title: PSS
text: # PSS
  
  PSS may refer to:
  
  ## Businesses and organizations
  
  ### Government and military organizations
  
  * Palestinian Security Services, the armed forces and intelligence agencies of the State of Palestine
  * Parliament Security Services, in charge of providing security to the Parliament of India
  * Presidential Security Service (South Korea), a South Korean close protection agency
  
  ### Political parties
  
  * Sammarinese Socialist Party (Italian: Partito Socialista Sammarinese), San Marino
  * Senegalese Socialist Party (French: Parti Socialiste Sénégalais)
  * Strength of Serbia Movement (Pokret snaga Srbije), a political party in Serbia
  
  ### Schools
  
  **Canada**
  
  * Parkland Secondary School, North Saanich, Victoria, British Columbia
  * Penetanguishene Secondary School, Simcoe County District School Board, Ontario
  * Penticton Secondary School, Penticton, British Columbia
  * Pinetree Secondary School, Coquitlam, British Columbia
  * Parkview Secondary School, Hamilton, Ontario
  
  **Elsewhere**
  
  * Park Secondary School, Dudley, West Midlands
  * Popatlal Secondary School, Tanga, Tanzania
  
  ### Other businesses and organizations
  
  * Price Stern Sloan, a publishing imprint of Penguin
  * Product Support Services, a Microsoft business unit
  * PSS World Medical, an American distributor of medical products, equipment, billing services and pharmaceuticals
  * Pakistan Statistical Society, an academic and professional society of statisticians
  * Społem or PSS Społem, a Polish consumers' co-operative of local grocery stores
  * PSS (UK), a British social care charity
  * Personal Software Services, a defunct British video game publisher
  
  ## Science and technology
  
  ### Biology and medicine
  
  * Perceived Stress Scale, an instrument for measuring perceived stress in humans
  * Porcine stress syndrome, a condition in pigs
  * Portosystemic shunt, a disease found in humans, cats and dogs
  * Progressive systemic sclerosis, a rare chronic disease
  * Psychosocial short stature, a growth disorder that is caused by extreme stress
  
  ### Computing
  
  * Packet Switch Stream, a British packet-switched network
  * Packet switching, a method of grouping data that is transmitted over a digital network into packets
  * Panorama Software Sys-On-Line
  * Passenger service system, systems used by airlines to manage reservations, inventory and check-in
  * Performance supervision system, a software system used to improve the performance of a process plant
  * Physical symbol system, a hypothesis in artificial intelligence research
  * Power system simulator for engineering (PSS®E or PSS/E), software to simulate electrical power transmission networks
  * Probabilistic signature scheme, a secure way of creating signatures with RSA
  * Proportional set size, a measure of computer program memory use
  
  ### Physics and chemistry
  
  * Periodic steady-state analysis, type of simulation
  * Physica Status Solidi, a family of academic journals focused on solid state physics
  * Photostationary state, the equilibrium chemical composition under a specific kind of electromagnetic irradiation
  * Plasma sound source, a means of making sonar underwater
  * Polystyrene sulfonic acid, also known as sodium polystyrene sulfonate or poly(styrenesulfonate)
  * Practical Salinity Scale, the conductivity ratio of a sea water sample to a standard KCl solution
  
  ### Other uses in technology
  
  * PSS silent pistol, a Soviet-designed silent handgun
  * PortaSound PSS series, a series of portable Yamaha keyboards
  * Power scale soaring, a form of radio controlled model flying
  * Power system stabilizer, in power generation; see Wide-area damping control
  
  ## Sports teams and stadia
  
  * Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Stadium, Colombo, Sri Lanka
  * Philippine Sports Stadium, Bocaue, Philippines
  * PFC Septemvri Sofia, a Bulgarian football club
  * Porvoon Salibandyseura, a Finnish sports club
  * PSS Sleman, an Indonesian football club
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Kaulong language (ISO 639:pss), an Austronesian language
  * Libertador General José de San Martín Airport (IATA code PSS), Posadas, Misiones, Argentina
  * Player Search System, how Pokémon X and Y players can connect to each other around the world
  * Project SuperStar (abbreviated PSS), a Singaporean singing reality-competition franchise
  * Product-service system, a system of consumer access to products, as an alternative to personal product ownership
  * Psalms, a book of the Hebrew Bible
  * PSS, a ship prefix meaning Palau State Ship
  * PSS Nkwen kidnapping, a 2008 kidnapping at Presbyterian Secondary School in Nkwen, near Bamenda, Cameroon
  * PSS-line, a fortified defense line in Finland during World War II; see Battle of Nietjärvi
  