STS

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STS is a three-letter abbreviation which may refer to:

Contents 1 Science and technology 2 Music 3 Computing 4 Communications 5 Culture 6 Companies 7 Other uses

[edit] Science and technology

• Science and technology studies
• Socio-technical systems
• Scanning tunneling spectroscopy, a microscope technique
• Sequence-tagged site, a gene-reference in genomics
• Space Transportation System, the official name of the Space Shuttle program
• Semipalatinsk Test Site, the primary test site for Soviet nuclear weapons
• Intel Science Talent Search, a research-based science competition
• Space Tourism Society, a society focused on space tourism
• Ship-to-ship transfer, an operation where cargo is transferred between seagoing ships
• Ship-to-shore crane, another term for a Container crane
• STeroid Sulfatase, an enzyme
• Short-term business statistics like monthly industrial turnover.

[edit] Music

• Swallow the Sun, a Finnish Doom/Death Metal band.

[edit] Computing

• State transition system, an abstract machine used in the study of computation
• Station-to-Station protocol, a cryptographic key agreement scheme that provides mutual authentication
• Synergy Teleconferencing System, a computer bulletin board operating system
• SharePoint, originally known as SharePoint Team Services
• Microsoft Live Labs Security Token Service, a gateway to handle claims within Microsoft's Identity Metasystem

[edit] Communications

• Serviciul de Telecomunicaţii Speciale, the Romanian Special Telecommunication Service
• STS Relay, the speech to speech relay service available via 711 in the United States
• STS (Russian television network), a Russian TV channel
• STS, a Synchronous Transport Signal, part of the Synchronous optical networking communications system

[edit] Culture

• Satanas, a Filipino-American gang
• Stepover Toehold Sleeper, a submission hold used in professional wrestling
• Saints, the plural of Saint, for example: Sts. Peter and Paul
• Sing the Sorrow, an album by AFI

[edit] Companies

• Siemens Transportation Systems, the transportation business unit of Siemens AG
• Sheboygan Transit System, a public bus system run by the city of Sheboygan, Wisconsin

[edit] Other uses

• Cadillac STS, a luxury car sold by Cadillac
• STS, the IATA airport code for Charles M. Schulz - Sonoma County Airport
• Strathcona-Tweedsmuir School, a private school in Alberta
• Student Travel Schools, a non-profit organization managing student exchanges
• Society of the Holy Trinity (Societas Trinitatis Sanctae - STS), Lutheran ministerium