OSS
Appearance
OSS or Oss may refer to:
Places
[edit]- Oss, a city and municipality in the Netherlands
- Osh Airport, IATA code OSS
People with the name
[edit]- Oss (surname), a surname
Arts and entertainment
[edit]- O.S.S. (film), a 1946 World War II spy film about Office of Strategic Services agents
- Oss (film), a 1976 Norwegian post-apocalyptic disaster film
- O.S.S. (TV series), a British spy series which aired in 1957 in the UK and the US
- Open Source Shakespeare, a non-commercial website with texts and statistics on Shakespeare's plays
- Old Syriac Sinaiticus, a Bible manuscript
- Organization of Super Spies, a fictional organization in the Spy Kids franchise
Education
[edit]- ÖSS (Öğrenci Seçme Sınavı), a former university entrance exam in Turkey
- Options Secondary School, Chula Vista, California
- Otto Stern School for Integrated Doctoral Education, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Outram Secondary School, Singapore
Organizations
[edit]- Observatoire du Sahara et du Sahel, dedicated to fighting desertification and drought; based in Tunis, Tunisia
- Office for Science and Society, Science Education from Montreal's McGill University
- Office of Strategic Services, World War II forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency
- Office of the Supervising Scientist, an Australian Government body under the Supervising Scientist
- Offshore Super Series, an offshore powerboat racing organization
- One-stop shop, a government office where multiple services are offered in a centralized location rather than in different places
- Open Spaces Society, a UK registered charity championing public paths and open spaces
- Operations Support Squadron, a United States Air Force support squadron
- Optimized Systems Software, a former software company
Science and technology
[edit]- Ohio Sky Survey
- Optical SteadyShot, a lens-based image stabilization system by Sony
- Optimal Stereo Sound, another name for the Jecklin Disk recording technique
- Oriented spindle stop, a type of spindle motion used within some G-code cycles
- Ovary Sparing Spay (OSS)
- Overspeed Sensor System (OSS), part of the Train Protection & Warning System for railroad trains
Computer software and hardware
[edit]- OpenSearchServer, search engine software
- Open Sound System, a standard interface for making and capturing sound in Unix operating systems
- Open-source software, software with its source code made freely available
- Operations support systems, computers used by telecommunications service providers to administer and maintain network systems
Other uses
[edit]- OSS Fighters, a Romania-based kickboxing promotion
- Order of St. Sava, a Serbian decoration
- Ossetic language ISO 639 code oss
- Oss (greeting), a casual Japanese salutation
- Óss (rune) or Ansuz, a character of the Elder Futhark