CS

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CS, Cs or cs may have meaning in the following areas:

Contents 1 Physics 2 Chemistry 3 Computing, Electronics and Telecommunications 4 Country and Language Codes 5 Games 6 Medicine and Biology 7 Other

[edit] Physics

• Counter-scanning

[edit] Chemistry

• Cesium, the chemical element (Cs)
• CS gas, 2-chlorobenzalmalononitrile, used as a riot control agent

[edit] Computing, Electronics and Telecommunications

• Cable select, an ATA (or IDE) device setting for automatic drive master / slave configuration
• Cerulean Studios LLC, creators of the Trillian chat client
• ChanServ, an IRC network service used in some networks to maintain a channel registration
• Chip select, a control line in digital electronics (e. g. integrated circuits like RAM memories) used to select one chip out of several connected to the same bus usually utilizing the three-state logic
• Circuit switching, a type of telecommunication network which establishes a dedicated circuit
• Closed source, as opposed to open source (OS)
• Code segment, an x86 assembly language register (see memory segment)
• Community Server, a community collaboration software platform
• Computer science
• Adobe Creative Suite, a set of products from Adobe Systems Incorporated, including for example Adobe Photoshop CS
• Crystal Space, a framework for developing 3D applications
• Crystal Semiconductors
• Current serial, a digital communications interface more commonly called current loop
• C Sharp (C#), an object-oriented programming language and the filename extension for C# source files

[edit] Country and Language Codes

• Costa Rica, the FIPS 10-4 country code and obsolete NATO digram country code
• Czech language, the ISO 639-1 language code cs
• Czechoslovakia, the former ISO 3166-1 country code until 1993 when it was replaced by cz and sk
• Czechoslovakia, the former international license plate code until 1993 when it was replaced by CZ and SK
• Serbia and Montenegro, the former ISO 3166-1 country code (from Crna gora i Srbija) until 2006 when it was replaced by rs and me

[edit] Games

• 'Cash Shop' in the game MapleStory, an occasionally used abbreviation
• Card Sharks, a former American television game show
• Cave Story, a freeware game
• Coalition States, a fictitious political body in the Rifts roleplaying game.
• Coldsnap, a Magic: The Gathering expansion
• Counter-Strike, an influential first-person shooter
• Cursed Soul, a weapon in the MMORPG Neocron
• The Community Shield (formerly the Charity Shield) an English football competition

[edit] Medicine and Biology

• Culture Sensitivity
• Caesarean section, a form of childbirth
• Conditioned stimulus (see Classical conditioning)
• Clinical Skills examination for step II of the USMLE
• Cockayne syndrome
• Cognitive science
• Compensatory sweating, a euphemism for the disabling physical effects of endoscopic thoracic sympathectomy
• Corposcindosis, "split-body syndrome", an autonomic nervous system disease caused by endoscopic thoracic sympathectomy
• Cowden syndrome

[edit] Other

• cs, a digraph in Hungarian alphabet
• Caraş-Severin, a county in Romania
• Cat Stevens, a Legendary British singer/songwriter and a prominent convert to Islam (now known as "Yusuf Islam")
• Cauchy-Schwarz inequality, a useful inequality encountered in many different areas of mathematics
• Caught stealing, a baseball statistic parameter
• Centraal Station (Dutch); however, in the Netherlands names like Amsterdam CS have been changed into Amsterdam Centraal
• Ferrari Challenge Stradale, the bare-bones version of the Ferrari 360 Modena car
• Christian Science, a Christian teaching regarding the efficacy of spiritual healing according to the interpretation of the Bible
• Chapman Stick, a musical instrument
• CinemaScope, a widescreen picture-format used for motion pictures
• Civil society, a society based on voluntary civic and social organizations and institutions
• College Station, small town in the State of Texas and home to Texas A&M University
• Comprehensive school, a type of school providing secondary level education in England and Wales
• Conservative Shithead, a song by Napalm Death
• CouchSurfing Project, a free international Internet-based hospitality service
• Creation science, a name for the attempts by creationists to use the methods of science to support their side of the creation-evolution controversy
• Crédit Suisse, a financial services company, headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland
• Cuddle sleep
• Customer satisfaction, a subjective indicator for business success.
• Customer service, the provision of labour and other resources, for increasing the value that buyers receive from their purchases
• Cybersex or computer sex, a virtual sex encounter over a computer network
• The Chamber of Secrets in the Harry Potter novel Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
• Construction Standard