SS (disambiguation)

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SS or Schutzstaffel was a Nazi paramilitary force.

SS may also refer to:

In technology:

• Spread spectrum, technique of widening the frequency band of a signal

In transportation:

• Steamship, a ship powered by steam
• Super Sport, a performance package offered by Chevrolet
• Swallow Sidecar Company, the former name of Jaguar Cars Ltd
• SS Cars Ltd, the forerunner of Jaguar Cars Ltd
• Stockholms Spårvägar, a Swedish streetcar and bus company
• Corsairfly's IATA airline code "SS"
• Sand Springs Railway's reporting mark
• Holden Commodore SS, a high performance version of the Holden Commodore. SS models have a v8 engine.
• Shaoshan, a series of electric locomotives in China

In sports:

• Special stage (rallying), the competitive section in a stage rally event
• Shortstop, a defensive position in baseball
• Strong Safety, a defensive position in American and Canadian football
• Second striker, a forward position in European football

In entertainment:

• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, American title of the first book in the Harry Potter series
  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (film), American title of the film based on the novel
  • Severus Snape, Harry Potter character
• Sonic Syndicate, a Swedish metalcore band
• SS (manga), a Japanese comic produced between 2000 and 2003
• Suicide Silence, an American deathcore band
• Solid Snake, character in the Metal Gear series
• Pokémon SoulSilver, companion game to Pokémon HeartGold, a duo of Pokémon video games for the Nintendo DS.
• Sailor Moon Supers, an arc in the Sailor Moon series.
• Spencer Shay, fictional character in iCarly

Other:

• Social Security
• scilicet, ss. or sc. is a literary and legal document abbreviation of the Latin word scilicet, which means: that is to say, to wit, namely, or more specifically. It is immediately followed by more specific information, such as the county within a state, or a numbered section or line in a book.
• Summer school
• Stainless steel
• SS., an abbreviation for saints - especially used when a specific church or institution is dedicated to two co-equal Saints (for example "SS Peter & Paul")
• sensu stricto, "in the strict sense"
• Slave select, a control line for the Serial Peripheral Interface Bus
• Sweet's syndrome, a condition also known as acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis
• Province of Sassari, an Italian province
• Swati language's ISO 639-1 code
• ß or ss, a German language ligature known as the Eszett
• Simplified spelling
• The (Simplified) Spelling Society
• SummerSlam, an annual World Wrestling Entertainment event
• Sailor Senshi, characters in the Sailor Moon franchise.
• Sailor Saturn, a character in the Sailor Moon franchise.
• Sailor Starlights, characters in the Sailor Moon franchise.
• Souvenir Sheet, in philately
• Sexual selection: In Darwin's theory, natural selection referred to the process by which species evolved on the basis of competition for food; sexual selection, for sex.
• Slightly soluble, the characteristic of a substance that only partially dissolves in a solvent
• An abbreviation for the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society

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