CLS

CLS may refer to:

Academic fields

• Critical legal studies, a contentious school of legal philosophy, that emerged from Harvard Law School in the 1980s
• Critical language studies - the study of language that evolved into critical discourse analysis
• In statistics, the constrained least square estimator when doing linear regression

Educational institutions

• City of London School, an all-boys school
• Covington Latin School, a high school in Covington, Kentucky
• Center for Language Study, a department at Yale University
• Crystal Lake South High School, a high school in Crystal Lake, Illinois
• CLS Idiomas, Company of Linguistic Services CLS, an exchange students organization in Spain

Academic associations, divisions, programs and facilities

• Chicago Law School at The University of Chicago
• Columbia Law School at Columbia University
• Cornell Law School at Cornell University
• Coalition of Latino and Latina Scholars at Teachers College, Columbia University
• Canadian Light Source - a synchrotron research facility located at the University of Saskatchewan, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Societies and associations

• Chicago Linguistic Society
• Christian Legal Society

Software & Technology

• Common Language Specification an open specification developed by Microsoft that describes the executable code and runtime environment
• cls (command) is a command in some operating systems, including MS-DOS, and programming languages, such as BASIC, that clears the screen
• Call logging system, a transaction logging system or interface
• Cable landing station, the point at which a submarine cable comes ashore
• Continuous Local Search, a functional complexity class.

Occupational terms

• Clinical laboratory scientist, another term for medical technologist, a type of healthcare professional
• Combat lifesaver, non-medical or non 68W(Medic) trained personnel trained to assist US Military Occupational Specialty 68W (Medic) during combat situations

Music

• CLS Records, a record label
• Cory Lee Senn, rapper, leader of The M.O.B.

Medicine

• Coffin-Lowry syndrome, a genetic disorder associated with mental retardation
• Clinical laboratory scientist, another term for a medical technologist, a type of healthcare professional

Aerospace

• Capsule launch system for space capsules

Business and finance

• Continuous linked settlement, a financial clearing system
• Celestica (New York Stock Exhchange symbol: CLS)
• Co-operative Legal Services Ltd.
• CLS Communication, a global language translation services provider.

Politics

• The Communist League of Struggle, a small Trotskyist political party in the United States which existed from 1931 to 1937

Miscellaneous products

• The Mercedes-Benz CLS-Class, a series of automobile models
• Nikon's Creative Lighting System, a complete lighting solution for Nikon's camera bodies and external light units

Other

• Cls., abbreviation for close, a type of road