# USS

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**USS**, **uss**, or **USs** may refer to:

## Arts, media, and entertainment

- [Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker](/source/Ubiquitous_Synergy_Seeker), an alternative rock musical duo from Toronto, Canada
- [Universal Studios Singapore](/source/Universal_Studios_Singapore), a theme park on Sentosa, Singapore

## Businesses and organizations

- [Union of Sovereign States](/source/Union_of_Sovereign_States), the planned successor to the Soviet Union
- [Union Switch & Signal](/source/Union_Switch_%26_Signal), a supplier of railroad switching equipment
- Union Syndicale Suisse, the [Swiss Trade Union Confederation](/source/Swiss_Trade_Union_Confederation)
- [United Seamen's Service](/source/United_Seamen's_Service), a non-profit, federally chartered organization founded in 1942
- [United State of Saurashtra](/source/United_State_of_Saurashtra), a separate, western State within the Union of India from 1948 until 1956
- [United States Senate](/source/United_States_Senate), the upper chamber of the United States Congress
- [U.S. Steel](/source/U.S._Steel) Corporation
- [USA Swimming](/source/USA_Swimming), formerly United States Swimming, the national governing body for competitive swimming in the United States
- [Universities Superannuation Scheme](/source/Universities_Superannuation_Scheme), a pension scheme in the United Kingdom
- [United Peasant Party](/source/United_Peasant_Party) (*Ujedinjena seljačka stranka*), a political party in Serbia

## Computing

- Unformatted System Services, the mechanism within [VTAM](/source/VTAM) to format a session's logmode and application. An equivalent facility in TN3270 also specifies a logon screen.
- [UNIX System Services](/source/UNIX_System_Services), a component of z/OS that provides Unix compatibility
- Upload Speed Sense, a method of regulating a host's upload bandwidth in the [eMule](/source/EMule) client

## Health care

- Ultrasound scan, a scientific and medical imaging technique (usually refers to [medical ultrasound](/source/Medical_ultrasound))
- [Upshaw–Schulman syndrome](/source/Upshaw%E2%80%93Schulman_syndrome), the recessively inherited form of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura
- Universal Spinal System, an implantable device (instrumentation) system for correcting [scoliosis](/source/Scoliosis)

## Schools

- [University of Southern Somalia](/source/University_of_Southern_Somalia), a university in Baidoa, Somalia
- [Uxbridge Secondary School](/source/Uxbridge_Secondary_School), a secondary school in Uxbridge, Canada

## Other uses

- [United States Ship](/source/United_States_Ship), a ship prefix in the United States Navy (includes submarines)
- [United States Standard](/source/United_States_Standard), an older standard of screw thread
- In the fictional *[Star Trek](/source/Star_Trek)* universe, either *United Space Ship* or *United Star Ship*

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