SPS explained

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

Police and prisons

• 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
• Saskatoon Police Service, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

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

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

• Solanapyrone synthase, an enzyme
• Sucrose-phosphate synthase, a plant enzyme involved in sucrose biosynthesis
• 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
• Super Proton Synchrotron, a particle accelerator at CERN

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)
• 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

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

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

See also

• SPs
• SPSS
• SP (disambiguation)