SS (disambiguation)

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SS is an abbreviation for Schutzstaffel, a former paramilitary organisation in Nazi Germany.

SS, Ss, or similar may refer to:

Arts 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
• Silent Sanctuary, a Filipino alternative rock band

Government and military

• Scout Sniper, a trained sniper in the United States Marine Corps
• Secret service, a government agency, or the activities of a government agency, concerned with the gathering of intelligence data

Language

• ß or ss, a German language ligature
• Ss (digraph), a Latin alphabet digraph used in Chinese transliteration for the phoneme /z/
• scilicet (§ or ss.), Latin phrase meaning "namely" or "as follows"
• sensu stricto, Latin phrase meaning "in the strict sense"
• Scilicet, used in legal papers to indicate venue
• Swazi language (ISO 639-1 code "ss")
• SS, glossing abbreviation for "same subject" in switch-reference

Places

• Guangdong Experimental High School (Sheng Shi or Sang Sat), in Guangzhou, China
• Province of Sassari, Italy (vehicle plate code)
• South Sudan (ISO 3166-1 code SS)
• SS postcode area, UK, a group of postal codes surrounding Southend, in England
• Sub-Saharan Africa

Science and technology

• Stainless steel, often tagged as SS to differentiate from plain steel.
• SteadyShot, a sensor-based camera image stabilization system by Sony
• Suspended solids, small solid particles in water

Computing

• .ss, top-level domain country code for South Sudan
• Sega Saturn, a video game console released by Sega in 1994
• Server-side, operations that are performed by the server in a client–server relationship
• Slave select or chip select, a control line for a computer data bus
• SS register, or stack segment register, a term used in x86 computer architecture
• Super speed USB, an abbreviation for USB 3.0

Biology and medicine

• (+)-sabinene synthase, an enzyme
• Sickle-cell disease
• Sjögren's syndrome, an autoimmune disease (or Sicca syndrome)
• Subjects, as used in human subject research
• Sweet's syndrome or acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis, a disease
• Systemic scleroderma or systemic sclerosis

Vehicles

• SS class blimp, a class of anti-submarine warfare blimps
• Super Sport (Chevrolet), a performance option package offered by Chevrolet on many of its vehicles
• Surface-to-surface missile developed by the Soviet Union, according to NATO reporting names

Ships

• Ship prefix for (single-screw) steamship
• Steamship
• Steamboat
• Submarine, by US Navy hull classification

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

Transportation

• Corsair International (IATA airline code SS)
• Maatschappij tot Exploitatie van Staatsspoorwegen, a Dutch private railroad
• Sand Springs Railway in Oklahoma, US (railroad reporting mark SS)
• SS Cars Ltd, a British car maker which in 1945 changed its name to Jaguar to avoid association with the Nazi SS
• Stockholms Spårvägar, a Swedish streetcar and bus company

Other uses

• Saints

See also

• S/S (disambiguation)
• SSS (disambiguation)
• SS1 (disambiguation)