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STS, or sts, may refer to:
Medicine
[edit]- Secondary traumatic stress, a condition which leads to a diminished ability to empathize
 - Sequence-tagged site, a gene-reference in genomics
 - Soft-tissue sarcoma
 - Staurosporine, an antibiotic
 - STS (gene), which codes for steroid sulfatase
 - Superior temporal sulcus
 - Sinus tarsi syndrome, a foot condition
 
Places
[edit]- Semipalatinsk Test Site for Soviet nuclear weapons
 - Staffordshire, county in England, Chapman code
 
Transport
[edit]- Cadillac STS, a luxury car
 - NASA Space Transportation System, the system in which the NASA shuttle is part of and only surviving component of; starting as a 1969 NASA proposal system for reusable space vehicles
- NASA Space Shuttle program, the shuttle program itself, whose mission were referred to with STS-numbering
 
 - Sail training ship, a ship prefix
 - Satellite Transit System, now called the SEA Underground, airport transit in Seattle-Tacoma International Airport
 - Ship-to-ship transfer, between seagoing ships
 - Société de transport de Sherbrooke, a public bus system in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
 - Société de transport du Saguenay, a public bus system in Saguenay, Quebec, Canada
 - STS Group (Dubai), a transportation company for private schools
 - Sonar Technician Submarine, a US Navy rating
 - STS, the IATA airport code for Charles M. Schulz - Sonoma County Airport
 - STS, the National Rail code for Saltash railway station, Cornwall, UK
 
Science and technology
[edit]- Space Tourism Society
 - Scanning tunneling spectroscopy
 - Science and technology studies, a.k.a. science, technology, and society
 - Sociotechnical system
 - Special treatment steel, used by the US Navy c.1910
 - Static transfer switch, a semiconductor switch
 - STS 5 an Australopithecus specimen
 - Suomenkielisten teknikkojen seura, now incorporated into Academic Engineers and Architects in Finland TEK
 
Computing and communications
[edit]- HTTP Strict Transport Security
 - Security token service, a web service
 - Set Transmit State, hex 93 in the C1 set of control codes
 - Spring Tool Suite, IDE for Spring Framework
 - Station-to-Station protocol, a cryptographic key agreement scheme
 - Synergy Teleconferencing System, a PC-based chat server
 - Serviciul de Telecomunicații Speciale, the Romanian special telecommunication service
 - STS Relay, US speech to speech relay service for people with a speech disability
 - STS (TV channel), Russia
 - Synchronous transport signal, in synchronous optical networking
 - Saga Television Station, a Japanese commercial broadcaster
 
Culture
[edit]- Satanas, a Filipino-American gang
 - Stepover toehold sleeper, a wrestling hold
 - S.T.S. (band), an Austropop band
 
Societies, organizations and companies
[edit]- Scottish Tartans Society, a defunct Scottish society
 - Sisu Terminal Systems, a former terminal tractor producer
 - Society of the Holy Trinity (Societas Trinitatis Sanctae – STS), Lutheran ministerium
 - Suomen Työväen Säästöpankki, a defunct Finnish commercial bank
 - Hitachi Rail STS, formerly known as Ansaldo STS, a company specializing in railway signalling and control systems
 
Other uses
[edit]- Saints, the plural of Saint, for example: Sts. Peter and Paul
 - Short-term business statistics
 - Strathcona-Tweedsmuir School, Alberta, Canada
 - Susquehannock Trail System, Pennsylvania, US
 - Science Talent Search, see Regeneron Science Talent Search, formerly Westinghouse Science Talent Search, Intel Science Talent Search