title: ELS
text: # ELS
  
  ELS or Els may refer to:
  
  ## Education
  
  * Emerson Literary Society, a social society at Hamilton College
  * Empirical legal studies
  * English Language School, Dubai
  * Europeesche Lagere School, a school system in the colonial Dutch East Indies
  * Expeditionary learning schools, in the United States
  
  ## Medicine and science
  
  * Early Life Stage test, a chronic toxicity test
  * Eaton–Lambert syndrome, a muscle disease
  * Editor in the Life Sciences, a professional certification
  * ELS cotton (Gossypium barbadense), a species of cotton
  * Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, an online encyclopedia
  
  ## People
  
  * Els (given name), a feminine given name short for Elisabeth
  * Ernie Els (born 1969), South African golfer
  * Jurie Els, South African singer
  
  ## Technology
  
  * Electrophoretic light scattering
  * Engineered Lifting Systems & Equipment, a Canadian manufacturing company
  * Ensemble de Lancement Soyouz, a launch pad at Guiana Space Centre
  * Extreme Loading for Structures, structural analysis software
  * Emergency Light System, emergency lighting installed on emergency vehicles
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Els (Streu), a river in Germany
  * East London Airport, in South Africa
  * Edinburgh Labour Students, a student wing of the Labour Party of the United Kingdom
  * Equidistant letter sequence, a bible code method
  * Escanaba and Lake Superior Railroad, in the United States
  * Evangelical Lutheran Synod, a US-based Protestant Christian denomination
  * Liberation Army of the South (Spanish: Ejército Libertador del Sur), an armed group active during the Mexican Revolution
  