AVS

AVS or Avs may refer to:

Sports

• Colorado Avalanche, a NHL hockey team

Schools

• Abbey Vocational School, a secondary school in County Donegal, Ireland
• Abbotsford Virtual School, a British Columbia Distributed Learning School
• Amman Valley School, a bilingual (Welsh and English) secondary school in Wales

Science

• American Vacuum Society, a member society of the American Institute of Physics
• Angle of Vanishing Stability, the angle at which a boat will capsize

Technology

Audio video

• Audio Video Standard, a Chinese codec
• Audio-video stimulation, a controversial princip of the called psychowalkman

Software

• Advanced Visualization Studio, a music visualization plugin for Winamp
• Active Virus Shield, a discontinued free antivirus utility made available by AOL
• AVS Disc Creator, an optical disc authoring and imaging utility which has both free and comercially licensed versions.
• A group of data visualization applications from AVS, Inc. (Advanced Visual Systems) that includes AVS/Express and its predecessor AVS5. http://avs.com
• Sun StorageTek Availability Suite, a data mirroring system available in OpenSolaris.

Verification systems

• Address Verification System, a security measure in credit card processing. It is the way that the bank verifies that the address provided in an online transaction matches the one registered to the card.
• Adult Verification System, a system used by websites to confirm that someone accessing their site is of the age of majority

Other

• AviSynth, a script-based frameserver

Other uses

• A Vampyre Story, the 2007 Autumn Moon Entertainment adventure game
• Atharvaveda-Shaunakiya, a sacred Hindu text