WPS may refer to:

Computing and telecommunications

Wi-Fi Protected Setup Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS), referred to as Wi-Fi Simple Configuration in the specification, and branded as WPS, is a standard designed to ease the setup of Wi-Fi networks in home and small office environments. Created by Wi-Fi Alliance, the p ...

, a standard that attempts to automate secure wireless network set up and connection * .wps, a file extension (including a list of programs using the extension) *

WPS Office WPS Office (an acronym for Writer, Presentation and Spreadsheets, previously known as Kingsoft Office) is an office suite for Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, Fire OS and HarmonyOS developed by the Chinese company Kingsoft Offic ...

, an office suite software developed by Kingsoft *

Nationwide Wireless Priority Service The Nationwide Wireless Priority Service (WPS) is a system in the United States that allows high-priority emergency telephone calls to avoid congestion on wireless telephone networks. This complements the Government Emergency Telecommunicati ...

, a system in the United States for prioritizing emergency calls from mobile phones *

Web Processing Service The OGC Web Processing Service (WPS) Interface Standard provides rules for standardizing inputs and outputs (requests and responses) for invoking geospatial processing services, such as polygon overlay, as a web service. The WPS standard defines h ...

, a web service interface specification from the Open Geo spatial Consortium * WebSphere Process Server, an IBM service-oriented architecture offering *

Wi-Fi positioning system Wi-Fi positioning system (WPS, WiPS or WFPS) is a geolocation system that uses the characteristics of nearby Wi‑Fi access points to discover where a device is located. It is used where satellite navigation such as GPS is inadequate due to vari ...

, a system that calculates the position of a device through nearby Wi-Fi access points *

Workplace Shell The Workplace Shell (WPS) is an object-oriented desktop shell (also called desktop environment) produced by IBM's Boca Raton development lab for OS/2 2.0. It is based on Common User Access and made a radical shift away from the Program Manager t ...

, a user interface of the IBM OS/2 operating system *

World Programming System The World Programming System, also known as WPS Analytics or WPS, is a software product developed by a company called World Programming (acquired by Altair Engineering). WPS Analytics supports users of mixed ability to access and process data ...

, a development environment for the SAS programming language

Education in the United States

* Walker Public Schools, a defunct school system in Columbia County, Arkansas * Windermere Preparatory School, a private school in Florida *

Winchester Public Schools (Connecticut) Winchester Public Schools (WPS) is the school district for the town of Winchester, Connecticut. It includes Winsted. The district serves elementary grades (K-6) while middle and high school students are sent to Gilbert School The Gilbert ...

* Winchester Public Schools (Virginia) * Winthrop Public Schools (Maine) *

Woodbury Public Schools The Woodbury Public Schools (WPS) is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade from Woodbury, in Gloucester County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2022–23 sch ...

, New Jersey * Woodland Public Schools, Oklahoma * Woodland Public Schools, Washington

Organizations

Canada

* Windsor Police Service *

Winnipeg Police Service The Winnipeg Police Service is the police force of the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. History When Winnipeg became a city, in 1873, an election was held to select the city's new mayor and Alderman, aldermen. Those appointed decided to h ...

United Kingdom

* Workers Party of Scotland, an anti-revisionist political party *

Women's Police Service The Women's Police Service (WPS) in the UK was a national voluntary organization of women police officers that was active from 1914 until 1940. As the first uniformed women's police service in the UK, it made progress in gaining acceptance of wo ...

, a voluntary organisation

United States

Western Pipe and Steel Company The Western Pipe and Steel Company (WPS) was an American manufacturing company that is best remembered today for its shipbuilding, construction of ships for the Maritime Commission in World War II. It also built ships for the U.S. Shipping Board ...

* Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corporation, a not-for-profit health insurer * Wisconsin Public Service, a utility company in northern Wisconsin *

Women's Professional Soccer Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) was the top-level professional women's soccer league in the United States. It began play on March 29, 2009. The league was composed of seven teams for its first two seasons and fielded six teams for the 2011 ...

, an association football league

Other uses

* Women, Peace and Security Index, scores and ranks countries in terms of women's security, justice, and inclusion. *

Welding Procedure Specification A Welding Procedure Specification (WPS) is a formal document describing welding procedures. It is an internal document used by welding companies to instruct welders (or welding operators) on how to achieve quality production welds that meet all r ...

West Philippine Sea West Philippine Sea (; or ''Karagatang Kanlurang Pilipinas''; abbreviated as WPS) is the designation by the government of the Philippines to the parts of the South China Sea that are included in the country's exclusive economic zone. The term i ...

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