KS

KS and variants may refer to:

Businesses and organizations

• Kampfschwimmer, a German postwar commando frogman force
• Kommandittselskap, a Norwegian type of company
• Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities
• PenAir, Peninsula Airways, Anchorage, Alaska, US (IATA airline code)

Language

• Kashmiri language, a Dardic language of Kashmir (ISO 639 alpha-2 language code "ks")
• Kernowek Standard, an orthography for Revived Cornish
• Kiasu, Hokkien (a Chinese spoken variant) word for 'extreme fear of losing' (怕输)

Places

• Kansas (US postal abbreviation KS)
• Krems an der Donau, Austria (vehicle plate code)
• Kassel, Germany (vehicle plate code)
• Khatumo State, an unrecognised proto-state in northern Somalia
• Northampton, Great Britain (vehicle plate code)
• Košice-okolie District, Slovaki (vehicle plate code)

Science, technology, and mathematics

• Kaposi's sarcoma, a tumor caused by Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV8)
• Kartagener syndrome, a genetic disorder
• Keratan sulfate, any of several sulfated glycosaminoglycans
• Kernel streaming, a method of processing streamed data
• Ketoacyl synthase, a domain of polyketide synthases with a thiol group on a cysteine side-chain
• kilosample (kS), 1000 samples of a digitized signal
• Kilosecond (ks), 1000 seconds (16 minutes, 40 seconds)
• Klinefelter's Syndrome, caused by a chromosome aneuploidy
• Kolmogorov–Smirnov test, a goodness-of-fit test for probability distributions

Other uses

• Kammersänger, a German honorary title for a distinguished opera singer
• Kaplan–Sheinwold, a contract bridge bidding system
• Key Stage, a term used in the British education system
• Kill stealing, a practice in online games
• King's Scholar, at a UK public school
• King's Serjeant, an obsolete UK legal post
• Kirk/Spock or K/S, slash fiction
• Strikeouts, in baseball
• Contracts, in legal shorthand