SPS

SPS may refer to:

Organisations

• Swiss Society of Proteomics, see Life Sciences Switzerland
• Sahara Press Service, the press agency of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
• Sierra Peaks Section
• SPS Commerce
• SPS Technologies, Inc., formerly Standard Pressed Steel Company, an early developer of cap-screws and hex keys, acquired by Precision Castparts Corp.
• Sussex Piscatorial Society, a fishing club in the UK

Education

• Sadiq Public School, a school in Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan
• School of Professional Studies, of New York University in New York, U.S.
• Sigma Pi Sigma, an honor society in the US
• Social and Political Sciences, of the University of Cambridge, UK
• Society of Physics Students, an international professional association
• Seattle Public Schools, the school district serving the city of Seattle, Washington, US
• Springfield Public Schools, the school district serving the city of Springfield, Missouri, US
• St. Patrick's Higher Secondary School, a school in Asansol, India
• St. Paul's School (disambiguation), name for various schools around the world

Government

• Scottish Prison Service
• Singapore Prison Service
• Somali Postal Service
• State Police Services (India), a number of police services in India
• Staff and Personnel Support Branch, part of the British Army Adjutant General's Corps

Politics

• Socialist Party of Serbia (Socijalistička partija Srbije), a political party in Serbia
• Union of Right Forces (Soyuz Pravykh Sil), a former political party in Russia

Religion

• Saint Patrick’s Society for the Foreign Missions, a society of missionary secular priests of Ireland
• Society for Pentecostal Studies, an association of biblical scholars

Science and technology

• Samples per second, the sampling rate in converting a continuous signal to a discrete one
• Small polyp stony, term for a class of Scleractinia corals
• Solanapyrone synthase, an enzyme
• Spark plasma sintering, a sintering technique
• Special weather statement, a form of weather advisory
• Stand-alone power system, an off-the-grid electricity system
• Standard positioning service, a Global Positioning System feature
• Super Proton Synchrotron, a particle accelerator at CERN

Computing

• Shell Processing Support, a standard file format to exchange Seismic data
• Simple, Powerful Statistics, a computer program for using Rodger's method
• Site Preview System, a content bundling and scheduling system for the Drupal website content management system
• IBM 1401 Symbolic Programming System, a code assembler
• IBM 1620 and 1710 Symbolic Programming System, an assembly language
• a certificate leading to Scaled Professional Scrum with Nexus

Medicine and psychology

• Sensory processing sensitivity, a defining psychological trait of highly sensitive persons, characterized by increased depth of processing of sensory input
• Stiff person syndrome, a rare neurologic disorder
• Syntactic positive shift, an event-related potential in brain imaging

Military and space

• Service propulsion system, the rocket engine on the US Apollo service module
• Solar power satellite, an orbital satellite designed to beam solar power down to Earth
• Side protection system, another term for a torpedo belt, a part of armoured warship design
• SR-1 Vektor (Samozaryadnyj Pistolet Serdjukova - Serdyukov Self-loading pistol), semi-automatic pistol developed by Piotr Serdyukov

Law and government

• Sanitary and Phytosanitary Agreement, an international treaty of the World Trade Organization
• Single Payment Scheme, a European Union Common Agricultural Policy subsidy payment system
• The Standard Procurement System, for the US Department of Defense
• NATO Science for Peace and Security, a NATO programme
• Station police sergeant, or station sergeant, a defunct British police rank

Transportation

• Wichita Falls Municipal Airport (IATA airport code)
• Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway, a defunct railroad in the United States

Other uses

• San Pedro Sula, a city in Honduras
• SPS (Mongolia), a television channel of the Mongolian National Broadcasting Service
• Sony Imaging Pro Support, a service program for Sony professional photographers
• Sunday PinaSaya, a Philippine comedy-variety show