SPS

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The abbreviation SPS may stand for:

City

• San Pedro Sula, Honduras

Computing

• Shell Processing Support, a standard file format to exchange Seismic data
• Simple, Powerful Statistics, a computer program for using Rodger's method
• Site Preview System, a content bundling and scheduling system for the Drupal website content management system
• IBM 1401 Symbolic Programming System, a code assembler

Educational, scholarly, and professional institutions

• St Paul's School, London
• St. Paul's School (New Hampshire), a school in the United States
• St. Patrick's Higher Secondary School, a school in Asansol, India
• Sigma Pi Sigma, an honor society in the United States
• Social and Political Sciences, of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom
• Society for Pentecostal Studies, an association of biblical scholars
• Society of Physics Students, an international professional association
• Swiss Society of Proteomics, see Life Sciences Switzerland
• Software Preservation Society, a society dedicated to preserving obsolete software
• Seattle Public Schools, the school district serving the city of Seattle

Medicine and psychology

• Syntactic positive shift, an event-related potential in brain imaging
• Sensory processing sensitivity, a defining psychological trait of Highly Sensitive Persons, characterized by increased depth of processing of sensory input
• Stiff person syndrome, a rare neurologic disorder

Politics, treaties, political parties, and government uses

• NATO Science for Peace and Security, a NATO programme
• Socialist Party of Serbia (Socijalistička partija Srbije), a political party in Serbia
• Union of Right Forces (Soyuz Pravykh Sil), a former political party in Russia
• Sahara Press Service, the press agency of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
• Single Payment Scheme, a European Union Common Agricultural Policy subsidy payment system
• Scottish Prison Service
• Singapore Prison Service
• Somali Postal Service
• State Police Services (India), a number of police services in India
• Sanitary and Phytosanitary Agreement, an international treaty of the World Trade Organization
• The Standard Procurement System, for the US Department of Defense
• Staff and Personnel Support Branch, part of the British Army Adjutant General's Corps

Science and engineering

• Samples per second, the sampling rate in converting a continuous signal to a discrete one
• Service propulsion system, the rocket engine on the United States Apollo Program Service Module
• Side protection system, another term for a torpedo belt, a part of armoured warship design
• Small polyp stony, term for a class of Scleractinia corals
• Solanapyrone synthase, an alternative name for the enzyme Prosolanapyrone-III cycloisomerase
• Solar power satellite, an orbital satellite designed to beam solar power down to Earth
• Spark plasma sintering, a sintering technique
• Special weather statement
• Stand-alone power system
• Standard positioning service, a Global Positioning System feature
• Super Proton Synchrotron, a particle accelerator at CERN

Other uses

• Wichita Falls Municipal Airport (IATA airport code)
• SPS (Mongolia), television channel of the Mongolian National Broadcasting Service
• Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway, a defunct railroad in the United States
• Station police sergeant, or station sergeant, a defunct British police rank
• Sussex Piscatorial Society, a fishing club in the United Kingdom
• Saint Patrick’s Society for the Foreign Missions, a society of missionary secular priests of Ireland
• Sony Imaging Pro Support, a service program for Sony professional photographers
• Sunday PinaSaya, a Philippine comedy-variety show