CCS may refer to:

Business and brands

  • CC's, a corn chip brand
  • CCS.com, a skateboard/snowboard brand and retailer
  • Cross currency swap
  • Circuit City Stores, an American electronics retail company

Computer science

  • Calculus of communicating systems, a modeling approach
  • Coded character set, in which each character corresponds to a unique number
  • Code Composer Studio, an integrated development environment for Texas Instruments processors
  • Common-channel signaling, a method of transmitting control information
  • complete corresponding source, a requirement for GNU General Public Licenses
  • ACM Computing Classification System, for publications
  • CeVIO Creative Studio, a speech and singing synthesis software
  • Conventional Commits Specification

Entertainment

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  • Cardcaptor Sakura, a manga and anime series
  • CCS (band), also known as C.C.S., a British music group

Education

  • Common Core State Standards Initiative, a United States educational standards effort
  • Carroll County Schools, in Mississippi's Carroll County School District
  • Coast Christian Schools, now known as Valor Christian Academy
  • College of Creative Studies, Santa Barbara, California
  • College for Creative Studies, Detroit, Michigan
  • Caroline Chisholm School, England
  • Cowbridge Comprehensive School, Wales
  • Calvary Christian School (Covington, Kentucky)
  • Centre for China Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  • Cornway College a private, co-educational, day and boarding school in Zimbabwe
  • Coventry Christian Schools
  • Community Christian School (disambiguation)
  • Casino Christian School, New South Wales
  • Center for Cartoon Studies, an art institute
  • Columbus Catholic Schools, Marshfield Wisconsin

Energy

  • Carbon capture and storage, a technology used to reduce emissions from facilities such as gas processing plants
  • Copper-clad steel, a type of bimetallic conductor
  • Combined Charging System, a connector standard for fast charging electric vehicles

Gaming

  • Cases Computer Simulations, a video strategy and war game company
  • Candy Crush Saga, a puzzle video game

Organisations

  • Cabinet Committee on Security, in the Cabinet of India
  • Canadian Cancer Society
  • Canadian Cardiovascular Society
  • Casualty Clearing Station, a medical facility operated by British Empire forces during World War I
  • Ceylon Civil Service
  • Centre for Civil Society
  • China Communications Services
  • China Classification Society
  • Combined Chiefs of Staff, the supreme military command for the western Allies during World War II
  • Comparative Cognition Society, a scientific society for the study of animal cognition and comparative psychology
  • Computer Conservation Society
  • Consumers Cooperative Services, a network of New York City consumer cooperatives founded in the 1920s
  • Crippled Children Society, founded in New Zealand in 1935 by Alexander Gillies
  • Crown Commercial Service, an executive agency and trading fund of the Cabinet Office of the UK Government
  • Committee of Concerned Scientists, an organization supporting human rights of scientists around the world

Places

  • Abbreviation for Caracas, Venezuela
  • IATA code for Simón Bolívar International Airport in Caracas, Venezuela
  • Common Central Secretariat, New Delhi, India

Science

  • Cartesian coordinate system, a mathematical system
  • Capsanthin/capsorubin synthase, an enzyme
  • Cellular Confinement Systems (geocells), a honeycombed geosythethetic matrix filled with granular material
  • Chinese Chemical Society (Taipei), a scholarly organization
  • Chinese Chemical Society (Beijing), a scholarly organization
  • Critical community size, a parameter used in vaccination and eradication campaigns
  • Chemical formula for the compound thioxoethenylidene
  • CCS (gene), a copper chaperone for superoxide dismutase
  • Chronic Covid Syndrome, long-term medical symptoms
  • Collision cross-section, a parameter in Ion mobility spectrometry

Sports

  • Canadian Cue Sport Association
  • CC Sabathia (born 1980), American baseball player
  • Cardiff City Stadium, in Wales
  • CIF Central Coast Section, part of the California Interscholastic Federation
  • Championship Cup Series, a motorcycle road racing sanctioning body
  • Capital City Service, a football hooligan gang attached to Hibernian FC
  • Collegiate Conference of the South, a US college sports conference
  • Creamline Cool Smashers, a Filipino professional volleyball team
  • IOC sport code for cross country skiing at the Winter Olympics

Other uses

  • Container closure system, the packaging components for a pharmaceutical dosage
  • Critical code studies
  • CYLD cutaneous syndrome, an inherited, familial disorder involving the development of multiple skin tumors