APS

APS or Aps or aps or similar may mean:

Education

* Army Public School, group of Army schools India under AWES
* APS Netherlands, or APS International, a Dutch educational non-governmental organization
* Abbottabad Public School and College
* Acting Police Sergeant
* Albuquerque Public Schools
* Assisted Places Scheme
* Associated Public Schools of Victoria
* Atlanta Public Schools

Places

* Anápolis, Goiás, Brazil, from its IATA airport code
* Apsley railway station, Apsley, England, from its National Rail code
* Alba-la-Romaine, Ardèche, France, known as "Aps" until 1904 and called "Alba Augusta" in Roman times

cience and medicine

* APS Therapy, a Microcurrent Electrical Therapy for pain relief
* adenosine 5´ phosphosulfate, a substrate used in pyrosequencing
* Advanced Photon Source, a synchrotron X-ray source at Argonne National Laboratory
* Algebra of Physical Space
* American Physical Society
* American Physiological Society
* American Phytopathological Society
* Ammonium Persulfate
* Antiphospholipid syndrome
* Apus (constellation) (standard astronomical abbreviation Aps)
* Association for Psychological Science
* Attending physician's statement
* Autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome

Computing and Technology

* Autoprotection switching, a computer networking system
* Active pixel sensor
* Active protection system, that shuts down the harddisc when there's risk for damage from mechanical shock. used on IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad laptops.
* Advanced Photo System
* Alt-preset-standard, a popular setting for the LAME mp3 audio software
* Assembly Programming System
* Asynchronous Protocol Specification, or X.445, a telecommunications standard

Weapons

* APS Stechkin, Russian machine pistol.
* APS Underwater Assault Rifle
* Active protection system, a system to protect tanks from anti-tank guided missiles

Transport

* Accessible Pedestrian Signal
* Acoustic Parking System
* Alimentation par Sol, a system for delivering third-rail power to trams
* Autopilot system
* US Navy Hull classification symbol for Transport Submarine

Organizations and firms

* Advanced Protection Services
* Adult Protective Services
* Alternative Press Syndicate, formerly Underground Press Syndicate
* American Philatelic Society, or their postage stamp authentication service
* American Philosophical Society
* American Public Television, formerly American Program Service
* APS Consulting Engineers
* Arizona Public Service, an electric power company
* Armenian Professional Society
* Army Public School, group of Army schools India under AWES
* Associated Professional Systems
* Association for Psychological Science
* Australian Psychological Society
* Australian Public Service
* Australian Federal Police Protective Service, formerly Australian Protective Service
* Austrian Peace Service

Miscellaneous

* Acting Police Sergeant
* Advanced Planning & Scheduling
* Argument from poverty of the stimulus, a theory of language acquisition in linguistics
* Advanced Photo System, a photographic film format
* ApS, a designation for Danish businesses
* Australian Pink Floyd Show, a tribute band of Pink Floyd
* Attending physician statement
* abbreviation for 'appearances', used in soccer statistics to show how many matches a player appeared in

ee also

* apse