STS

STS, or sts, may refer to:

Medicine

 * Secondary traumatic stress, a condition which leads to a diminished ability to empathize
 * Sequence-tagged site, a gene-reference in genomics
 * Soft-tissue sarcoma
 * Staurosporine, an antibiotic
 * STS (gene), which codes for steroid sulfatase
 * Superior temporal sulcus
 * Sinus tarsi syndrome, a foot condition

Places

 * Semipalatinsk Test Site for Soviet nuclear weapons
 * Staffordshire, county in England, Chapman code

Transport

 * Cadillac STS, a luxury car
 * NASA Space Transportation System, the system in which the NASA shuttle is part of and only surviving component of; starting as a 1969 NASA proposal system for reusable space vehicles
 * NASA Space Shuttle program, the shuttle program itself, whose mission were referred to with STS-numbering
 * Sail training ship, a ship prefix
 * Satellite Transit System, now called the SEA Underground, airport transit in Seattle-Tacoma International Airport
 * Ship-to-ship transfer, between seagoing ships
 * Société de transport de Sherbrooke, a public bus system in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
 * Société de transport du Saguenay, a public bus system in Saguenay, Quebec, Canada
 * Sonar Technician Submarine, a US Navy rating
 * STS, the IATA airport code for Charles M. Schulz - Sonoma County Airport
 * STS, the National Rail code for Saltash railway station, Cornwall, UK

Science and technology

 * Space Tourism Society
 * Scanning tunneling spectroscopy
 * Science and technology studies, a.k.a. science, technology, and society
 * Sociotechnical system
 * Special treatment steel, used by the US Navy c.1910
 * Static transfer switch, a semiconductor switch
 * STS 5 an Australopithecus specimen
 * Suomenkielisten teknikkojen seura, now incorporated into Academic Engineers and Architects in Finland TEK

Computing and communications

 * HTTP Strict Transport Security
 * Security token service, a web service
 * Set Transmit State, hex 93 in the C1 set of control codes
 * Spring Tool Suite, IDE for Spring Framework
 * Station-to-Station protocol, a cryptographic key agreement scheme
 * Synergy Teleconferencing System, a PC-based chat server
 * Serviciul de Telecomunicaţii Speciale, the Romanian special telecommunication service
 * STS Relay, US speech to speech relay service for people with a speech disability
 * STS (TV channel), Russia
 * Synchronous transport signal, in synchronous optical networking
 * Saga Television Station, a Japanese commercial broadcaster

Culture

 * Satanas, a Filipino-American gang
 * Stepover toehold sleeper, a wrestling hold
 * S.T.S. (band), an Austropop band

Societies, organizations and companies

 * Scottish Tartans Society, a defunct Scottish society
 * Sisu Terminal Systems, a former terminal tractor producer
 * Society of the Holy Trinity (Societas Trinitatis Sanctae – STS), Lutheran ministerium
 * Suomen Työväen Säästöpankki, a defunct Finnish commercial bank
 * Hitachi Rail STS, formerly known as Ansaldo STS, a company specializing in railway signalling and control systems

Other uses

 * Saints, the plural of Saint, for example: Sts. Peter and Paul
 * Short-term business statistics
 * Strathcona-Tweedsmuir School, Alberta, Canada
 * Susquehannock Trail System, Pennsylvania, US