# AVS

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**AVS** or **Avs** may refer to:

## Label

- [AVS (halal certification)](/source/AVS_(halal_certification)), French non-profit organization that certifies and inspects halal food product

## People

- [AVS (actor)](/source/AVS_(actor)), Indian actor and comedian

## Sports

- [AVS Futebol SAD](/source/AVS_Futebol_SAD), an association football club in Vila das Aves, Portugal
- [Colorado Avalanche](/source/Colorado_Avalanche), an NHL hockey team

## Schools

- [Abbey Vocational School](/source/Abbey_Vocational_School), a secondary school in County Donegal, Ireland
- [Amman Valley School](/source/Amman_Valley_School), a bilingual (Welsh and English) secondary school in Wales

## Science

- [American Vacuum Society](/source/American_Vacuum_Society), a member society of the American Institute of Physics, now known only as AVS
- [Angle of Vanishing Stability](/source/Angle_of_Vanishing_Stability), the angle at which a boat will capsize
- [Acid volatile sulfide](/source/Acid_volatile_sulfide)

### Audio video

- [Audio Video Standard](/source/Audio_Video_Standard), a Chinese multimedia standard
- Auditory Visual Stimulation, a controversial princip of the called [Mind machine](/source/Mind_machine), or psychowalkman

### Hardware

- [Adaptive voltage scaling](/source/Adaptive_voltage_scaling), Adaptive Voltage Scaling as power optimization techniques
- [Adjustable Voltage Supply](/source/USB_hardware#USB_Power_Delivery) (AVS)

### Software

- [Advanced Visualization Studio](/source/Advanced_Visualization_Studio), a music visualization plugin for Winamp
- [Alexa Voice Service](/source/Alexa_Voice_Service), a cloud-based voice recognition service
- [AOL Active Virus Shield](/source/AOL_Active_Virus_Shield), a discontinued free antivirus utility made available by AOL
- [AviSynth](/source/AviSynth), a script-based frameserver
- Cisco application [virtual switch](/source/Virtual_switch)

### Verification systems

- [Address verification service](/source/Address_verification_service), a security measure in credit card processing
- [Adult Verification System](/source/Adult_Verification_System), a system used by websites to confirm that someone accessing their site is of the age of majority

## Other uses

- *Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra*, known in English as the [Greens and Left Alliance](/source/Greens_and_Left_Alliance), an Italian electoral coalition composed of two political parties: [Italian Left](/source/Italian_Left) and [Green Europe](/source/Green_Europe).
- [American Viola Society](/source/American_Viola_Society), an organization of viola players and enthusiasts
- [American Vegan Society](/source/American_Vegan_Society), an organization that promotes veganism in the United States
- [Atharvaveda](/source/Atharvaveda), aka Atharvaveda-Shaunakiya, a sacred Hindu text
- [AVS-36](/source/AVS-36), Soviet automatic rifle
- Nintendo Advanced Video System, or AVS, the original name for the [Nintendo Entertainment System](/source/Nintendo_Entertainment_System)
- *[A Vampyre Story](/source/A_Vampyre_Story)*, the 2007 Autumn Moon Entertainment adventure game
- A US Navy hull classification symbol: [Aviation stores issue ship (AVS)](/source/List_of_auxiliaries_of_the_United_States_Navy#Aviation_stores_issue_ships_(AVS))
- [Autonomous vehicles](/source/Autonomous_vehicles), or AVs

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