SPS

Computer and gaming hardware and software

• SharePoint Portal Server, a Microsoft Office product
• Sleep Proxy Service
  Sleep Proxy Service
  The Sleep Proxy Service is an open sourcecomponent of zero configuration networking, designed to assist in the reduced power consumption of networked electronic devices. A device acting as a sleep proxy server will respond to Multicast DNS queries for another, compatible device which has gone into...
  
  , a power management enhancement to Multicast DNS
• Sony PlayStation, a 1994 video game console
• Symbolic Programming System
  Symbolic Programming System
  The IBM 1401 Symbolic Programming System was an assembler was developed by IBM field engineers as an alternative to the use of machine code for the IBM 1401 computer, the first of the IBM 1400 series. One source indicates that "This programming system was announced by IBM with the machine."...
  
  , a code assembler developed by IBM

Educational, scholarly, and professional institutions

• St. Patrick's School, Asansol, an old school in Asansol, India
• St. Paul's School (Concord, New Hampshire)
  St. Paul's School (Concord, New Hampshire)
  St. Paul's School is a private, college-preparatory, coeducational boarding school in Concord, New Hampshire affiliated with the Episcopal Church. It was founded in 1856 by George Cheyne Shattuck, Jr.. The New Hampshire campus currently serves 533 students. The school became co-educational in 1971...
  
  , a boarding school in the United States
• St Paul's School (London), a day and boarding school in the United Kingdom
• School of Practical Science, of the University of Toronto in Canada
• Sigma Pi Sigma
  Sigma Pi Sigma
  Sigma Pi Sigma is the National Physics Honor Society. It strives to promote physics at all stages, to promote fraternity between those who excel at physics, and to promote service among its members. It is closely associated with the Society of Physics Students .- External links :*...
  
  , an honor society in in the United States
• Social and Political Sciences, of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom
• Society for Pentecostal Studies
  Society for Pentecostal Studies
  The Society for Pentecostal Studies is a scholarly association of biblical scholars, theologians, and others who are members of Pentecostal churches or are involved in the Charismatic Renewal...
  
  , an association of biblical scholars
• Society of Physics Students
  Society of Physics Students
  The Society of Physics Students is a professional association with international participation, granting membership through college chapters with the only requirement that the student member be interested in physics. All college majors are welcome to join SPS, but the highest representation tends...
  
  , an international professional association
• Software Preservation Society
  Software Preservation Society
  The Software Preservation Society , formerly known as the Classic Amiga Preservation Society , is a group that is concentrating on finding old software disks and taking a snapshot of the disks in a format that can be preserved for the future. The images are not made publicly available out of...
  
  , a society dedicated to preserving obsolete software
• Senior Public School, a term used to describe a middle school in North America.
• Sadiq Public School, a boarding school in Pakistan.
• Seattle Public Schools
  Seattle Public Schools
  Seattle Public Schools is the school district serving Seattle, Washington, USA.-List of Schools:As of 2007, the district contains 58 elementary schools, eight K-8 schools, 10 middle schools, 12 high schools, and nine Alternative schools and Special programs.- Demographics :Seattle Public Schools...
  
  , the school district serving the city of Seattle.

Medicine and psychology

• Small Penis Syndrome, a psychological condition
• Stiff person syndrome
  Stiff person syndrome
  Stiff person syndrome is a rare neurologic disorder of unknown etiology characterized by progressive rigidity.-Symptoms and prognosis:...
  
  , a rare neurologic disorder
• P600/SPS (short for Syntactic Positive Shift), an event-related potential in brain imaging

Politics, treaties, political parties, and government uses

• Socialist Party of Serbia
  Socialist Party of Serbia
  The Socialist Party of Serbia is a socialist political party in Serbia.-History:It was founded on July 27, 1990 by Slobodan Milošević as a merger of Milošević's League of Communists of Serbia , and the Socialist Alliance of the Working People of Serbia The Socialist Party of Serbia , a political party in Serbia
• Union of Right Forces
  Union of Right Forces
  The Union of Right Forces, or SPS , was a Russian democratic opposition party associated with free market reforms, privatization, and the legacy of the 'Young Reformers' of the 1990s: Anatoly Chubais, Boris Nemtsov, and Yegor Gaidar. Nikita Belykh is the party's leader...
  
   (Soyuz Pravykh Sil), a political party in Russia
• Social Democratic Party of Switzerland
  Social Democratic Party of Switzerland
  The Social Democratic Party of Switzerland is a political party in Switzerland.It was founded on October 21, 1888, and is currently the second largest of the four leading coalition political parties in Switzerland. It is the left-most party with representatives in the Swiss Federal Council...
  
