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PS, ps, and other variants may refer to:

Writing and linguistics [link]

Postscript, writing added after the main body of a letter
Pashto language, ISO 639 alpha-2 language code

Entertainment, music and literature [link]

Priory of Sion (Prieuré de Sion), a French fringe group and its fictitious predecessor and successor organisations
PS Classics, a record label
P.S., a 2004 film
P.S. (A Toad Retrospective), a compilation album of music by Toad the Wet Sprocket
P.S. (album), a compilation album of film music by Goran Bregovic
"PS", 2003 song by The Books from the album The Lemon of Pink

Computers and technology [link]

.ps, the Palestinian Internet domain extension or top-level domain (ccTLD)
ps (Unix), an application that displays statistics on running processes
Parametric Stereo, Audio Object Type defined and used in MPEG-4 Part 3 (MPEG-4 Audio) to further enhance efficiency in low bandwidth stereo media
PostScript, a page description language
Adobe Photoshop, a graphics editor and creator by Adobe
MPEG program stream, an MPEG-2 container format
Windows PowerShell, a Microsoft application

Chemistry [link]

Phosphatidylserine, a phospholipid
Polystyrene, a common type of plastic
Porous silicon
Chloropicrin, a highly toxic chemical compound
Ps, Positronium, pseudo-chemical symbol

Units [link]

Ps, picosecond, an SI unit of time equivalent to 10⁻¹² of a second, standard abbreviation ps (uncapitalized)
PS, the German abbreviation for the word Pferdestärke, meaning horsepower
Peta second, an SI unit of time equivalent to 10¹⁵ seconds
Picosiemens, an SI unit of electric conductance based on the siemens

Transportation [link]

United p.s., a "Premium Service" offered by United Airlines
Paddle steamer, a steamboat or steamship operated by paddle propulsion
Ukraine International Airlines, IATA airline designator
Pacific Southwest Airlines, defunct airline that formerly used the IATA airline designator

Places [link]

Palau, FIPS PUB 10-4 territory code
Palestinian territories, ISO 3166 country code
Proton Synchrotron, a 1959 particle accelerator at CERN

Religion [link]

Ps, for Pastor, a minister in a Pentecostal Christian Church
Ps., abbreviation for Psalms, a book in the Tanakh or Christian Bible

Political parties [link]

Parti Socialiste (disambiguation)
Partido Socialista (disambiguation)
Partito Socialista (disambiguation)
Positive Slovenia
Social Democratic Party (Andorra) Partit Socialdemòcrata
Socialist Party of Albania Partia Socialiste
Socialist Party of Chile Partido Socialista de Chile
Socialist Party of Romania Partidul Socialist [din România]
True Finns Perussuomalaiset

Companies and organizations [link]

Pacific Securities, Kunming, Yunnan
PeopleSoft, an ERP software company
PeopleSupport, a Los Angeles-based business process outsourcing company

Games [link]

Pet Society, internet social game by Playfish
Phantasy Star (series), series of RPG games by SEGA
PlanetSide, a MMOFPS by Sony
PlayStation, a series of video game consoles developed by Sony Computer Entertainment
Pokémon Gold and Silver, a Game Boy Color video game
Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, a Game Boy Advance video game
Pokémon Snap, a Nintendo 64 video game
Pokémon Stadium, a Nintendo 64 video game
Pokémon Stadium 2, a Nintendo 64 video game

Other uses [link]

Public school (government funded), e.g., P.S. 45
Police Sergeant
Pyramid scheme, tricking people into making money for a company/individual through obligations and false pretenses of mutual gain
P.S., a patient with bilateral lesions of the thalamus, one of the first case-studies of autobiographical memory

Medical [link]

Pulmonary stenosis (known also as pulmonic stenosis)

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POS

POS, Pos or PoS may refer to:

Business

Point of sale, location where payment is accepted

Health and medicine

Point of service plan, a type of managed care health insurance plan in the United States

Polycystic ovary syndrome, a disease of the ovaries

Linguistics

Part of speech, the role that a word or phrase plays in a sentence

Sayula Popoluca (ISO 639-3), an indigenous language spoken in Veracruz, Mexico

Poverty of the stimulus, a linguistic term used in language acquisition and development

Music

P.O.S (born 1981), or Stefon Alexander, American hip hop artist

Pain of Salvation, Swedish progressive metal band

Posdnuos (born 1969), or Kelvin Mercer, New York hip-hop artist

Places

Port of Spain, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago

Technology

Software

P/OS, operating system of DEC Professional PCs from Digital Equipment Corporation

Packet over SONET/SDH, a communications protocol for transferring packets over fiber networks

PERQ Operating System, operating system for PERQ workstations

Transportation

Bodhisattva

In Mahayana Buddhism, bodhisattva is the Sanskrit term for anyone who, motivated by great compassion, has generated bodhicitta, which is a spontaneous wish to attain buddhahood for the benefit of all sentient beings. Bodhisattvas are a popular subject in Buddhist art.

Origins and outlines

In early Indian Buddhism, the term bodhisattva was primarily used to refer specifically to Gautama Buddha in his former life. The Jataka tales, which are the stories of the Buddha's lives, depict the various attempts of the bodhisattva to embrace qualities like self-sacrifice and morality.

From this Jataka tales, Bodhisattva originally meant the Buddhism practitioner of austerities that surpassed Śrāvakayana and Pratyekabuddhayana by far and completed Bodhisattvayana. Mount Potalaka, for example, is one of Bodhisattvayana. The name for practitioners who do not yet reach Bodhisattvayana was not fixed, but the terms Śrāvaka-Bodhisattva (聲聞菩薩) or Pratyekabuddha-Bodhisattva (縁覚菩薩) already appear in Āgama which is sutras of early Indian Buddhism.

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