KS

KS and variants may refer to:

Businesses and organizations

 * Kampfschwimmer, a German postwar commando frogman force
 * Kommandittselskap, a Norwegian type of company
 * Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities
 * Keenspot, a webcomics/webtoons portal founded in March 2000 by cartoonist Chris Crosby
 * KS, IATA code of de:AirConnect, a Romanian airline
 * KS, then-IATA code of PenAir, Peninsula Airways, a defunct airline based in Anchorage, Alaska, US

Language

 * Kashmiri language, a Dardic language of Kashmir (ISO 639 alpha-2 language code "ks")
 * Kernowek Standard, an orthography for Revived Cornish
 * Kiasu, Hokkien (a Chinese spoken variant) word for 'extreme fear of losing' (怕输)
 * Sound of the Latin letter X in many languages

Places

 * Kansas (US postal abbreviation KS)
 * South Kalimantan, Indonesia (ISO 3166-2 province code)
 * Krems an der Donau, Austria (vehicle plate code)
 * Kassel, Germany (vehicle plate code)
 * Khatumo State, an unrecognised proto-state in northern Somalia
 * Northampton, Great Britain (vehicle plate code)
 * Košice-okolie District, Slovakia (vehicle plate code)

Science, technology, and mathematics

 * Kaposi's sarcoma, a tumor caused by Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV8)
 * Kartagener syndrome, a genetic disorder
 * Kallmann syndrome, a genetic disorder preventing the start or completion of puberty
 * Keratan sulfate, any of several sulfated glycosaminoglycans
 * Kernel streaming, a method of processing streamed data
 * Ketoacyl synthase, a domain of polyketide synthases with a thiol group on a cysteine side-chain
 * kilosample (kS), 1000 samples of a digitized signal
 * Kilosecond (ks), 1000 seconds (16 minutes, 40 seconds)
 * Klinefelter's Syndrome, caused by a chromosome aneuploidy
 * Kolmogorov–Smirnov test, a goodness-of-fit test for probability distributions

Other uses

 * Kammersänger, a German honorary title for a distinguished opera singer
 * Kaplan–Sheinwold, a contract bridge bidding system
 * Key Stage, a term used in the British education system
 * Kill stealing, a practice in online games
 * King's Scholar, at a UK public school
 * King's Serjeant, an obsolete UK legal post
 * Kirk/Spock or K/S, slash fiction
 * Kashmiri Wikipedia, Wikipedia in Kashmiri-language
 * Strikeouts, in baseball
 * Contracts, in legal shorthand
 * Slovak koruna, the currency of Slovakia 1993–2008 and of the 1939–1945 Slovak State
 * Ketfom elshemy, this is the adjective of balls in Egyptian culture.