PS

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ps may mean:

• .ps The Palestinian Internet domain extention or top-level domain (ccTLD).
• Pushtu language: ISO 639 alpha-2 language code
• picosecond, an SI unit of time worth 10^-12 of a second
• ps (Unix), an application distributed on Unix and Unix-like operating systems to display statistics on running processes

pS may mean:

• picosiemens, an SI unit of electric conductance

Ps may mean:

• petasecond, an SI unit of time worth 10¹⁵ seconds
• Psalms, a book in the Tanakh or Christian Bible

PS may mean:

• Paddle steamer, a ship prefix
• Palau: FIPS PUB 10-4 territory code
• Palestine: ISO 3166 country code
• Personnel Services, in military parlance
• petasiemens, an SI unit of electric conductance
• Pferdestärke, (German for "horsepower") - a unit of power
• Post scriptum, Latin for "written after", denoting a message appended to a letter after the writer's signature
• Polystyrene, a common plastic. PS is found next to the recycle symbol on many plastic cups, bread bags, etc.
• PostScript, a file format used in desktop publishing
• Priory of Sion
• Professional services, especially those services provided by a vendor or reseller of software or technically complex machinery to help install, implement, or extend the product.
• Program stream, an MPEG-2 container format
• Proton Synchrotron
• P.S., a film
• P.S. (A Toad Retrospective), a posthumous album by the band Toad the Wet Sprocket.
• Public school, often as part of the number of an unnamed school in the United States, such as P.S. 31
• Publish/subscribe, an asynchronous messaging model commonly used in distributed computing systems
• Ukraine International Airlines: IATA airline designator
• "PS," a song by The Books from their 2003 album The Lemon of Pink
• Porous silicon

Devices:

• a type of high-wattage light bulb
• Polystyrene, the resin identification code
• Power steering
• Power supply
• Phosphatidylserine

Computers:

• Adobe Photoshop
• PlaneShift, a cross-platform fantasy MMORPG in development
• PlanetSide, an MMOFPS developed and published by Sony Online Entertainment
• PostScript, a page description language
• Print Shop

Political parties:

• Parti socialiste, French for Socialist Party
  • French Socialist Party
  • Belgian Francophone Socialist Party
• Partido Socialista, Portuguese for Socialist Party (Portugal)
• Partido Socialista de Chile, Spanish for Socialist Party (Chile)

Recreation:

• Pen spinning, a recreational activity of using one's fingers to manipulate a pen in aesthetically pleasing ways

Society

• Priory of Sion, Prieuré de Sion, mentioned in The Da Vinci Code (Novel, Movie)

Video Games

• PlayStation, a TV game console by Sony
• Phantasy Star, a game for the Sega Master System

See also: PS/1, PS/2