BSS

The acronym BSS can refer to several things:

General

• Bernard-Soulier syndrome – a rare blood disorder
• Baudhayana Shrauta Sutra

Institutions

• The Beaconhouse School System – largest chain of private schools in Asia, located in Pakistan
• Bishop Strachan School – a private girls school located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Bramalea Secondary School a public school in Brampton, Ontario, Canada

Entertainment

• Brave Saint Saturn – a Christian rock band from Denver, Colorado
• Broken Social Scene – a band from Toronto
• Bold Soul Sister – from the Aretha Franklin song
• Brain Salad Surgery – and album by Emerson, Lake and Palmer

Telecommunications

• Base Station Subsystem – an element of GSM mobile telephone networks
• Basic Service Set – the basic building block of IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs (aka Wi-Fi networks)
• Boeing Satellite Systems, now Boeing Satellite Development Center
• Broadcasting Satellite Service – another name for DBS (direct broadcast satellite) satellite television

Computing

• .bss ("Block Started by Symbol"), name of section for uninitialized data used by compilers and linkers
• Business Support Systems, software system which supports business processes → complementary to the Operations Support System

Signal processing

• Blind signal separation – mathematical and statistical techniques allowing (mostly non-parametric) discrimination between different parts composing mixed data sets

Audio technology

• BSS Audio, a British designer and manufacturer of professional audio signal processors.

Other

• Bang senseless – In Drosophila melanogaster, bss is a gene known to cause seizure-like activity.
• Beck Scale for Suicide Ideation (BSS), a psychological test
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