SS (disambiguation)

SS, S.S., Ss, Ss., or ss may refer to:

Organisations

• Schutzstaffel, a paramilitary organisation in Nazi Germany banned as criminal in 1945
• Secret service, a government agency, or the activities of a government agency, concerned with the gathering of intelligence data

Transportation

Ships

• Steamship
• Steamboat
• Merchant vessel, by common naming prefix
• Submarine, according to United States Navy hull classifications

Other

• SS, IATA code for Corsair International Airline based in Paris, France
• Surface-to-surface missile developed by the Soviet Union, according to NATO reporting names
• SS, railroad reporting mark for the Sand Springs Railway in Oklahoma, U.S.
• SS, colloquial abbreviation of the Dutch Maatschappij tot Exploitatie van Staatsspoorwegen
• SS, the vehicle registration prefix for the Province of Sassari, Italy
• SS1 (disambiguation), various meanings including a car manufactured by the Swallow Coachbuilding Co. (1935) Ltd.
• SS Cars Ltd, a British car maker which in 1945 changed its name to Jaguar to avoid association with the Nazi SS
• SS class blimp, a class of anti-submarine warfare blimps
• Stockholms Spårvägar, a Swedish streetcar and bus company
• Super Sport (Chevrolet), a performance option package offered by Chevrolet on many of its vehicles

Computing

• .ss, top-level domain country code for South Sudan
• SS, the ISO 3166-1 code for the nation of South Sudan
• SS register, or stack segment register, a term used in x86 computer architecture
• Sega Saturn, a video game console released by Sega in 1994
• Slave select or chip select, a control line for a computer data bus
• Super speed USB, an abbreviation for USB 3.0
• An abbreviation for server-side

Language

• ß or ss, a German language ligature
• § or ss., abbreviation for scilicet, meaning "namely" or "as follows"
• ss, abbreviation for sensu stricto, meaning "in the strict sense"
• ss, the ISO 639-1 code for the Swazi language
• SS or Ss., an abbreviation for Saints
• Ss (digraph), a Latin alphabet digraph used in Chinese transliteration for the phoneme /z/

Media and entertainment

• SS (band), an early Japanese hardcore punk band
• SS (manga), a Japanese comic produced between 2000 and 2003
• S.S., initials used by H. G. Wells, standing for Sosthenes Smith, under which he wrote A Vision of the Past

Science, medicine and biology

• SS disease, an abbreviation for Sickle-cell disease
• Sjögren's syndrome, an autoimmune disease
• Sweet's syndrome or acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis, a disease
• (+)-sabinene synthase, an enzyme
• An abbreviation for "subjects", as used in Human subject research
• Systemic scleroderma or systemic sclerosis

Sports

• SS Sunridges, an Indian cricket kit manufacturing company
• Shortstop, a fielding position in baseball and softball
• Special stage (rallying), a competitive section of a stage rally event
• Strong safety, a defensive position in American and Canadian football

Other uses

• SS postcode area, a group of postal codes surrounding Southend, in England
• Common name for Guangdong Experimental High School (Sheng Shi or Sang Sat), in Guangzhou, China
• SteadyShot, a sensor-based camera image stabilization system by Sony
• Scout Sniper, a trained sniper in the United States Marine Corps
• SS/ss./S.S., a contraction of scilicet used in legal papers to indicate venue
• Sub-Saharan Africa

See also

• S/S (disambiguation)
• SSS (disambiguation)