# SPS

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**SPS** may refer to:

## Law and government

- [Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures](/source/Agreement_on_the_Application_of_Sanitary_and_Phytosanitary_Measures) of the WTO
- [NATO Science for Peace and Security](/source/NATO_Science_for_Peace_and_Security)
- [Single Payment Scheme](/source/Single_Payment_Scheme), an EU agricultural subsidy
- [The Standard Procurement System](/source/The_Standard_Procurement_System), for the US Department of Defense
- [Somali Postal Service](/source/Somali_Postal_Service)
- [Staff and Personnel Support Branch](/source/Staff_and_Personnel_Support_Branch), part of the British Army Adjutant General's Corps
- Unofficial [ship prefix](/source/Ship_prefix) for Spanish naval warships (Spanish Ship)

### Police and prisons

- [Saskatoon Police Service](/source/Saskatoon_Police_Service), Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
- [Scottish Prison Service](/source/Scottish_Prison_Service)
- [Singapore Prison Service](/source/Singapore_Prison_Service), a government agency of the Government of Singapore under the hierarchy of the Ministry of Home Affairs
- Station police sergeant or [station sergeant](/source/Station_sergeant), former UK police rank
- [State Police Services (India)](/source/State_Police_Services_(India))
- [Surrey Police Service](/source/Surrey_Police_Service), British Columbia, Canada

## Organisations

- [Sahara Press Service](/source/Sahara_Press_Service), of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
- [Sierra Peaks Section](/source/Sierra_Peaks_Section)
- [SPS Commerce](/source/SPS_Commerce)
- [SPS Technologies, Inc.](/source/Standard_Pressed_Steel), acquired by [Precision Castparts Corp.](/source/Precision_Castparts_Corp.)
- [Sussex Piscatorial Society](/source/Sussex_Piscatorial_Society), a fishing club in the UK
- Swiss Society of Proteomics, of [Life Sciences Switzerland](/source/Life_Sciences_Switzerland)

### Education

- [New York University School of Professional Studies](/source/New_York_University_School_of_Professional_Studies)
- [Sadiq Public School](/source/Sadiq_Public_School), a school in Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan
- [Saint Paul Seminary](/source/Saint_Paul_Seminary), a Catholic seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota, US
- [Social and Political Sciences](/source/Social_and_Political_Sciences), of the University of Cambridge, UK
- [Society of Physics Students](/source/Society_of_Physics_Students)
- [Springfield Public Schools (Missouri)](/source/Springfield_Public_Schools_(Missouri)), school district, US
- [St. Patrick's Higher Secondary School](/source/St._Patrick's_Higher_Secondary_School), Asansol, India
- [St. Paul's School (disambiguation)](/source/St._Paul's_School_(disambiguation)), various schools
- [Stromness Primary School](/source/Stromness_Primary_School), a primary school in [Stromness, Orkney](/source/Stromness,_Orkney)

### Political parties

- [Socialist Party of Serbia](/source/Socialist_Party_of_Serbia) (*Socijalistička partija Srbije*), a political party in Serbia
- [Union of Right Forces](/source/Union_of_Right_Forces) (*Soyuz Pravykh Sil*), a former political party in Russia
- [Soy Porque Somos](/source/Soy_Porque_Somos), Colombian left-wing political movement founded in 2021

### Religion

- [Saint Patrick’s Society for the Foreign Missions](/source/Saint_Patrick%E2%80%99s_Society_for_the_Foreign_Missions), Ireland, post-nominal
- [Society for Pentecostal Studies](/source/Society_for_Pentecostal_Studies)

## Science and technology

- [Sodium polyanethol sulfonate](/source/Sodium_polyanethol_sulfonate), an anticoagulant used in [blood culture](/source/Blood_culture) media
- [Solanapyrone synthase](/source/Solanapyrone_synthase), an enzyme
- [Spark plasma sintering](/source/Spark_plasma_sintering)
- [Special weather statement](/source/Special_weather_statement), US
- [Stand-alone power system](/source/Stand-alone_power_system), an off-the-grid electricity system
- Standard positioning service, a [Global Positioning System](/source/Global_Positioning_System) feature
- [Sucrose-phosphate synthase](/source/Sucrose-phosphate_synthase), a plant enzyme involved in sucrose biosynthesis
- [Super Proton Synchrotron](/source/Super_Proton_Synchrotron), a particle accelerator at CERN
- [Samples per second](/source/Samples_per_second)

### Computing

- [Shell Processing Support](/source/Shell_Processing_Support), a file format for seismic data
- [IBM 1401 Symbolic Programming System](/source/IBM_1401_Symbolic_Programming_System) and IBM 1620/1710 Symbolic Programming System, assemblers

### Medicine and psychology

- [Sensory processing sensitivity](/source/Sensory_processing_sensitivity), the defining personality trait of Highly Sensitive Persons (HSPs)
- [Serrated polyposis syndrome](/source/Serrated_polyposis_syndrome), a disorder characterized by the appearance of serrated [polyps](/source/Polyp_(medicine)) in the colon
- [Sterile processing service](/source/Sterile_processing_service)
- [Stiff-person syndrome](/source/Stiff-person_syndrome), a rare neurologic disorder
- [Syntactic positive shift](/source/Syntactic_positive_shift), a peak in brain activity

### Military and space

- Service propulsion system in the [Apollo service module](/source/Apollo_service_module#Service_Module_(SM))
- [Solar power satellite](/source/Solar_power_satellite), to beam power to Earth
- Side protection system or [torpedo belt](/source/Torpedo_belt) of a warship
- [SR-1 Vektor](/source/SR-1_Vektor) (Samozaryadnyj Pistolet Serdjukova – Serdyukov Self-loading pistol)

## Transportation

- [Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway](/source/Spokane,_Portland_and_Seattle_Railway), a defunct railroad in the United States
- [Wichita Falls Municipal Airport](/source/Wichita_Falls_Municipal_Airport) (IATA airport code)

## Other uses

- Abbreviation of [San Pedro Sula](/source/San_Pedro_Sula), second largest city in Honduras.
- [Sony Imaging Pro Support](/source/Sony_Imaging_Pro_Support), for photographers
- [SPS (Mongolia)](/source/SPS_(Mongolia)), a TV channel
- [Sam Petrevski-Seton](/source/Sam_Petrevski-Seton), an Australian rules footballer
- "S.P.S.", a song by Kasabian from the album *[48:13](/source/48:13)*

## See also

- **SPs**
- [SPSS](/source/SPSS)
- [SP (disambiguation)](/source/SP_(disambiguation))

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