CS

CS, C-S, C.S., Cs, cs, or cs. may refer to:

Job titles

• Chief Secretary (Hong Kong)
• Chief superintendent, a rank in the British and several other police forces
• Company secretary, a senior position in a private sector company or public sector organisation
• Culinary Specialist, a US Navy occupational rating

Language

• Czech language (ISO 639-1 language code)
• Hungarian cs, a digraph in the Hungarian alphabet

Organizations

• Christian Social Party (Austria), a major conservative political party in the Cisleithania, part of Austria-Hungary, and in the First Republic of Austria
• Citizens (Spanish political party), a post-nationalist political party in Spain
• Congregation of the Missionaries of St. Charles, a Catholic religious congregation, also called Scalabrinians
• Confederate States of America, an unrecognized confederation of secessionist North American slave states existing from 1861 to 1865

Companies

• Colorado & Southern Railway, a railroad company in the western United States
• Comlux Aruba NV (IATA airline code: CS)
• Connecting Stockholm, future train operator in Sweden
• Copenhagen Suborbitals, a Danish non-profit rocket group working on the HEAT1X-TYCHO BRAHE rocket
• CouchSurfing, a hospitality service
• Credit Suisse, a Swiss financial services company
• Comp-Sultants, a defunct microcomputer company
• CS Wind, a South Korea-based manufacturer of wind turbine towers

Places

• Cannon Street station, London, UK, abbreviated CS in UK railway slang
• Czechoslovakia (former ISO 3166-1 country code)
• Serbia and Montenegro (former ISO 3166-1 country code)
• Circuito Sur, national highway of Cuba

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

• Caesarean section, a surgical procedure to deliver one or more babies, or, rarely, to remove a dead fetus
• Cardiogenic shock, a medical emergency where heart fails to pump properly to push blood forward.
• Carotid sinus, a dilated area at the base of the internal carotid artery.
• Cockayne syndrome, a rare autosomal recessive, congenital disorder
• Conditioned stimulus, in the psychological procedure of classical conditioning
• Corticosteroids, a class of hormones produced in vertebrates, and their synthetic analogues
• Cowden syndrome, a rare autosomal dominant inherited disorder
• (-)-camphene synthase, an enzyme
• CS (gene), which encodes the enzyme citrate synthase

Chemistry

• Caesium or Cesium, symbol Cs, a chemical symbol
• Carbon monosulfide, chemical formula CS

Computing

• Computer science, the scientific and practical approach to computation and its applications
• CS register, or code segment register, in X86 computer architecture
• Cable select, an ATA device setting for automatic master/slave configuration
• Checkstyle, a Java static code analysis tool
• Chip select, a control line in digital electronics
• ChanServ, an IRC network service
• Construction Set, a program for creating or editing PC games (i.e. The Elder Scrolls Construction Set)
• Adobe Creative Suite, a design and development software suite by Adobe Systems
• C#, a general-purpose, multi-paradigm programming language.

Mathematics

• cs (elliptic function), one of Jacobi's elliptic functions

Other uses in science and technology

• Carbon steel
• Cirrostratus cloud
• Citizen science
• Compressed sensing, a signal processing technique for reconstructing a signal using underdetermined linear systems
• Control segment, part of the structure of the Global Positioning System
• Counter-scanning, a scanning method that allows correcting raster distortions
• cS, another form for cSt, for centistokes, a unit of viscosity

Law enforcement

• CS gas, a riot control agent

Other uses

• Controlled substance, generally a drug or chemical whose manufacture, possession, or use is regulated by a government
• Cable Ship, in civilian ship names
• Calgary Stampede, a rodeo
• Caught stealing, a statistic in baseball
• Chhatrapati Shivaji, c. 1627/1630 – 1680), Indian warrior king and member of the Bhonsle Maratha clan
• Christian Science, a religion
• Cities: Skylines, 2015 city-building simulation video game
• Coke Studio (disambiguation), several musical television shows
• Counter-Strike, a series of video game first released as a 1999 modification for Half-Life
• Cum Suis (Latin: "and associates"); see List of Latin phrases
• Customer service, the provision of service to customers before, during and after a purchase and sale
• Bombardier-Airbus C-Series, small jetliner
• Ferrari 360 Challenge Stradale
• A US Navy hull classification symbol: Scout cruiser (CS)
• Post-nominal letters for the Missionaries of St. Charles Borromeo (Scalabrinians), a Catholic religious congregation

See also

• C's (disambiguation)
• C/s (disambiguation)