TS

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TS may stand for:

In biology, chemistry, medicine, meteorology and physics:

• Tensile strength, a measures of the force required to pull something
• Thymidylate synthase, the enzyme used to generate thymidine monophosphate
• Tosyl in chemistry, combines the toluene and sulfonyl functional groups
• Tourette syndrome, a neurological condition involving involuntary tics
• Transsexual, a person who identifies as the gender opposite to the sex assigned to them at birth
• Tropical storm, an organized system of strong thunderstorms
• Tuberous sclerosis, a disease that causes benign tumours in the brain and on other organs
• Turner syndrome, a group of chromosomal abnormalities

In business, computing and technology:

• MPEG transport stream (.ts), communications protocol for audio, video, and data
• TeamSpeak, a voice chat software
• TechSpot, an online computer enthusiast magazine
• Telesync, a movie piracy method
• Tenaris TS: NYSE, a global manufacturer of steel pipe products
• Terminal Services, a component of Microsoft Windows operating systems
• The Specialists, a multiplayer mod for the popular first-person shooter computer game Half-Life
• Tiberian Sun, a computer game in the Command & Conquer series
• Timestamp, a time code or a digitally signed timestamp as in {ts '2005-10-27 00:00:00'}
• Train simulator, a computer program that simulates rail transport operations
• Transaction server, a software component that is used in implementing transactions

In culture, politics and society:

• Teaspoon, as a unit of volume in cooking
• Theosophical Society, an organization to advance the doctrine of Theosophy
• Top Secret, a security classification
• Treaty series, a collection of United States treaties published by the US Department of State
• The Shield, tv show

In language, linguistics, literature and media:

• Tomorrow series, Australian novels
• Totally Spies, a French anime-influenced animated television series
• Toy Story, an animated feature film
• Ts (digraph), in the Latin alphabet
• Voiceless alveolar affricate, in linguistics, a type of consonantal sound

In music:

• Tegan and Sara, Canadian singer-songwriters
• Tenor saxophone, musical instrument, reeds
• Terror Squad, a New York hip hop crew and a record label
• Twisted Sister, a New York city heavy metal band

In transportation:

• Air Transat IATA code
• Tidewater Southern Railway, a short line railroad in Central California
• Turbine Ship, steamships powered by the steam turbine
• Twin Spark, an engine technology usually in the context of Alfa Romeo cars