SPS

The abbreviation SPS stands for items in the following categories:

City

• San Pedro Sula

Computer and gaming hardware and software

• Shell Processing Support; a standard file format to exchange Seismic data
• Simple, Powerful Statistics; a computer program for using Rodger's method
• Site Preview System; a content bundling and scheduling system for the Drupal website content management system
• Symbolic Programming System; a code assembler developed by IBM

Educational, scholarly, and professional institutions

• St Paul's School, London
• St. Paul's School (Concord, New Hampshire), a boarding school in the United States
• St. Patrick's School, Asansol, an old school in Asansol, India
• Sigma Pi Sigma, an honor society in the United States
• Social and Political Sciences, of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom
• Society for Pentecostal Studies, an association of biblical scholars
• Society of Physics Students, an international professional association
• Swiss Society of Proteomics, see Life Sciences Switzerland
• Software Preservation Society, a society dedicated to preserving obsolete software
• Seattle Public Schools, the school district serving the city of Seattle

Medicine and psychology

• P600/SPS (short for syntactic positive shift), an event-related potential in brain imaging
• Sensory processing sensitivity, a defining psychological trait of Highly Sensitive Persons, characterized by increased depth of processing of sensory input
• Stiff person syndrome, a rare neurologic disorder
• Sodium polyanethol sulfonate.

Politics, treaties, political parties, and government uses

• NATO Science for Peace and Security, a NATO programme
• Socialist Party of Serbia (Socijalistička partija Srbije), a political party in Serbia
• Union of Right Forces (Soyuz Pravykh Sil), a former political party in Russia
• Sahara Press Service, the press agency of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
• Single Payment Scheme, a European Union Common Agricultural Policy subsidy payment system
• Scottish Prison Service
• Singapore Prison Service
• Somali Postal Service
• State Police Services, number of police services in India
• Sanitary and Phytosanitary Agreement, an international treaty of the World Trade Organization
• The Standard Procurement System for the US Department of Defense
• Staff and Personnel Support Branch of the British Army Adjutant General's Corps

Science and engineering

• Samples per second, the sampling rate in converting a continuous signal to a discrete one
• Service propulsion system, the rocket engine on the United States Apollo Program Service Module
• Side protection system, another term for a torpedo belt, a part of armoured warship design
• Small polyp stony, term for a class of Scleractinia corals
• Solanapyrone synthase, an alternative name for the enzyme Prosolanapyrone-III cycloisomerase
• Solar power satellite, an orbital satellite designed to beam solar power down to Earth
• Spark plasma sintering, a sintering technique
• SAME code SPS, used for weather statement and alerts
• Stand-alone power system (SPS or SAPS)
• Standard positioning service, a GPS feature
• Strobes per second, a metric in the machine vision lights industry
• Super Proton Synchrotron, a particle accelerator at CERN
• Shore Power System, a system whereby ships in port connect to a shore electricity supply. This aims to reduce atmospheric pollution caused by exhaust from the ship's diesel generators. This is also known as AMP (Alternative Marine Power)

Other uses

• Wichita Falls Municipal Airport (IATA airport code)
• Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway, a defunct railroad in the United States
• Station police sergeant, or station sergeant, a defunct British police rank
• Sussex Piscatorial Society, a fishing club in the United Kingdom
• St. Patrick's Missionary Society, a society of missionary secular priests of Ireland (or S.P.S.)
• Sony Imaging Pro Support, a service program for Sony professional photographers
• Digimon, a Japanese anime broadcast by Network 21.
• Sunday PinaSaya, a Philippine noontime comedy-variety show broadcast by GMA Network