PLS

PLS or Pls may refer to:

Organizations

• Partito Liberale Svizzero (Italian for Liberal Party of Switzerland)
• Pioneer Library System, libraries operating in several counties in Oklahoma
• Poculi Ludique Societas, Medieval & Renaissance Players of Toronto
• Polska Liga Siatkówki (English: Polish Volleyball League)
• Princeton Law School, a department of Princeton University from 1847 until 1852
• Premier League Soccer, an Indian football league competition based in West Bengal
• Prometheus Light and Sound, a company developing home PBX systems with integrated mobile phone access in the early 1990s

Science and technology

• Palomar–Leiden survey, an astronomical survey of minor planets in the Solar System
• Partial least squares regression, a statistical method (also known as "projection to latent structures")
• Partial least squares path modeling, a statistical method for structural equation modeling
• Pregnant leach solution, a mining process

Computers

• PLS (complexity), a complexity class
• PLS (file format), multimedia playlist format
• An SMS language abbreviation for "please"
• Pronunciation Lexicon Specification, W3C specification of pronunciation information for both speech recognition and speech synthesis engines
• Super PLS, a form of IPS panel developed by Samsung
• IBM PL/S, a programming language

Medicine and biology

• Papillon–Lefèvre syndrome, a disease affecting the teeth and skin
• Phantom limb syndrome, the sensation that an amputated or missing body part is still attached to the body and is moving appropriately with other body parts
• Primary lateral sclerosis, a rare neuromuscular disease characterized by progressive muscle weakness in the voluntary muscles
• Proteus-like syndrome, a condition similar to Proteus syndrome, but with an uncertain etiology
• Potocki-Lupski syndrome, symptoms include mild mental retardation, autism, and other disorders
• Polish Lowland Sheepdog, a medium-sized, shaggy-coated, sheep dog breed native to Poland

Transportation

• Palletized load system, U.S. Army wheeled vehicle designed to pick up standard 20-ft MILVAN by itself with Crane Handling Unit
• PLS, the IATA airport code for Providenciales International Airport in the Turks and Caicos Islands
• PLS, the National Rail station code for Pleasington railway station, England

Land surveying

• Public Land Survey System, the method used historically over the largest fraction of the United States to survey and spatially identify land parcels
• Professional Land Surveyor