VSS
Encyclopedia
Organizations
- Vernon Secondary SchoolVernon Secondary SchoolVernon Secondary is a public high school in Vernon, British Columbia, Canada. It is part of School District 22 Vernon.-Symbols:A panther is the school mascot and the institution's recreational teams are thus named accordingly.The school's adopted colors are Navy Blue and Red, primarily, with the...
, a high school in Vernon, B.C. - Valley Stream South High SchoolValley Stream South High SchoolValley Stream South High School is a combined public junior and senior high school in the village of Valley Stream, New York, more specifically, the hamlet of South Valley Stream, New York in southwest Nassau County on Long Island...
in Valley Stream, New York - Vaughan Secondary SchoolVaughan Secondary SchoolVaughan Secondary School is a high school in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada. The school is administered by the York Region District School Board, and is home to RAV-FM, the only Canadian FM radio station licensed to a public high school...
, a public highschool located in Thornhill, Ontario operated by the York Region District School Board - Voluntary Sports Societies of the USSR
- VUE Support Services, Pearson VUEPearson VUEPearson VUE is an electronic testing company owned by British media company Pearson PLC. Founded in 1994 by E. Clarke Porter as Virtual University Enterprises, the company now operates in 165 countries with more than 5,000 authorized test centres ....
's support service - Veronis Suhler StevensonVeronis Suhler StevensonVeronis Suhler Stevenson, or VSS is a private equity firm whose investments are exclusively concentrated in the Media industry and related sectors including information, education, marketing services and business services...
, a private equity firm operating in the media and communications sector - VSS Catholic Communications A catholic Radio station in Nebraska. It serves the Omaha, Lincoln, Norfolk, Grand Island, as well as the western Iowa area.
- Vision Sciences Society, an organization of researchers investigating the visual system
Military
- VSS VintorezVSS VintorezThe VSS , also called the Vintorez , is a silent sniper rifle developed in the late 1980s by TsNIITochMash and manufactured by the Tula Arsenal...
, a Soviet sniper rifle - VSTOL Support ShipVSTOL Support ShipThe VSTOL Support Ship was a proposed light aircraft carrier design for the United States Navy in the late 1970s that would be smaller and less expensive than the Navy's existing aircraft carriers such as the . The design would cost one-quarter as much, although the V/STOL aircraft it would carry...
, a proposed U.S. Navy light carrier from the 1970s
Technology
- Cisco Catalyst 6500Catalyst 6500The Catalyst 6500 is a modular chassis network switch manufactured by Cisco Systems since 1999, capable of delivering speeds of up to "400 million packets per second"....
Virtual Switching System (VSS) - Microsoft Visual SourceSafeMicrosoft Visual SourceSafeMicrosoft Visual SourceSafe is a source control software package oriented towards small software development projects. Like most source control systems, SourceSafe creates a virtual library of computer files...
, a source control software system - Microsoft Shadow Copy, also known as Volume Snapshot Service
- Virtual sound system
- Virtual surroundVirtual surroundVirtual surround is an audio system which attempts to create the perception that there are many more sources of sound than are actually present. In order to achieve this it is necessary to devise some means of tricking the human auditory system into thinking that a sound is coming from somewhere...
sound, an audio processing technique - VSS, a label used for negative power supply pinIC power supply pinAlmost all integrated circuits have at least two pins that connect to the power rails of the circuit in which they are installed. These are known as the IC's power supply pins...
on Field-effect transistor-based integrated circuits (historically, S stands for source) - Video scene segmentation, typically splitting a video stream into segments at scene changes
- Video Surveillance System, alternative name for Closed-circuit televisionClosed-circuit televisionClosed-circuit television is the use of video cameras to transmit a signal to a specific place, on a limited set of monitors....
systems - Visual Scheduling Systems, VSS, University, College and High School timetabling system
Other
- Volatile suspended solidsVolatile suspended solidsVolatile suspended solids is a water quality measure obtained from the loss on ignition of total suspended solids.-References:*...
, a water quality measure - "Virgin Space Ship" used by Virgin GalacticVirgin GalacticVirgin Galactic is a company within Richard Branson's Virgin Group which plans to provide sub-orbital spaceflights to the paying public, along with suborbital space science missions and orbital launches of small satellites...
for naming their spacecraft (VSS EnterpriseVSS EnterpriseThe VSS Enterprise is the first of five commercial suborbital spacecraft being constructed for Virgin Galactic by Scaled Composites....
, VSS VoyagerVSS VoyagerVSS Voyager is to be the second ship built and used as part of the Virgin Galactic Fleet. It is a SpaceShipTwo-class suborbital manned spaceplane...
) - Variable structure systems, a class of discontinuous nonlinear systems
- Wheel speed sensorWheel speed sensorA wheel speed sensor or vehicle speed sensor is a type of tachometer. It is a sender device used for reading the speed of a vehicle's wheel rotation...
, also known as a Vehicle Speed Sensor, a sensor component of Engine Control Unit management in automobiles - "Vital Signs Stable", in medical terminology
- The VSSThe VSS-History:The VSS formed in 1995 after the breakup of the hardcore group Angel Hair. Vocalist Sonny Kay and guitarist Josh Hughes had both played in Angel Hair; the rest of the lineup consisted of bassist Andrew Douglas Rothbard and Dave Clifford...
, an American rock band - Verifiable secret sharingVerifiable secret sharingIn cryptography, a secret sharing scheme is verifiable if auxiliary information is included that allows players to verify their shares as consistent. More formally, verifiable secret sharing ensures that even if the dealer is malicious there is a well-defined secret that the players can later...
, a cryptographic primitive - Vss Negative Supply, Ground
- VSS, the ticker symbolTicker symbolA stock symbol or ticker symbol is a short abbreviation used to uniquely identify publicly traded shares of a particular stock on a particular stock market. A stock symbol may consist of letters, numbers or a combination of both. "Ticker symbol" refers to the symbols that were printed on the ticker...
for the ETFExchange-traded fundAn exchange-traded fund is an investment fund traded on stock exchanges, much like stocks. An ETF holds assets such as stocks, commodities, or bonds, and trades close to its net asset value over the course of the trading day. Most ETFs track an index, such as the S&P 500 or MSCI EAFE...
of the VanguardThe Vanguard GroupThe Vanguard Group is an American investment management company based in Malvern, Pennsylvania, that manages approximately $1.6 trillion in assets. It offers mutual funds and other financial products and services to individual and institutional investors in the United States and abroad. Founder...
FTSE All-World ex-US Small-Cap index mutual fundMutual fundA mutual fund is a professionally managed type of collective investment scheme that pools money from many investors to buy stocks, bonds, short-term money market instruments, and/or other securities.- Overview :...