CTS

CTS is an initialism for any of the following:

Television

• Chinese Television System, a Taiwanese broadcast television station.
  • CTS Main Channel (Chinese: 華視主頻)
  • CTS Education and Culture (Chinese: 華視教育文化頻道) (on analog and digital)
  • CTS Recreation (Chinese: 華視休閒頻道) (on analog and digital)
  • CTS News (Chinese: 華視新聞頻道) (on Chunghwa Telecom MOD only)
• In Canada, it is the abbreviation for the Crossroads Television System, and is their on-air branding
• The Catherine Tate Show, a British television program.
• In Korea, the Christian Television System

General

• Cadillac CTS, a luxury automobile by Cadillac
• Cattle Tracing System, administered by the British Cattle Movement Service part of the Rural Payments Agency
• Car Top Systems, an automotive supplier for convertible tops
• Cardboard Tube Samurai, a recurring character in the Penny Arcade webcomic
• The Catholic Truth Society, an organisation producing Catholic literature
• China Travel Service, the tourism and travel agency of the Chinese government
• Cognizant Technology Solutions, a US IT-Services company
• Conflict Tactics Scale, a social survey instrument on conflict in relationships
• CTS is the ICAO airline designator for Centre-South Limited, Russian Federation
• New Chitose Airport in the IATA airport code
• Community Treatment Solutions, a South Jersey non-profit therapy organization
• Certified Temporary Staffing Specialist (a designation from the National Association of Personnel Consultants)
• Certified Technology Specialist (Infocomm International Audio Visual Certification)
• Copper Tube Size

Defense

• Combat Zones That See, a DARPA project
• Cosmic Top Secret, the highest of 4 levels for NATO classified information

Education

• One of a number of theological seminaries, including:
  • United Church of Christ related Chicago Theological Seminary in Chicago, Illinois;
  • Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) related Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis, Indiana;
  • Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod related Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, Indiana
  • Presbyterian Church (USA) related Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia
• College of Technological Sciences-Cebu, a small educational institution located at Cebu City, Philippines
• Calcutta Technical School, a technical school in Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Medicine

• Carpal tunnel syndrome, a medical condition causing pain in parts of the hand
• Cracked tooth syndrome, a medical condition in which a posterior tooth has developed a crack
• Cubital tunnel syndrome, compression of the ulnar nerve at the elbow
• Cathepsin, a class of enzymes
• Cardiothoracic surgery, a field of medicine involved in surgical treatment of diseases affecting organs inside the thorax (the chest).

Technology

• Card Translator System formerly used in Direct distance dialing
• Ciphertext stealing in cryptography
• Clear to Send control signal:
  • "Clear to Send" frame in the IEEE 802.11 RTS/CTS mechanism
  • "Clear to Send" signal in RS-232 communications
• Common Type System, a common set of types in the .NET Framework
• Hermes Communications Technology Satellite, a Canadian experimental communications satellite launched in 1976
• Computational transportation science, an emerging discipline that combines computer science and engineering with the modeling, planning, and economic aspects of transportation
• Common Terminology Services, an HL7 ANSI standard of requirements for interoperability across disparate healthcare applications
• Conversational Timesharing System, an interactive command line interface for the EXEC 8 operating system of UNIVAC 1100 series mainframe computers.