SPS
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The abbreviation SPS stands for items in the following categories:
City
Computer and gaming hardware and software
- Shell Processing Support; a standard file format to exchange Seismic data
- Simple, Powerful Statistics; a computer program for using Rodger's method
- Site Preview System; a content bundling and scheduling system for the Drupal website content management system
- Symbolic Programming System; a code assembler developed by IBM
Educational, scholarly, and professional institutions
- St Paul's School, London
- St. Paul's School (Concord, New Hampshire), a boarding school in the United States
- St. Patrick's School, Asansol, an old school in Asansol, India
- Sigma Pi Sigma, an honor society in the United States
- Social and Political Sciences, of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom
- Society for Pentecostal Studies, an association of biblical scholars
- Society of Physics Students, an international professional association
- Swiss Society of Proteomics, see Life Sciences Switzerland
- Software Preservation Society, a society dedicated to preserving obsolete software
- Seattle Public Schools, the school district serving the city of Seattle
Medicine and psychology
- Stiff person syndrome, a rare neurologic disorder
- P600/SPS (short for syntactic positive shift), an event-related potential in brain imaging
Politics, treaties, political parties, and government uses
- Socialist Party of Serbia (Socijalistička partija Srbije), a political party in Serbia
- Union of Right Forces (Soyuz Pravykh Sil), a former political party in Russia
- Sahara Press Service, the press agency of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
- Single Payment Scheme, a European Union Common Agricultural Policy subsidy payment system
- Scottish Prison Service
- Singapore Prison Service
- Somali Postal Service
- State Police Services, number of police services in India
- Sanitary and Phytosanitary Agreement, an international treaty of the World Trade Organization
- The Standard Procurement System for the US Department of Defense
- Staff and Personnel Support Branch of the British Army Adjutant General's Corps
Science and engineering
- Samples per second, the sampling rate in converting a continuous signal to a discrete one
- Service propulsion system, the rocket engine on the United States Apollo Program Service Module
- Side protection system, another term for a torpedo belt, a part of armoured warship design
- Small polyp stony, term for a class of Scleractinia corals
- Solanapyrone synthase, an alternative name for the enzyme Prosolanapyrone-III cycloisomerase
- Solar power satellite, an orbital satellite designed to beam solar power down to Earth
- Spark plasma sintering, a sintering technique
- SAME code SPS, used for weather statement and alerts
- Stand-alone power system (SPS or SAPS)
- Standard positioning service, a GPS feature
- Strobes per second, a metric in the machine vision lights industry
- Super Proton Synchrotron, a particle accelerator at CERN
- Shore Power System, a system whereby ships in port connect to a shore electricity supply. This aims to reduce atmospheric pollution caused by exhaust from the ship's diesel generators. This is also known as AMP (Alternative Marine Power)
Other uses
- Wichita Falls Municipal Airport (IATA airport code)
- Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway, a defunct railroad in the United States
- Station police sergeant, or station sergeant, a defunct British police rank
- Sussex Piscatorial Society, a fishing club in the United Kingdom
- St. Patrick's Missionary Society, a society of missionary secular priests of Ireland (or S.P.S.)
- Sony Imaging Pro Support, a service program for Sony professional photographers