From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

STS is a three-letter abbreviation which may refer to:

Science, medicine, meteorology and technology

• Science and technology studies
• Socio-technical systems
• Severe tropical storm (STS)
• Scanning tunneling spectroscopy, a spectroscopy technique based on Scanning Tunneling Microscope
• Sequence-tagged site, a gene-reference in genomics
• Space Transportation System, the official name of NASA's Space Shuttle program
• Semipalatinsk Test Site, the primary test site for Soviet nuclear weapons
• Intel Science Talent Search, a research-based science competition
• Space Tourism Society, a society focused on space tourism
• Ship-to-ship transfer, an operation where cargo is transferred between seagoing ships
• Ship-to-shore crane, another term for a Container crane
• Steroid Sulfatase, an enzyme
• Staurosporine, an antibiotic
• Serologic Tests for Syphilis, an umbrella term for diagnostic blood tests for syphilis

Computing

• State transition system, an abstract machine used in the study of computation
• Station-to-Station protocol, a cryptographic key agreement scheme that provides mutual authentication
• Synergy Teleconferencing System, a computer bulletin board operating system
• SharePoint, originally known as SharePoint Team Services
• Microsoft Live Labs Security Token Service, a gateway to handle claims within Microsoft's Identity Metasystem
• Strict Transport Security (STS)

Communications

• Serviciul de Telecomunicaţii Speciale, the Romanian Special Telecommunication Service
• STS Relay, the speech to speech relay service available via 711 in the United States
• STS (TV channel), a Russian TV channel
• STS, a Synchronous Transport Signal, part of the Synchronous optical networking communications system

Culture

• Satanas, a Filipino-American gang
• Stepover Toehold Sleeper, a submission hold used in professional wrestling
• Sing the Sorrow, an album by AFI
• Swallow the Sun, a Finnish death metal band

Societies, organisations and companies

• Sheboygan Transit System, a public bus system run by the city of Sheboygan, Wisconsin
• Siemens Transportation Systems, the transportation business unit of Siemens AG
• Scottish Tartans Society, a defunct Scottish society devoted to tartan
• Society of the Holy Trinity (Societas Trinitatis Sanctae - STS), Lutheran ministerium

Other uses

• Cadillac STS, a luxury car sold by Cadillac
• Saints, the plural of Saint, for example: Sts. Peter and Paul
• STS, the IATA airport code for Charles M. Schulz - Sonoma County Airport
• Susquehannock Trail System, in northcentral Pennsylvania
• Strathcona-Tweedsmuir School, a private school in Alberta
• Satellite Transit System, the underground people mover in Seattle-Tacoma International Airport

This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.

Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

English

Initialism

STS

1. Space Transportation System - a space shuttle program run by NASA.

Translations

• Russian: МТКК ru(ru)

See also

• Space Shuttle

Anagrams

• Anagrams of sst
• TSS