SDS

SDS may stand for:

Science

• Safety data sheet or material safety data sheet, a form with data regarding the properties of a particular substance
• Satellite Data System, a system of United States military communications satellites.
• Sodium dodecyl sulfate or sodium lauryl sulfate, an anionic surfactant used in many cleaning and hygiene products
  • SDS-PAGE, a protein separation technique that uses sodium dodecyl sulfate

Politics

• Sayuz na Demokratichnite Sili, a political party in Bulgaria, founded in 1989 in opposition to the communist government
• Slovenska demokratska stranka, a Slovenian center-right liberal conservative party, formerly the Social Democratic Party of Slovenia
• Sozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund, an organisation in the Außerparlamentarische Opposition in West Germany in the 1960s
• Srpska Demokratska Stranka, several political parties in parts of former Yugoslavia
  • Serbian Democratic Party (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
  • Serb Democratic Party (Croatia)
  • Serbian Democratic Party (Serbia)
• Students for a Democratic Society, a student activist movement in the United States in the 1960s
• Students for a Democratic Society (2006 organization), a United States student organization representing left wing beliefs
• Society for Disability Studies, a transnational academic network of disability studies practitioners
• Spatial Development Strategy, also known as "The London Plan", a planning document written by the Mayor of London

Other

• Society of the Divine Savior, a Catholic order founded in 1881
• Samsung SDS, a subsidiary of the Samsung Group, formerly Samsung Data Systems
• Scientific Data Systems, a 1960s computer manufacturer later bought by Xerox
• Self-Directed Search, a career interest test
• The ISO 639-3 language code for the Sened language
• Service Development Studio, a tool for creating IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) applications
• Seven deadly sins, a classification of objectionable vices
• Short Data Services, a service of Terrestrial Trunked Radio two-way radios similar to SMS text messages
• Shwachman–Diamond syndrome, a rare genetic disorder chiefly affecting the blood and pancreas
• Social and Decision Sciences, a department within Carnegie Mellon University
• Software Defined Silicon, computer chip technology created by XMOS of Bristol, UK
• Spartanburg Day School, a private K-12 school in Spartanburg, South Carolina
• Special Delivery Service, the fictional employer of Postman Pat in the British animated television series
• Special Demonstration Squad, A branch of Greater London's Metropolitan Police Service
• Special Direct System, a drill bit fixing system
• Srpska Državna Straža or Serbian State Guard, forces that were used to complement the civil police in Serbia from 1942 to 1944
• Sun Java System Directory Server in IT, nicknamed Sun Directory Server, an LDAP server from Sun.