SS is an abbreviation for Schutzstaffel (Protection Squadron), a paramilitary organisation in Nazi Germany.

SS, Ss, or similar may also refer to:

Places

  • American Samoa, former two-letter NATO code
  • Guangdong Experimental High School (Sheng Shi or Saang Sat), China
  • Province of Sassari, Italy (vehicle plate code)
  • South Sudan (ISO 3166-1 code SS)
  • SS postcode area, UK, around Southend-on-Sea
  • San Sebastián, Spanish city

Arts, entertainment, and media

  • SS (band), an early Japanese hardcore punk band
  • SS (manga), a Japanese comic 2000-2003
  • SS Entertainment, a Korean entertainment company
  • S.S., for Sosthenes Smith, H. G. Wells' pseudonym for the story A Vision of the Past
  • SS, the production code for the 1968 Doctor Who serial The Wheel in Space
  • SS, song by Ken Carson

Language

  • Ss (digraph) used in Pinyin
  • ß or ss, a German-language ligature
  • switch-reference in linguistics
  • Scilicet, used as a section sign
  • (in the strict sense) in Latin
  • Swazi language (ISO 639-1 code "ss")

Science and technology

  • Stainless steel, sometimes marked SS
  • Suspended solids and settleable solids, in water

Biology and medicine

  • (+)-sabinene synthase, an enzyme
  • Serotonin syndrome, due to some serotonergic medications
  • Sjögren's syndrome, an autoimmune disease
  • Sweet's syndrome or acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis

Computing

  • .ss, top-level domain country code for South Sudan
  • Screenshot, digital image showing contents of a computer display
  • Slave select line on a computer data bus
  • SS register in x86 processor
  • Super speed USB, or USB 3.0
  • ss, in the Unix iproute2 collection
  • Sega Saturn; the abbreviation predominantly used in Japan

Meteorology

  • Subtropical storm, a category of subtropical cyclone.

Sports

  • Sareen Sports Industries, India
  • Shortstop, a fielding position in baseball and softball
  • Special stage (rallying)
  • Strong safety, a position in American and Canadian football
  • Sunday Silence, an American racehorse

Transportation

  • Corsair International (IATA airline code SS)
  • Maatschappij tot Exploitatie van Staatsspoorwegen, a Dutch railroad
  • Sand Springs Railway in Oklahoma, US, reporting mark
  • Staatsspoorwegen, a Dutch East Indies railroad
  • Stockholms Spårvägar (1915), a historic Swedish tram operator
  • Stockholms Spårvägar, a Swedish tram operator

Ships

  • Screw steamer, a ship prefix for steamboats and steamships
  • Submarine, by US Navy hull classification

Vehicles

  • Chevrolet SS, a sports sedan
  • Chevrolet SS (concept car), a concept car
  • SS Cars Ltd, Jaguar from 1945
  • SS class blimp, for anti-submarine warfare
  • Super Sport (Chevrolet), performance option
  • SS (New York City Subway service), a former designation for the shuttles of the New York City Subway
  • Eagle SS, a kit car

Other uses

  • Collar of Esses, a form of livery collar formerly known as a "Collar of SS"
  • Safety stock, hedge against stockouts
  • Social security
  • Sea Scout
  • Sanctioned Suicide, an internet forum for suicide discussion and encouragement
  • Society of the Priests of Saint Sulpice, post-nominal
  • United States Secret Service (founded in 1865)
  • Waffen-SS, a combat unit (1933–1945) related to the Schutzstaffel
  • Shiv Sena, a political party in India
  • Saints
  • S.S. Kresge Corporation, now known as Kmart, the first Big Box Store.

See also

  • "Double S", a 1978 song by Bill Anderson and Buddy Killen
  • S/S (disambiguation)
  • SS1 (disambiguation)
  • SSS (disambiguation)