KS and variants may refer to:
Businesses and organizations
edit- Kampfschwimmer, a German postwar commando frogman force
- Kommandittselskap, a Norwegian type of company
- Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities
- Keenspot, a webcomics/webtoons portal founded in March 2000 by cartoonist Chris Crosby
- KS, IATA code of de:AirConnect, a Romanian airline
- KS, then-IATA code of PenAir, Peninsula Airways, a defunct airline based in Anchorage, Alaska, US
Language
edit- Kashmiri language, a Dardic language of Kashmir (ISO 639 alpha-2 language code "ks")
- Kernowek Standard, an orthography for Revived Cornish
- Kiasu, Hokkien (a Chinese spoken variant) word for 'extreme fear of losing' (怕输)
- Sound of the Latin letter X in many languages
Places
edit- Kansas (US postal abbreviation KS)
- South Kalimantan, Indonesia (ISO 3166-2 province code)
- Krems an der Donau, Austria (vehicle plate code)
- Kassel, Germany (vehicle plate code)
- Khatumo State, an unrecognised proto-state in northern Somalia
- Northampton, Great Britain (vehicle plate code)
- Košice-okolie District, Slovakia (vehicle plate code)
Science, technology, and mathematics
edit- Kaposi's sarcoma, a tumor caused by Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV8)
- Kartagener syndrome, a genetic disorder
- Kallmann syndrome, a genetic disorder preventing the start or completion of puberty
- Keratan sulfate, any of several sulfated glycosaminoglycans
- Kernel streaming, a method of processing streamed data
- Ketoacyl synthase, a domain of polyketide synthases with a thiol group on a cysteine side-chain
- kilosample (kS), 1000 samples of a digitized signal
- Kilosecond (ks), 1000 seconds (16 minutes, 40 seconds)
- Klinefelter's Syndrome, caused by a chromosome aneuploidy
- Kolmogorov–Smirnov test, a goodness-of-fit test for probability distributions
Other uses
edit- Katawa Shoujo, A 2012 Visual Novel
- Kammersänger, a German honorary title for a distinguished opera singer
- Kaplan–Sheinwold, a contract bridge bidding system
- Key Stage, a term used in the British education system
- Kill stealing, a practice in online games
- King's Scholar, at a UK public school
- King's Serjeant, an obsolete UK legal post
- Kirk/Spock or K/S, slash fiction
- Kashmiri Wikipedia, Wikipedia in Kashmiri-language
- Strikeouts, in baseball
- Contracts, in legal shorthand
- Slovak koruna, the currency of Slovakia 1993–2008 and of the 1939–1945 Slovak State
- Ketfom elshemy, this is the adjective of balls in Egyptian culture.
See also
edit- K+S, a German chemical company