XPS

XPS is a three-letter abbreviation with multiple meanings, as described below:

• X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy XPS, also known as ESCA
• Exopolysaccharide, or extracellular polymeric substance, a sliming substance secreted by bacteria and responsible for cells adhesion onto surfaces and in biofilms
• XML Paper Specification (XPS), a Microsoft royalty-free fixed-layout document format
• XPS Annotator, XPS annotations tool for Microsoft Windows
• The Dell XPS desktop and notebook lines
• Extruded polystyrene
• Hybrid Positioning System
• Xilinx Platform Studio, part of the Embedded Development Kit for Xilinx FPGAs containing embedded processor blocks.