SPS may refer to:

Law and government

  • Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures of the WTO
  • NATO Science for Peace and Security
  • Single Payment Scheme, an EU agricultural subsidy
  • The Standard Procurement System, for the US Department of Defense
  • Somali Postal Service
  • Staff and Personnel Support Branch, part of the British Army Adjutant General's Corps
  • Unofficial ship prefix for Spanish naval warships (Spanish Ship)

Police and prisons

  • Saskatoon Police Service, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
  • Scottish Prison Service
  • Singapore Prison Service, a government agency of the Government of Singapore under the hierarchy of the Ministry of Home Affairs
  • Station police sergeant or station sergeant, former UK police rank
  • State Police Services (India)
  • Surrey Police Service, British Columbia, Canada

Organisations

  • Sahara Press Service, of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
  • Sierra Peaks Section
  • SPS Commerce
  • SPS Technologies, Inc., acquired by Precision Castparts Corp.
  • Sussex Piscatorial Society, a fishing club in the UK
  • Swiss Society of Proteomics, of Life Sciences Switzerland

Education

  • New York University School of Professional Studies
  • Sadiq Public School, a school in Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan
  • Saint Paul Seminary, a Catholic seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota, US
  • Social and Political Sciences, of the University of Cambridge, UK
  • Society of Physics Students
  • Springfield Public Schools (Missouri), school district, US
  • St. Patrick's Higher Secondary School, Asansol, India
  • St. Paul's School (disambiguation), various schools
  • Stromness Primary School, a primary school in Stromness, Orkney

Political parties

  • Socialist Party of Serbia (Socijalistička partija Srbije), a political party in Serbia
  • Union of Right Forces (Soyuz Pravykh Sil), a former political party in Russia
  • Soy Porque Somos, Colombian left-wing political movement founded in 2021

Religion

  • Saint Patrick’s Society for the Foreign Missions, Ireland, post-nominal
  • Society for Pentecostal Studies

Science and technology

  • Sodium polyanethol sulfonate, an anticoagulant used in blood culture media
  • Solanapyrone synthase, an enzyme
  • Spark plasma sintering
  • Special weather statement, US
  • Stand-alone power system, an off-the-grid electricity system
  • Standard positioning service, a Global Positioning System feature
  • Sucrose-phosphate synthase, a plant enzyme involved in sucrose biosynthesis
  • Super Proton Synchrotron, a particle accelerator at CERN
  • Samples per second

Computing

  • Shell Processing Support, a file format for seismic data
  • IBM 1401 Symbolic Programming System and IBM 1620/1710 Symbolic Programming System, assemblers

Medicine and psychology

  • Sensory processing sensitivity, the defining personality trait of Highly Sensitive Persons (HSPs)
  • Serrated polyposis syndrome, a disorder characterized by the appearance of serrated polyps in the colon
  • Sterile processing service
  • Stiff-person syndrome, a rare neurologic disorder
  • Syntactic positive shift, a peak in brain activity

Military and space

  • Service propulsion system in the Apollo service module
  • Solar power satellite, to beam power to Earth
  • Side protection system or torpedo belt of a warship
  • SR-1 Vektor (Samozaryadnyj Pistolet Serdjukova – Serdyukov Self-loading pistol)

Transportation

  • Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway, a defunct railroad in the United States
  • Wichita Falls Municipal Airport (IATA airport code)

Other uses

  • Abbreviation of San Pedro Sula, second largest city in Honduras.
  • Sony Imaging Pro Support, for photographers
  • SPS (Mongolia), a TV channel
  • Sam Petrevski-Seton, an Australian rules footballer
  • "S.P.S.", a song by Kasabian from the album 48:13

See also

  • SPs
  • SPSS
  • SP (disambiguation)