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SS is an abbreviation for Schutzstaffel (Protection Squadron), a paramilitary organisation in Nazi Germany.
SS, Ss, or similar may also refer to:
Places
- American Samoa, former two-letter NATO code
- Guangdong Experimental High School (Sheng Shi or Saang Sat), China
- Province of Sassari, Italy (vehicle plate code)
- South Sudan (ISO 3166-1 code SS)
- SS postcode area, UK, around Southend-on-Sea
- San Sebastián, Spanish city
Arts, entertainment, and media
- SS (band), an early Japanese hardcore punk band
- SS (manga), a Japanese comic 2000-2003
- SS Entertainment, a Korean entertainment company
- S.S., for Sosthenes Smith, H. G. Wells pseudonym for story A Vision of the Past
- SS, the production code for the 1968 Doctor Who serial The Wheel in Space
Language
- Ss (digraph) used in Pinyin
- ß or ss, a German-language ligature
- SS switch-reference in linguistics
- Scilicet, used as a section sign
- sensu stricto (in the strict sense) in Latin
- Swazi language (ISO 639-1 code "ss")
Science and technology
- Stainless steel, sometimes marked SS
- Suspended solids and settleable solids, in water
Biology and medicine
- (+)-sabinene synthase, an enzyme
- Serotonin syndrome, due to some serotonergic medications
- Sjögren's syndrome, an autoimmune disease
- Sweet's syndrome or acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis
Computing
- .ss, top-level domain country code for South Sudan
- Screenshot, digital image showing contents of a computer display
- Slave select line on a computer data bus
- SS register in x86 processor
- Super speed USB, or USB 3.0
- ss, in the Unix iproute2 collection
Sports
- Sareen Sports Industries, India
- Shortstop, a fielding position in baseball and softball
- Special stage (rallying)
- Strong safety, a position in American and Canadian football
Transportation
- Corsair International (IATA airline code SS)
- Maatschappij tot Exploitatie van Staatsspoorwegen, a Dutch railroad
- Sand Springs Railway in Oklahoma, US, reporting mark
- Staatsspoorwegen, a Dutch East Indies railroad
- Stockholms Spårvägar, Swedish transport companies
Ships
Vehicles
- Chevrolet SS, sport sedan
- SS Cars Ltd, Jaguar from 1945
- SS class blimp, for anti-submarine warfare
- Super Sport (Chevrolet), performance option
- SS (New York City Subway service), a former designation for the shuttles of the New York City Subway
Other uses
- Collar of Esses, a form of livery collar formerly known as a "Collar of SS"
- Safety stock, hedge against stockouts
- Social security
- Sea Scout
- Sanctioned Suicide, an internet forum for suicide discussion
- Society of the Priests of Saint Sulpice, post-nominal
- United States Secret Service (founded in 1865)
- Waffen-SS, a combat unit (1933-1945) related to the Schutzstaffel
See also
- "Double S", a 1978 song by Bill Anderson and Buddy Killen
- S/S (disambiguation)
- SS1 (disambiguation)
- SSS (disambiguation)
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