SS (disambiguation)

SS is an abbreviation for Schutzstaffel (Protection Squadron), a paramilitary organisation in Nazi Germany.

SS, Ss, or similar may also refer to:

Places

• American Samoa, former two-letter NATO code
• Guangdong Experimental High School (Sheng Shi or Saang Sat), China
• Province of Sassari, Italy (vehicle plate code)
• South Sudan (ISO 3166-1 code SS)
• SS postcode area, UK, around Southend-on-Sea
• San Sebastián, Spanish city

Arts, entertainment, and media

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

Language

• Ss (digraph) used in Pinyin
• ß or ss, a German-language ligature
• SS switch-reference in linguistics
• Scilicet, used as a section sign
• sensu stricto (in the strict sense) in Latin
• Swazi language (ISO 639-1 code "ss")

Science and technology

• Stainless steel, sometimes marked SS
• Suspended solids and settleable solids, in water

Biology and medicine

• (+)-sabinene synthase, an enzyme
• Serotonin syndrome, due to some serotonergic medications
• Sjögren's syndrome, an autoimmune disease
• Sweet's syndrome or acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis

Computing

• .ss, top-level domain country code for South Sudan
• Screenshot, digital image showing contents of a computer display
• Slave select line on a computer data bus
• SS register in x86 processor
• Super speed USB, or USB 3.0
• ss, in the Unix iproute2 collection

Meteorology

• Subtropical storm, a category of subtropical cyclone.

Sports

• Sareen Sports Industries, India
• Shortstop, a fielding position in baseball and softball
• Special stage (rallying)
• Strong safety, a position in American and Canadian football

Transportation

• Corsair International (IATA airline code SS)
• Maatschappij tot Exploitatie van Staatsspoorwegen, a Dutch railroad
• Sand Springs Railway in Oklahoma, US, reporting mark
• Staatsspoorwegen, a Dutch East Indies railroad
• Stockholms Spårvägar, Swedish transport companies

Ships

• Ship prefix for steamboat
• Ship prefix for steamship
• Submarine, by US Navy hull classification

Vehicles

• Chevrolet SS, sport sedan
• SS Cars Ltd, Jaguar from 1945
• SS class blimp, for anti-submarine warfare
• Super Sport (Chevrolet), performance option
• SS (New York City Subway service), a former designation for the shuttles of the New York City Subway

Other uses

• Collar of Esses, a form of livery collar formerly known as a "Collar of SS"
• Safety stock, hedge against stockouts
• Social security
• Sea Scout
• Sanctioned Suicide, an internet forum for suicide discussion
• Society of the Priests of Saint Sulpice, post-nominal
• United States Secret Service (founded in 1865)
• Waffen-SS, a combat unit (1933-1945) related to the Schutzstaffel
• Shiv Sena, a political party in India
• Saints

See also

• "Double S", a 1978 song by Bill Anderson and Buddy Killen
• S/S (disambiguation)
• SS1 (disambiguation)
• SSS (disambiguation)