GS

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

GS may stand for:

• Golden State, Nickname for California
• Game-Spectrum, an online gaming community and news resource
• Gaza Strip
• General Schedule of the civil service of the United States Government
• Glideslope
• South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (ISO country code)
  • .gs, an Internet country code top-level domain
• The shortened form for Turkish sports club Galatasaray
• Giant Slalom skiing
• Goldman Sachs, an investment bank
• Ghostscript, a free software suite for handling PostScript and Portable Document Format (PDF) files
• Roland GS, an extension of General MIDI electronic musical instruments' specification by Roland Corporation
• General Schedule, a prefix designating a pay grade in the United States civil service
• GemStone IV, a text-based multiplayer online roleplaying game by Simutronics Corp.
• GameSpot, an online gaming community
• The group separator character in the C0 control code set.
• Group Sounds, a genre of Japanese rock
• Gundam Seed, a Japanese anime television series which is part of the Gundam franchise
• Gilbert's syndrome, a liver enzyme disorder which can cause elevated levels of serum bilirubin.
• GS Group, a Korean company which is a spin-off from the LG Group
• Green Screen, a variant of the 'blue screen' technique used in visual effects
• Geprüfte Sicherheit, a safety mark appearing on electrical equipment
• The Apple IIGS was a computer in the Apple II series, named for its graphic and sound capabilities
• Giant spiral galaxy, galaxy code "gS"
• Air Foyle IATA airline designator
• Grant Aviation IATA airline designator

GS is also a popular designation in car and motorcycle industry:

• the name of BMW on-road/off-road motorcycles (e.g. R1100GS) see Gelände/Strasse
• Lexus GS
• Buick GS
• the GS, a model of car produced by French automobile manufacturer Citroën
• Giulietta Spyder, a car made by Alfa Romeo
• Suzuki GS series, a line of motorcycles