvarna, Sweden. Founded in 1872, the company is best known for "smart" (computerized) sewing machines and sergers under the brands ''Husqv ...

or Viking Sewing Machines, a Swedish company * Vysoká škola manažmentu or City University of Seattle in Slovakia, a private college

Science and technology

* Variance shadow map, a process by which shadows are added to 3D computer graphics *

Vascular smooth muscle Vascular smooth muscle is the type of smooth muscle that makes up most of the walls of blood vessels. Structure Vascular smooth muscle refers to the particular type of smooth muscle found within, and composing the majority of the wall of blood v ...

, a type of muscle found in blood vessels *

Vector space model Vector space model or term vector model is an algebraic model for representing text documents (or more generally, items) as vector space, vectors such that the distance between vectors represents the relevance between the documents. It is used in i ...

, an algebraic model for representing objects as vectors of identifiers * Vena saphena magna, a vein of the leg *

Viable system model The viable system model (VSM) is a model of the organizational structure of any autonomous system capable of producing itself. It is an implementation of viable system theory. At the biological level, this model is correspondent to autopoiesis. A ...

, a model of an autonomous system capable of producing itself *

Vibrating-sample magnetometer A vibrating-sample magnetometer (VSM) (also referred to as a Foner magnetometer/oscillation magnetometer) is a scientific instrument that measures magnetic properties based on Faraday’s Law of Induction. Simon Foner at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in ...

, a scientific instrument

Other uses

Value-stream mapping Value-stream mapping, also known as material- and information-flow mapping, is a lean-management method for analyzing the current state and designing a future state for the series of events that take a product or service from the beginning of t ...

, a product management method *

Vietnam Service Medal The Vietnam Service Medal was a military award of the United States Armed Forces established on 8 July 1965 by order of President Lyndon B. Johnson. The medal is awarded to recognize service during the Vietnam War by all members of the U.S. ...

, a military award of the United States Armed Forces *

Vishisht Seva Medal The Vishisht Seva Medal (VSM, ) is a decoration of the Indian Armed Forces. It is awarded to recognize "distinguished service of a high order" to all ranks of the Indian Armed Forces. From 1980, the Yudh Seva Medal was introduced to recognize ex ...

, a military award of the Indian Armed Forces *

Voluntary Student Membership Voluntary student unionism (VSU), as it is known in Australia, or voluntary student membership (VSM), as it is known in New Zealand, is a policy under which membership of – and payment of membership fees to – university Students' union, studen ...

, a policy for New Zealand university student organisations {{disambiguation