POS

Look up POS, pos, or pòs in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

POS, Pos or PoS may refer to:

Business

Point of sale, location where payment is accepted

Health and medicine

Point of service plan, a type of managed care health insurance plan in the United States
Polycystic ovary syndrome, a disease of the ovaries
Probability of success, in statistics

Linguistics

Part of speech, the role that a word or phrase plays in a sentence
Sayula Popoluca (ISO 639-3), an indigenous language spoken in Veracruz, Mexico
Poverty of the stimulus, a linguistic term used in language acquisition and development
Piece of shit, usually considered vulgar and profane in Modern English

Music

P.O.S (rapper) (born 1981), or Stefon Alexander, American hip hop artist
Pain of Salvation, Swedish progressive metal band
Posdnuos (born 1969), or Kelvin Mercer, New York hip-hop artist

Places

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Piarco International Airport, in Piarco, Trinidad and Tobago (by IATA code)

Technology

Software

P/OS, operating system of DEC Professional PCs from Digital Equipment Corporation
Packet over SONET/SDH, a communications protocol for transferring packets over fiber networks
PERQ Operating System, operating system for PERQ workstations
Proof-of-stake, a cryptocurrency blockchain distributed consensus method

Transportation

Piarco International Airport in Trinidad and Tobago (IATA airport code)
Pomona (Amtrak station), California, United States; Amtrak station code POS
Post Office Sorting Van, a type of rail vehicle used in a Travelling Post Office train
SNCF TGV POS, a French high-speed train

Other uses

Phi Omega Sigma (disambiguation), a Greek name for any of five different student organizations
Polytechnische Oberschule (POS), or Polytechnic Secondary School, the 10-year general educational system in East Germany
Priory of Sion, a fictitious secret society
Product of sums, a canonical form in Boolean algebra
Public open space, a planning term for an outdoor public forum

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