SS (disambiguation)

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SS, S.S., Ss, Ss., or ss may refer to:

Organisations

• SS or Schutzstaffel, a paramilitary organisation in Nazi Germany banned as criminal in 1945
• Secret service, a government agency, or the activities of a government agency, concerned with the gathering of intelligence data

Transportation

• Chevrolet SS (disambiguation), various full-size sports sedans
• SS, S.S. or S/S, abbreviation for a steamship or steamboat
  • SS, a common naming prefix for any merchant vessel
  • SS, a ship prefix identifying a ship's propulsion as steam-powered
• SS, hull classification symbol for submarines in the United States Navy
• SS, IATA code for Corsair International Airline based in Paris, France
• SS, NATO reporting name for missile systems developed by the Soviet Union
• SS, railroad reporting mark for the Sand Springs Railway in Oklahoma, USA
• SS, colloquial abbreviation of the Dutch Maatschappij tot Exploitatie van Staatsspoorwegen
• SS, the vehicle registration prefix for the Province of Sassari, Italy
• SS1 (disambiguation), various meanings including a car manufactured by the Swallow Coachbuilding Co. (1935) Ltd.
• SS Cars Ltd, a British car maker which in 1945 changed its name to Jaguar to avoid association with the Nazi SS
• SS class blimp, a class of anti-submarine warfare blimps
• Stockholms Spårvägar, a Swedish streetcar and bus company
• Super Sport, a performance option package offered by Chevrolet on many of its vehicles

Computing

• .ss, top-level domain country code for South Sudan
• SS, the ISO 3166-1 code for the nation of South Sudan
• SS register, or stack segment register, a term used in x86 computer architecture
• Sega Saturn, a video game console released by Sega in 1994
• Slave select or chip select, a control line for a computer data bus
• Super speed USB, an abbreviation for USB 3.0
• An abbreviation for server-side

Language

• ß or ss, a German language ligature
• § or ss., abbreviation for scilicet, meaning "namely" or "as follows"
• ss, abbreviation for sensu stricto, meaning "in the strict sense"
• ss, the ISO 639-1 code for the Swazi language
• SS or Ss., an abbreviation for Saints
• Ss (digraph), a Latin alphabet digraph used in Chinese transliteration for the phoneme /z/

Media and entertainment

• SS (band), an early Japanese hardcore punk band
• SS (manga), a Japanese comic produced between 2000 and 2003

Science, medicine and biology

• SS disease, an abbreviation for Sickle-cell disease
• Sjögren's syndrome, an autoimmune disease
• Sweet's syndrome or acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis, a disease
• (+)-sabinene synthase, an enzyme
• An abbreviation for "subjects", as used in Human subject research
• Systemic scleroderma or systemic sclerosis

Sports

• Shortstop, a fielding position in baseball and softball
• Special stage (rallying), a competitive section of a stage rally event
• Strong safety, a defensive position in American and Canadian football

Other uses

• SS postcode area, a group of postal codes surrounding Southend, in England
• Common name for Guangdong Experimental High School (Sheng Shi or Sang Sat), in Guangzhou, China
• SteadyShot, a sensor-based camera image stabilization system by Sony
• Scout Sniper, a trained sniper in the United States Marine Corps
• SS/ss./S.S., a contraction of scilicet used in legal papers to indicate venue

See also

• S/S (disambiguation)
• SSS (disambiguation)