CNS

CNS may refer to:

Science and medicine

 * Central nervous system
 * Clinical nurse specialist
 * Coagulase-negative staphylococcus
 * Connectedness to nature scale
 * Conserved non-coding sequence of DNA
 * Crigler–Najjar syndrome
 * Crystallography and NMR system, a software library
 * Color Naming System

Military

 * CNS (chemical weapon), a mixture of chloroacetophenone, chloropicrin and chloroform
 * Chief of the Naval Staff (disambiguation), in several countries
 * Former Taiwanese navy ship prefix

Education

 * Cicero-North Syracuse High School, New York, US
 * City of Norwich School, England
 * Computation and Neural Systems, a Caltech program

Organisations

 * Canadian Nuclear Society
 * Chinese Nuclear Society
 * Congress of Neurological Surgeons
 * Corporation for National Service, later the Corporation for National and Community Service, commonly known as AmeriCorps
 * Council for National Security, military junta of Thailand in 2006
 * Cuban National Series, baseball league
 * Szekler National Council (Consiliul Național Secuiesc), Romania

Media

 * Cartoon Network Studios
 * Catholic News Service
 * China News Service
 * CNSNews, formerly Cybercast News Service

Other

 * Cairns International Airport, IATA code
 * Chateau Neuf Spelemannslag, Norwegian folk music group
 * Chinese National Standards
 * Cooper Nuclear Station, a nuclear power plant in United States
 * Communication, navigation and surveillance, in air traffic management
 * Custody Notification Service, Australian advice service
 * "Cell, Nature, or Science" : a "CNS Paper" means a scientific publication in one of these high-evaluated scientific journals