SS (disambiguation)
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SS, S.S., Ss, Ss., or ss may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
- SS (band), an early Japanese hardcore punk band
- SS (manga), a Japanese comic produced between 2000 and 2003
- S.S., initials used by H. G. Wells, standing for Sosthenes Smith, under which he wrote A Vision of the Past
- Silent Sanctuary, a Filipino alternative rock band
Businesses and organisations
Transportation
- SS Cars Ltd, a British car maker which in 1945 changed its name to Jaguar to avoid association with the Nazi SS
- Corsair International (IATA airline code SS)
- Maatschappij tot Exploitatie van Staatsspoorwegen, a Dutch private railroad
- Sand Springs Railway in Oklahoma, US (railroad reporting mark SS)
- Stockholms Spårvägar, a Swedish streetcar and bus company
Other businesses and organizations
- Schutzstaffel, a paramilitary organisation in Nazi Germany
- Secret service, a government agency, or the activities of a government agency, concerned with the gathering of intelligence data
Language
- ß or ss, a German language ligature
- Ss (digraph), a Latin alphabet digraph used in Chinese transliteration for the phoneme /z/
- scilicet (§ or ss.), Latin phrase meaning "namely" or "as follows"
- sensu stricto, Latin phrase meaning "in the strict sense"
- Swazi language (ISO 639-1 code "ss")
- SS, glossing abbreviation for "same subject" in switch-reference
Places
- SS postcode area, UK, a group of postal codes surrounding Southend, in England
- Province of Sassari, Italy (vehicle plate code)
- South Sudan (ISO 3166-1 code SS)
- Sub-Saharan Africa
Science and technology
- For vehicles, see § Vehicles.
Biology and medicine
- Sickle-cell disease
- Sjögren's syndrome, an autoimmune disease (or Sicca syndrome)
- Sweet's syndrome or acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis, a disease
- (+)-sabinene synthase, an enzyme
- "Subjects", as used in human subject research
- Systemic scleroderma or systemic sclerosis
Computing
- .ss, top-level domain country code for South Sudan
- SS register, or stack segment register, a term used in x86 computer architecture
- Sega Saturn, a video game console released by Sega in 1994
- Server-side, operations that are performed by the server in a client–server relationship
- Slave select or chip select, a control line for a computer data bus
- Super speed USB, an abbreviation for USB 3.0
Other uses in science and technology
- SteadyShot, a sensor-based camera image stabilization system by Sony
Sports
- Shortstop, a fielding position in baseball and softball
- Special stage (rallying), a competitive section of a stage rally event
- Strong safety, a defensive position in American and Canadian football
Vehicles
Ships
- Steamship
- Steamboat
- Merchant vessel, by common naming prefix
- Submarine, by US Navy hull classification
Other vehicles
- Surface-to-surface missile developed by the Soviet Union, according to NATO reporting names
- SS class blimp, a class of anti-submarine warfare blimps
- Super Sport (Chevrolet), a performance option package offered by Chevrolet on many of its vehicles
Other uses
- Saints
- Guangdong Experimental High School (Sheng Shi or Sang Sat), in Guangzhou, China
- Scout Sniper, a trained sniper in the United States Marine Corps
- Scilicet, used in legal papers to indicate venue
See also
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