PS

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PS, P.S., ps, and other variants may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• P.S. (film), a 2004 film
• PlayStation, a series of video game consoles developed by Sony Computer Entertainment
• PS Publishing, based in the U.K.

Music

• PS Classics, a record label

Albums

• P.S. (album), a compilation album of film music by Goran Bregovic
• P.S. (A Toad Retrospective), a compilation album of music by Toad The Wet Sprocket

Songs

• "PS", 2003 song by The Books from the album The Lemon of Pink
• "P.S.", 1993 song by James from the album Laid

Language

• Proto Semitic, the hypothetical proto-language ancestral to historical Semitic languages of the Middle East
• Pashto language, ISO 639 alpha-2 language code
• Postscript/post scriptum, writing added after the main body of a letter

Places

• Palau (FIPS PUB 10-4 territory code PS)
• State of Palestine (ISO 3166 country code PS)

Political parties

• Parti Socialiste (disambiguation), French
• Partido Socialista (disambiguation), Spanish and Portuguese
• Partito Socialista (disambiguation), Italian
• Positive Slovenia
• Social Democratic Party (Andorra) Partit Socialdemòcrata
• Socialist Party of Albania Partia Socialiste
• Socialist Party of Chile Partido Socialista de Chile
• Socialist Party of Romania Partidul Socialist [din România]
• True Finns Perussuomalaiset

Religion

• Pastors, ministers in some Christian churches
• Psalms, a book in the Tanakh and Christian Bibles

Science and technology

Units

• Petasecond (Ps), 10¹⁵ seconds, SI unit of time
• Pferdestärke (PS), abbreviation of the German term for metric horsepower
• Picosecond (ps), 10⁻¹² second, SI unit of time
• Picosiemens (pS), SI unit of electric conductance

Computing

• Adobe Photoshop, a graphics editor and creator by Adobe
• MPEG program stream, an MPEG-2 container format
• Parametric Stereo, feature used in digital audio
• PostScript, a page description language
  • .ps, filename extension for a file in PostScript format
• ps (Unix), an application that displays statistics on running processes
• .ps, the State of Palestine Internet domain extension or top-level domain (ccTLD)
• PS Power and Sample Size, an interactive computer program for power and sample size calculations
• Windows PowerShell, a command line scripting and system management shell for Microsoft Windows

Medicine

• Panayiotopoulos syndrome, a childhood seizure disorder
• Progeroid syndromes, a group of rare diseases causing premature aging
• Pulmonary stenosis or pulmonic stenosis, obstruction of the pulmonary artery of the heart

Physics and chemistry

• P_s or Static pressure, in fluid mechanics and aviation
• Proton Synchrotron, a 1959 particle accelerator at CERN
• Chloropicrin, a highly toxic chemical compound
• Phosphatidylserine, a phospholipid
• Phosphorothioate (or thiophosphate), a family of compounds and anions with the general chemical formula PS_4−xO_x³⁻ (x = 0, 1, 2, or 3)
• Polystyrene, a common type of plastic
• Ps, Positronium, pseudo-chemical symbol

Transportation

• PS, prefix used to identify a vessel as a paddle steamer
• Pacific Southwest Airlines, IATA designator of former airline
• Ukraine International Airlines, IATA airline designator

Other uses

• Police station, abbreviated "PS" in British police slang
• Public school (government funded) in the US
• iPhrothiya yeSiliva, a South African Military Award

See also

• P.S. I Love You (disambiguation)