PS

PS

PS, ps, and other variants may refer to:

Contents

Writing and linguistics

Entertainment, music and literature

Computers and technology

  • .ps, the Palestinian Internet domain extension or top-level domain (ccTLD)
  • ps (Unix), an application that displays statistics on running processes
  • Parametric Stereo, Audio Object Type defined and used in MPEG-4 Part 3 (MPEG-4 Audio) to further enhance efficiency in low bandwidth stereo media
  • PostScript, a page description language
  • Adobe Photoshop, a graphics editor and creator by Adobe
  • MPEG program stream, an MPEG-2 container format
  • Windows PowerShell, a Microsoft application

Chemistry

Units

  • Ps, picosecond, an SI unit of time equivalent to 10−12 of a second, standard abbreviation ps (uncapitalized)
  • PS, the German abbreviation for the word Pferdestärke, meaning horsepower
  • Peta second, an SI unit of time equivalent to 1015 seconds
  • Picosiemens, an SI unit of electric conductance based on the siemens

Transportation

Places

Religion

  • Ps, for Pastor, a minister in a Pentecostal Christian Church
  • Ps., abbreviation for Psalms, a book in the Tanakh or Christian Bible

Political parties

Companies and organizations

  • Pacific Securities, Kunming, Yunnan
  • PeopleSoft, an ERP software company
  • PeopleSupport, a Los Angeles-based business process outsourcing company

Games

Other uses

  • Public school (government funded), e.g., P.S. 45
  • Police Sergeant
  • Pyramid scheme, tricking people into making money for a company/individual through obligations and false pretenses of mutual gain
  • P.S., a patient with bilateral lesions of the thalamus, one of the first case-studies of autobiographical memory

See also

  • P.S. I Love You (disambiguation)

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