CLS
Encyclopedia
Academic fields
- Critical legal studiesCritical legal studiesCritical legal studies is a movement in legal thought that applied methods similar to those of critical theory to law. The abbreviations "CLS" and "Crit" are sometimes used to refer to the movement and its adherents....
, a contentious school of legal philosophy, that emerged from Harvard Law School in the 1980s - Critical language studies - the study of language that evolved into critical discourse analysisCritical discourse analysisCritical discourse analysis is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of discourse that views language as a form of social practice and focuses on the ways social and political domination are visible in text and talk....
- In statistics, the constrained least square estimator when doing linear regression
Educational institutions
- City of London SchoolCity of London SchoolThe City of London School is a boys' independent day school on the banks of the River Thames in the City of London, England. It is the brother school of the City of London School for Girls and the co-educational City of London Freemen's School...
, an all-boys school - Covington Latin SchoolCovington Latin SchoolCovington Latin School is a co-educational, Catholic, accelerated, college preparatory high school offering a classical education. Since its inception in 1923, Latin School has operated under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Covington, Kentucky...
, a high school in Covington, Kentucky - Center for Language Study, a department at Yale UniversityYale UniversityYale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
- Crystal Lake South High SchoolCrystal Lake South High SchoolCrystal Lake South High School, often referred to as "South" or "CLS," is one of three high schools in Crystal Lake, Illinois, United States, and currently has a body of roughly 1916 students...
, a high school in Crystal Lake, Illinois
Academic associations, divisions, programs and facilities
- Chicago Law School at The University of Chicago
- Columbia Law SchoolColumbia Law SchoolColumbia Law School, founded in 1858, is one of the oldest and most prestigious law schools in the United States. A member of the Ivy League, Columbia Law School is one of the professional graduate schools of Columbia University in New York City. It offers the J.D., LL.M., and J.S.D. degrees in...
at Columbia University - Cornell Law SchoolCornell Law SchoolCornell Law School, located in Ithaca, New York, is a graduate school of Cornell University and one of the five Ivy League law schools. The school confers three law degrees...
at Cornell University - Coalition of Latino and Latina ScholarsCoalition of Latino and Latina ScholarsThe Coalition of Latino and Latina Scholars is a graduate student organization at Teachers College, the Graduate and Professional School of Education at Columbia University. It was founded in Spring 2001 by a group of Latino/a students that felt the need to address interests and concerns of the...
at Teachers College, Columbia University - Canadian Light Source - a synchrotron research facility located at the University of Saskatchewan, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Software & Technology
- Common Language Specification an open specification developed by Microsoft that describes the executable code and runtime environment
- cls (command) is a command in some operating systems, including MS-DOS, and programming languages, such as BASIC, that clears the screen
- Call logging system, a transaction logTransaction logIn the field of databases in computer science, a transaction log is a history of actions executed by a database management system to guarantee ACID properties over crashes or hardware failures...
ging system or interface - Cable landing station, the point at which a submarine cable comes ashore
- Continuous Local Search, a functional complexity class.
Occupational terms
- Clinical laboratory scientistMedical technologistA Medical Laboratory Scientist is a healthcare professional who performs chemical, hematological, immunologic, microscopic, and bacteriological diagnostic analyses on body fluids such as blood, urine, sputum, stool, cerebrospinal fluid , peritoneal fluid, pericardial fluid, and synovial...
, another term for medical technologist, a type of healthcare professional - Combat lifesaver, non-medical or non 68W(Medic) trained personnel trained to assist US Military Occupational Specialty 68W (Medic) during combat situations
Music
- CLS Records, a record label
- Cory Lee Senn, rapper, leader of The M.O.B.The Black Wall Street RecordsThe Black Wall Street Records is a record label founded by Jayceon "Game" Taylor and his half-brother George "Big Fase 100" Taylor III.-History:...
Medicine
- Coffin-Lowry syndromeCoffin-Lowry syndromeCoffin-Lowry syndrome is a genetic disorder that is X-linked dominant and which causes severe mental problems sometimes associated with abnormalities of growth, cardiac abnormalities, kyphoscoliosis, as well as auditory and visual abnormalities.-History:...
, a genetic disorder associated with mental retardation - Clinical laboratory scientistMedical technologistA Medical Laboratory Scientist is a healthcare professional who performs chemical, hematological, immunologic, microscopic, and bacteriological diagnostic analyses on body fluids such as blood, urine, sputum, stool, cerebrospinal fluid , peritoneal fluid, pericardial fluid, and synovial...
, another term for a medical technologist, a type of healthcare professional
Business and finance
- Continuous linked settlementContinuous linked settlementContinuous Linked Settlement is a process by which a number of the world's largest banks manage settlement of foreign exchange amongst themselves . The process is managed by CLS Group Holdings AG and its subsidiary companies and include CLS Bank, a settlement bank regulated by the Federal Reserve...
, a financial clearing system - CelesticaCelesticaCelestica Inc. is a multinational electronics manufacturing services company headquartered in Toronto, Canada. Celestica’s global manufacturing network comprises more than 40 locations in 11 countries in the Americas, Europe and Asia, supplying a wide variety of leading OEMs...
(New York Stock Exhchange symbol: CLS) - Co-operative Legal ServicesCo-operative Legal ServicesCo-operative Legal Services Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of Co-operative Group Ltd. in the United Kingdom. It was established in 2006 and has its head office in Bristol....
Ltd. - CLS CommunicationCLS CommunicationCLS Communication is a language translation, editing and writing services company based in Switzerland. It has 19 offices on three continents, and provides writing, editing and translating services to customers in the financial services, life sciences, telecommunications and legal industries.The...
, a global language translation services provider.
Politics
- The Communist League of StruggleCommunist League of StruggleThe Communist League of Struggle was a small communist organization active in the United States during the 1930s. Founded by Albert Weisbord and his wife, Vera Buch, who were veterans of the Left Socialist movement and the Communist Party USA, the CLS briefly affiliated with Leon Trotsky...
, a small Trotskyist political party in the United States which existed from 1931 to 1937
Miscellaneous products
- The Mercedes-Benz CLS-ClassMercedes-Benz CLS-ClassThe Mercedes-Benz CLS is an executive-size sedan originally launched in 2004 and based on the W211 E-Class platform and was internally designated as the C219...
, a series of automobile models - Nikon's Creative Lighting System, a complete lighting solution for Nikon's camera bodies and external light units