POS
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POS or PoS may refer to:
- Polycystic ovary syndrome, a disease of the ovaries
- Point of sale, the location where a business transaction occurs
- EFTPOS or POS Terminal, a device by which sales transactions can be directly debited to the customer's bank account
- Point of service plan, a type of health insurance in which patients choose their doctor and he/she will be their "point of service"
- Packet over SONET/SDH, a communications protocol for transferring packets over fiber networks
- Piarco International Airport (IATA airport code: POS)
- Pos (also known as Poseidon), a chess playing program
- Proceedings of Science, an electronic publishing service for proceedings of scientific conferences
- SNCF TGV POS, a French high-speed train
- Product of Sums: see maxterms
- 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
- Perq Operating System
- Post Office Sorting Van, a type of rail vehicle used in a Travelling Post Office train
- P.O.S., a hip-hop artist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Pain of Salvation, a Swedish progressive metal band
- Priory of Sion, a fictitious secret society
- Part of speech, the role that a word or phrase plays in a sentence
- Piece of shit, a profanity saying something is of poor quality or broken
- Probability of success
- Pomona (Amtrak station), California, United States; Amtrak station code POS