ADS or Ads may refer to:

  • Advertising

Arts and entertainment

  • ADS (TV station), Adelaide, South Australia
  • "Aiming Down Sights", video game term

Aviation

  • ADS, U.S. Navy air defense ship, an anti-aircraft ship; see List of hull classifications
  • Air Defence Ship, Indian aircraft carrier designation
  • Air defence system, anti-aircraft weapon
  • Automatic dependent surveillance for tracking aircraft
  • IATA airport code for Addison Airport in State of Texas, USA

Science and technology

Computing

  • Advanced Design System, electronic design automation software
  • Alternate data stream in Microsoft NTFS
  • Automated decision support, rule-based systems for management

Military use

  • Active Denial System, US non-lethal weapon
  • ADS amphibious rifle

Other uses in science and technology

  • Accelerator-driven system, a type of subcritical reactor
  • Adaptive Damping System, Mercedes vehicle suspension
  • Aitken Double Star Catalogue
  • Anti–de Sitter space (AdS), a manifold in mathematics and physics
  • Archaeology Data Service
  • Astrophysics Data System
  • Atmospheric diving suit
  • Automated driving system
  • Autonomous Detection System for biohazards

Other uses

  • Adamorobe Sign Language, Ghana
  • Adelaide Dolphin Sanctuary, a dolphin sanctuary in Adelaide, South Australia
  • ADS Group, a British trade organisation
  • ADS (motorcycle), a Belgian manufacturer
  • Advanced Drainage Systems, a US manufacturer of plastic pipes and other drainage products
  • Alliance Data Systems, NYSE code
  • American depositary share
  • American Dialect Society, a learned society dedicated to languages in the US
  • Apna Dal (Soneylal), an Indian political party
  • Ardrossan Harbour railway station, North Ayrshire, Scotland, station code

See also

  • ADSS (disambiguation)
  • AD (disambiguation)