POS
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POS or PoS may mean:
- Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, a disease of the ovaries.
- Part of speech, the role that a word (or sometimes a phrase) plays in a sentence.
- Point of sale. A POS device enables an efficient recording of the data that comprises a business transaction when the sale of goods or services to the customer occurs.
- Proceedings of Science, an electronic publishing service for proceedings of scientific conferences.
- Procure On Site, relating to contact information or accessories.
- P/OS, the Professional Operating System sold by Digital Equipment Corporation for their PRO-300, PRO-350, and PRO-380 PDP-11-compatible line of personal computers.
- EFTPOS or POS Terminal is a device by which sales transactions can be directly debited to the customer's bank account
- programmable option select, the predecessor to plug-and-play
- Packet over SONET/SDH, a communications protocol for transferring packets over fiber networks
- Product of Sums: see maxterms.
- Plasma Opening Switch, a type of electric switch using plasma technologies.
- Point of service plan, a type of health insurance - patients choose their doctor and he/she will be their "point of service" -similar to an HMO, but is more flexible.
- Post Office Sorting van, a type of rail vehicle used in a Travelling Post Office train
- POS is the IATA code for the Port of Spain Piarco International Airport.
- TGV POS, a French high-speed train.
- POS is the New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol for Catalina Marketing.
- Other
- Short for "position", the position an athlete plays in sports
- POS is an internet acronym for "Parents Over Shoulder", signifying to people in chat rooms or instant message conversations that someone's parents are behind them or may be within a near vicinity and to watch what is said. Also BOS is sometimes used for Boss Over Shoulder and is a self-referencing pun (since BOS is pronounced the same as boss).
- P.O.S., a hip-hop artist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
- Pain of Salvation, a Swedish progressive metal band.
- Perq Operating System
- Piece of shit, a profanity saying something is of poor quality or broken. Or a literal piece of shit.
- Short for probability of success
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