SS (disambiguation)

Contents 1 Military 2 History, government, and social sciences 3 Transport 4 Geography 5 Business and economics 6 Religion 7 Sports 8 Other

SS usually refers to the Schutzstaffel, a Nazi paramilitary force. It may also refer to:

Military

• Special Service, a division of soldiers in British service during World War II (later renamed Commandos)
• Submarine, for which "SS" is the United States Navy designator
• Surface-to-surface missile of Soviet/Russian type, as listed by NATO
• Sea Scout class airship, a class of British airship during World War I

History, government, and social sciences

• Collar of Esses, an ornamental collar in British heraldry
• Social Studies, a group of academic disciplines that study the human aspects of the world
• Selective Service, the means by which the United States administers military conscription
• Social security, a field of social welfare concerned with the fulfillment of socially recognized needs
• Simplified spelling, the object of spelling reform and campaigning issue of the Simplified Spelling Society

Transport

• Corsairfly, a Paris-based airline company with IATA airline code "SS"
• Steamship a ship powered by steam
• Super Sport, a performance package offered by Chevrolet
• SS Cars Ltd, the forerunner of Jaguar
• Swallow Sidecar Company, the former name of the Jaguar automobile company
• Sand Springs Railway, which has the Association of American Railroads (AAR) reporting mark "SS"
• Stockholms Spårvägar, the former public streetcar and bus operating company (1915-66) in Stockholm, Sweden
• A sports car sold by the Australian Holden Commodore car company
• Shaoshan, a series of electric locomotives in China railway
• Super Sport, a commercial designation for certain American sports cars in the late 20th century.

Geography

• Sassari, an Italian province

Business and economics

• Sláturfélag Suðurlands, an Icelandic company ("Southern Association of Slaughter")

Religion

• Saints, often abbreviated "SS" in the plural (e.g. "SS Peter and Paul")
• Sabbath School, part of the weekly Seventh-day Adventist Church service

Sports

• Società Sportiva (Italian for "Sport Society"), frequently found as an identifier in the names of Italian sports clubs
• Shortstop, a defensive position in baseball
• Strong Safety, a defensive position in American and Canadian football
• single-speed bicycle, a bicycle, often a mountain bike, having only one gear ratio

Other

• Sickle-cell disease
• The ß ligature (German letter for double "s").
• Slave select, a control line for the Serial Peripheral Interface Bus
• Society of Saint-Sulpice, in that the initials "S.S." after a person's name may indicate membership therein
• Spread Spectrum, a communications technique (FHSS, DSSS, CDMA), usually used for wireless
• Sum of squares, a mathematical equation used in statistics
• Stone Sour, an American Rock band
• Swati language, ISO code
• SS (manga), a Japanese comic produced between 2000 and 2003