PSS

PSS may refer to:

Government and military organizations

 * Palestinian Security Services, the armed forces and intelligence agencies of the State of Palestine
 * Parliament Security Services, in charge of providing security to the Parliament of India
 * Presidential Security Service (South Korea), a South Korean close protection agency

Political parties

 * Sammarinese Socialist Party (Partito Socialista Sammarinese), San Marino
 * Senegalese Socialist Party (Parti Socialiste Sénégalais)
 * Strength of Serbia Movement (Pokret snaga Srbije), a political party in Serbia

Canada

 * Parkland Secondary School, North Saanich, Victoria, British Columbia
 * Penetanguishene Secondary School, Simcoe County District School Board, Ontario
 * Penticton Secondary School, Penticton, British Columbia
 * Pinetree Secondary School, Coquitlam, British Columbia
 * Parkview Secondary School, Hamilton, Ontario

Elsewhere

 * Park Secondary School, Dudley, West Midlands
 * Popatlal Secondary School, Tanga, Tanzania

Other businesses and organizations

 * Price Stern Sloan, a publishing imprint of Penguin
 * Product Support Services, a Microsoft business unit
 * PSS World Medical, an American distributor of medical products, equipment, billing services and pharmaceuticals
 * Pakistan Statistical Society, an academic and professional society of statisticians
 * Społem or PSS Społem, a Polish consumers' co-operative of local grocery stores
 * PSS (UK), a British social care charity
 * Personal Software Services, a defunct British video game publisher

Biology and medicine

 * Perceived Stress Scale, an instrument for measuring perceived stress in humans
 * Porcine stress syndrome, a condition in pigs
 * Portosystemic shunt, a disease found in humans, cats and dogs
 * Progressive systemic sclerosis, a rare chronic disease
 * Psychosocial short stature, a growth disorder that is caused by extreme stress

Computing

 * Packet Switch Stream, a British packet-switched network
 * Packet switching, a method of grouping data that is transmitted over a digital network into packets
 * Panorama Software Sys-On-Line
 * Passenger service system, systems used by airlines to manage reservations, inventory and check-in
 * Performance supervision system, a software system used to improve the performance of a process plant
 * Physical symbol system, a hypothesis in artificial intelligence research
 * Power system simulator for engineering (PSS®E or PSS/E), software to simulate electrical power transmission networks
 * Probabilistic signature scheme, a secure way of creating signatures with RSA
 * Proportional set size, a measure of computer program memory use

Physics and chemistry

 * Periodic steady-state analysis, type of simulation
 * Physica Status Solidi, a family of academic journals focused on solid state physics
 * Photostationary state, the equilibrium chemical composition under a specific kind of electromagnetic irradiation
 * Plasma sound source, a means of making sonar underwater
 * Polystyrene sulfonic acid, also known as sodium polystyrene sulfonate or poly(styrenesulfonate)
 * Practical Salinity Scale, the conductivity ratio of a sea water sample to a standard KCl solution

Other uses in technology

 * PSS silent pistol, a Soviet-designed silent handgun
 * PortaSound PSS series, a series of portable Yamaha keyboards
 * Power scale soaring, a form of radio controlled model flying
 * Power system stabilizer, in power generation; see Wide-area damping control

Sports teams and stadia

 * Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Stadium, Colombo, Sri Lanka
 * Philippine Sports Stadium, Bocaue, Philippines
 * PFC Septemvri Sofia, a Bulgarian football club
 * Porvoon Salibandyseura, a Finnish sports club
 * PSS Sleman, an Indonesian football club

Other uses

 * Kaulong language (ISO 639:pss), an Austronesian language
 * Libertador General José de San Martín Airport (IATA code PSS), Posadas, Misiones, Argentina
 * Player Search System, how Pokémon X and Y players can connect to each other around the world
 * Project SuperStar (abbreviated PSS), a Singaporean singing reality-competition franchise
 * Product-service system, a system of consumer access to products, as an alternative to personal product ownership
 * Psalms, a book of the Hebrew Bible
 * PSS, a ship prefix meaning Palau State Ship
 * PSS Nkwen kidnapping, a 2008 kidnapping at Presbyterian Secondary School in Nkwen, near Bamenda, Cameroon
 * PSS-line, a fortified defense line in Finland during World War II; see Battle of Nietjärvi