SS (disambiguation)

SS is an abbreviation for Schutzstaffel, a former paramilitary organisation in Nazi Germany.

SS, Ss, or similar may refer to:

Places

Arts, entertainment, and media

  • SS (band), an early Japanese hardcore punk band
  • SS (manga), a Japanese comic produced between 2000 and 2003
  • SS Entertainment, a Korean entertainment company
  • S.S., for Sosthenes Smith, pseudonym of H. G. Wells's book A Vision of the Past
  • SS, the production code for the 1968 Doctor Who serial The Wheel in Space

Computing

  • .ss, top-level domain country code for South Sudan
  • Slave select or chip select, a control line for a computer data bus
  • SS register, or stack segment register, in x86 processor
  • Super speed USB, or USB 3.0
  • ss, a Unix command included in the iproute2 collection
  • Screenshot, a digital image of what should be visible on a visual output device

Language

  • Ss (digraph) used in Chinese transliteration for the phoneme /z/
  • ß or ss, a German language ligature
  • SS, a type of switch-reference in linguistics
  • Scilicet, used as a section sign
  • sensu stricto, Latin phrase meaning "in the strict sense"
  • Swazi language (ISO 639-1 code "ss")

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

  • (+)-sabinene synthase, an enzyme
  • Sjögren's syndrome, an autoimmune disease
  • Sweet's syndrome or acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis, a disease
  • Serotonin syndrome, a group of symptoms that may occur with the use of certain serotonergic medications or drugs

Sports

  • Shortstop, a fielding position in baseball and softball
  • Special stage (rallying)
  • Strong safety, a defensive position in American and Canadian football
  • SS Lazio, a football club from Italy

Transportation

Ships

Vehicles

  • Chevrolet SS, sport sedan
  • SS Cars Ltd, Jaguar from 1945
  • SS class blimp, for anti-submarine warfare
  • Super Sport (Chevrolet), performance option

Other uses

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gollark: No, just play the original Emu War web game.
gollark: It's pretty annoying that the wiki was destroyed in the Canon Wars.
gollark: I mean, nobody has if you count EWE: Fall of Australia.

See also

  • S/S (disambiguation)
  • SS1 (disambiguation)
  • SSS (disambiguation)
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