GS

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GS may stand for:

Contents 1 Places 2 People 3 Technologies 4 Sports 5 Organizations 6 Media and Games 7 Government and Regulatory 8 Miscellaneous 9 Automotive/Motorcycle

[edit] Places

• Gaza Strip
• Golden State, Nickname for California
• South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (ISO country code)
  • .gs, an Internet country code top-level domain

[edit] People

• The American singer, Gwen Stefani

[edit] Technologies

• Glideslope
• 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
• The group separator character in the C0 control code set.
• The Apple IIGS was a computer in the Apple II series, named for its graphic and sound capabilities

[edit] Sports

• Games started, a sports statistic
• The shortened form for Turkish sports club Galatasaray
• Giant Slalom skiing
• Grand Slam, an occurrence in baseball when someone hits a home run while the bases are loaded.

[edit] Organizations

• Girl Scouts of the USA
• Goldman Sachs, (NYSE: GS), is one of the world's largest global investment banks.
• GS Group, a Korean company which is a spin-off from the LG Group
• Geological Society of London, the oldest geological society in the world.
• Supermercati GS, an Italian supermarket chain. GS=Generale Supermercati

[edit] Media and Games

• GameShark, a video game cheating device
• GameSpot, an online gaming community
• GemStone IV, a text-based multiplayer online roleplaying game by Simutronics Corp.
• Golden Sun, a video game for the Game Boy Advance
• Graphics Synthesizer, the GPU for the PlayStation 2
• Green Screen, a variant of the 'blue screen' technique used in visual effects
• Group Sounds, a genre of Japanese rock
• Gundam Seed, a Japanese anime television series which is part of the Gundam franchise
• Pokémon Gold and Silver
• Game Show

[edit] Government and Regulatory

• General Schedule, a prefix designating a pay grade in the United States civil service
• Geprüfte Sicherheit, a safety mark appearing on electrical equipment

[edit] Miscellaneous

• Air Foyle IATA airline designator
• General Silicones
• Giant spiral galaxy, galaxy code "gS"
• Gilbert's syndrome, a liver enzyme disorder which can cause elevated levels of serum bilirubin.
• in BSDM an abbreviation for "golden showers"
• Grant Aviation IATA airline designator
• Gulf Standards
• in pharmacology, G_s is a stimulatory G-protein coupled receptor which can lead to an intracellular increase in cAMP
• Gs is a frequent misspelling of g, the physical unit g-force

[edit] Automotive/Motorcycle

• BMW GS on-road/off-road motorcycles (e.g. R1100GS)
• 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
• GS Yuasa Corp, car battery maker.