PTS explained

PTS or Pts may refer to:

Businesses and organisations

Businesses

• Pacific Telemanagement Services, an American payphone operator
• Public Television Service, public broadcaster in Taiwan
• Swedish Post and Telecom Authority (Swedish: Post- och telestyrelsen, PTS)

Politics

• São Toméan Workers Party (Portuguese: Partido Trabalhista Santomense, PTS)
• Socialist Workers' Party (Argentina) (Spanish: Partido de los Trabajadores Socialistas, PTS)

Schools and colleges

• Palmer Trinity School, Palmetto Bay, Florida, U.S.
• Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, Pennsylvania, U.S.
• Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.

Other organisations

• Pali Text Society, British text publication society
• Kind Space (formerly Pink Triangle Services), an LGBT community centre in Ottawa, Canada
• Protestant Truth Society, a British religious organisation

Science, technology and mathematics

Biology and medicine

Biochemistry

• PTS (gene), 6-pyruvoyltetrahydropterin synthase, a human gene
• Peroxisomal targeting signal, in protein targeting
• PEP group translocation, or phosphotransferase system, in bacterial sugar uptake

Medical conditions

• Parsonage–Turner syndrome, pain and/or atrophy in the shoulder and upper arm
• Post-thrombotic syndrome, a long-term effect of deep vein thrombosis
• Post-traumatic stress

Computing

• Pay to surf, an early internet business model
• Phoronix Test Suite, benchmark software
• Presentation time stamp, metadata in MPEG video or other streams
• Pseudoterminal slave
• Public test server, a game server for early new content

Mathematics

• Pure type system, in logic

Transport and vehicles

• PTS (amphibious vehicle), a Soviet tank
• Personal Track Safety, British rail work practices

Other uses

• PTS, abbreviation for a points decision in combat sports
• Pts or ₧, Peseta (disambiguation), a number of currencies
• pts, abbreviation for the plural of pint, a unit of capacity
• Potential trouble source, in Scientology

See also

• Point (typography)