SS (disambiguation)
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SS, S.S., Ss, Ss., or ss may refer to:
Organisations
- 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
Ships
- Steamship
- Steamboat
- Merchant vessel, by common naming prefix
- Submarine, according to United States Navy hull classifications
Other
- SS, IATA code for Corsair International Airline based in Paris, France
- Surface-to-surface missile developed by the Soviet Union, according to NATO reporting names
- SS, railroad reporting mark for the Sand Springs Railway in Oklahoma, U.S.
- 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 (Chevrolet), 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
- S.S., initials used by H. G. Wells, standing for Sosthenes Smith, under which he wrote A Vision of the Past
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
- SS Sunridges, an Indian cricket kit manufacturing company
- 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
- Sub-Saharan Africa
See also
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