NS

NS as an abbreviation can mean:

Arts and entertainment

Gaming

Literature

  • New Spring (known to fans as "NS"), a 1999 anthology edited by Robert Silverberg and derivative 2004 novella by Robert Jordan
  • NS-series robots from the book I, Robot

Companies

Government and politics

  • Nasjonal Samling, a 1930s Norwegian national socialist political party
  • National service, a name for the conscription system of some militaries
  • National Socialism or Nazism, the ideology held by, among other political parties, the National Socialist German Workers Party
  • New Serbia (political party) (Nova Srbija), a political party in Serbia
  • People's Party (Narodna stranka), a political party in Serbia
  • New Slovenia (also known as Nova Slovenija - Krscanski Ljudska Stranka), a right-of-centre political party in Slovenia
  • People's Party (Montenegro) (Narodna Stranka), a political party in the Republic of Montenegro

Places

  • Negeri Sembilan, one of the fourteen states in Malaysia
  • Novi Sad, a city in Serbia (license plate code)
  • Nova Scotia, as the official Canadian postal abbreviation for the province

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

  • Nervous system, the system of neurons that coordinates the actions of an organism
  • Normal saline, a solution of sodium chloride used in intravenous drips

Computing

  • Name server, a computer server that implements a name service protocol
  • Namespace, an abstract container used in computing
  • Neighbor Solicitation, part of IPv6's Neighbor Discovery Protocol
  • NeXTSTEP, an object-oriented, multitasking operating system by NeXT, as well as a prefix for certain system-provided classes in the operating system, such as "NSString"
  • ns (simulator) (or "ns-2"), an open source network simulator

Mathematics

Other uses in science and technology

Other uses

  • National school (Ireland), a type of school
  • New Style (as "N.S." in opposition to Old Style as "O.S."), indicating either a date in the Julian Calendar with the start of year adjusted to 1 January, or a date in the Gregorian calendar
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