   (Sozialdemokratische Partei Schweiz), a political party in Switzerland
• Sahara Press Service
  Sahara Press Service
  The Sahara Press Service is the multi-lingual press ministry and propaganda arm of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, the government in exile of Western Sahara. They mainly report government-related news and current affairs, both from within the territory and the Sahrawi refugee camps in...
  
  , the information and propaganda ministry of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
• Single Payment Scheme
  Single Payment Scheme
  On 26 June 2003, EU farm ministers adopted a fundamental reform of the Common Agricultural Policy and introduced a new Single payment scheme for direct subsidy payments to landowners....
  
  , a European Union Common Agricultural Policy
  Common Agricultural Policy
  The Common Agricultural Policy is a system of European Union agricultural subsidies and programs. It represents 48% of the EU's budget, €49.8 billion in 2006 ....
  
   subsidy payment system
• Scottish Prison Service
  Scottish Prison Service
  The Scottish Prison Service is an executive agency of the Scottish Government tasked with managing prisons in Scotland...
  
  
• Singapore Prison Service
  Singapore Prison Service
  The Singapore Prison Service is an agency of the Government of Singapore under the hierarchy of the Ministry of Home Affairs. It runs 14 prisons and drug rehabilitation centres in Singapore. It is situated at Upper Changi Road....
  
  
• Swedish Police Service
  Swedish Police Service
  The Swedish Police Service is a collection of Government agencies concerned with police matters in Sweden.The Swedish Police Service consists of 26 122 employees of which 39 per cent are women...
  
  
• Sanitary and Phytosanitary Agreement, an international treaty of the World Trade Organization
• Standard Procurement System for the US Department of Defense

Science and engineering

• Sewerage Pumping Station (or Sanitary Pumping Station), a pumping facility designed to handle raw sewage
• Simple Partial Switching, a method used in power factor correction circuits
• Side Protection System
  Torpedo belt
  The torpedo belt was part of the armouring scheme in some warships of between the 1920s and 1940s. It consisted of a series of lightly armoured compartments, extending laterally along a narrow belt that intersected the ship's waterline...
  
  s, a part of early warship design
• Solar power satellite, an orbital satellite designed to beam solar power down to Earth
• Stand-alone power system (SPS or SAPS)
• Super Proton Synchrotron
  Super Proton Synchrotron
  The Super Proton Synchrotron is a 6.9 km long particle accelerator at CERN. The SPS was designed by a team led by John Adams, director-general of what was then known as Laboratory II. Originally specified as a accelerator, the SPS was actually built to be capable of 400 GeV, an...
  
  , a particle accelerator at CERN
• Switching-mode power supply, an electronic power supply unit that incorporates a switching regulator
• Samples Per Second
  Sampling rate
  The sampling rate, sample rate, or sampling frequency defines the number of samples per second taken from a continuous signal to make a discrete signal. For time-domain signals, it can be measured in samples per second , or hertz...
  
  , the frequency of samples taken from a continuous signal to make a discrete signal
• Spark Plasma Sintering
  Spark plasma sintering
  Spark plasma sintering , also known as field assisted sintering technique or pulsed electric current sintering , is a novel sintering technique....
  
  , a sintering technique
• Statistic Process Control, a method of monitoring a process through the use of control charts

Other uses in the Americas

• San Pedro Sula
  San Pedro Sula
  San Pedro Sula is a city in Honduras. It is located in the northwest corner of the country, in the Valle de Sula , about 60 km south of Puerto Cortés on the Caribbean Sea...
  
  , a city in Honduras
• Wichita Falls Municipal Airport
  Wichita Falls Municipal Airport
  Wichita Falls Municipal Airport is an airport located five miles north of the central business district of Wichita Falls, a city in Wichita County, Texas, United States. The airport is joint use in that its runways and taxiways are shared with Sheppard Air Force Base...
  
   (IATA airport code)
• Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway
  Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway
  The Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway was a United States-based railroad incorporated in 1905. It was a joint venture by the Great Northern Railway and the Northern Pacific Railway to build a railroad along the north bank of the Columbia River....
  
  , a defunct railroad in the United States

Other uses in the UK

• Supreme Potato Supplies (London), a wholesale delivery company in the United Kingdom
• Station Police Sergeant
  Station Sergeant
  Station Sergeant was a rank in the London Metropolitan Police and continues as a rank in the Hong Kong Police Force. It is also a rank used by the Australian Federal Police whilst members are attached to the International Deployment Group....
  
  , a defunct British police rank
• Sussex Piscatorial Society
  Sussex Piscatorial Society
  Sussex Piscatorial Society is a unique and historic fishing club with waters in East and West Sussex and surrounding counties.SPS was founded in 1891, and separate Coarse and Trout Sections were created in 1923....
  
  , a fishing club in the United Kingdom