NSS
Encyclopedia
Organizations
- Nostalgia Super StockNostalgia Super StockNostalgia Super Stock is a popular, and among the fastest growing forms of drag racing. The Class recreates the style of drag racing very popular in the 1960s with drivers like Ronnie Sox, Dick Landy, Butch Leal and Mickey Thompson....
Nostalgia Super Stock Drag Racing - National Sculpture SocietyNational Sculpture SocietyFounded in 1893, the National Sculpture Society was the first organization of professional sculptors formed in the United States. The purpose of the organization was to promote the welfare of American sculptors, although its founding members included several renowned architects. The founding...
, Established in 1893 to "Spread the knowledge of good sculpture". - Nigerian Student Society, a student society at Universities around the world.
- National Screen ServiceNational Screen ServiceNational Screen Service was a company which controlled the distribution of theatrical advertising materials in the United States from approximately 1940 through the 1980s....
, an American company involved in cinema advertising - National Space SocietyNational Space SocietyThe National Space Society is an international nonprofit 501, educational, and scientific organization specializing in space advocacy...
, an international space advocacy organization - National Secular SocietyNational Secular SocietyThe National Secular Society is a British campaigning organisation that promotes secularism and the separation of church and state. It holds that no-one should gain advantage or disadvantage because of their religion or lack of religion. It was founded by Charles Bradlaugh in 1866...
, a British organization - National Security Service (United States)National Security Service (United States)The National Security Branch is the sub-service within the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation that is responsible for counterterrorism, counterintelligence and intelligence. Headed by an Executive Assistant Director of the FBI, the NSB is responsible to the Director of National Intelligence, the...
, an office in the American FBI - National Speleological SocietyNational Speleological SocietyThe National Speleological Society is an organization formed in 1941 to advance the exploration, conservation, study, and understanding of caves in the United States. Originally located in Washington D.C., its current offices are in Huntsville, Alabama...
, an American organization - National Security Service (Maldives), the former name of the Maldivian armed forces
- National Security Service (Somalia)National Security Service (Somalia)The National Security Service was the primary intelligence service of the government of Siad Barre and the bedrock of its repressive internal security apparatus, existing from 1970 until 1990 when it was formally abolished.- Organization and structure :...
, the former special police of Somalia during the rule of Siad BarreSiad BarreMohamed Siad Barre was the military dictator and President of the Somali Democratic Republic from 1969 to 1991. During his rule, he styled himself as Jaalle Siyaad ....
. - NHS National Services ScotlandNHS National Services ScotlandNHS National Services Scotland is a Non Departmental Public Body which provides advice and services to the rest of NHS Scotland.Accountable to the Scottish Government, NSS works at the heart of the health service, providing national strategic support services and expert advice to NHS Scotland...
, the central support agency to the NHS in Scotland - New Skies Satellites, the former name of the Dutch spacecraft-operator SES NEW SKIES
- People's Socialist Party of MontenegroPeople's Socialist Party of MontenegroPeople Socialist Party of Montenegro was an opposition political party in Montenegro within the Serbian List due to its support of political union of Montenegro with Serbia, holding 1 seat in the Assembly of the Republic of Montenegro...
, a political partyPolitical partyA political party is a political organization that typically seeks to influence government policy, usually by nominating their own candidates and trying to seat them in political office. Parties participate in electoral campaigns, educational outreach or protest actions...
in the Republic of Montenegro within the Serbian List - National Power UnityNational Power UnityNacionālā Spēka SavienībaCurrent Leader:Viktors BirzeFounded:June 26, 2003Headquarters:A. Pumpura 10- 315 kab.Liepāja, LatviaPolitical ideology:Nationalism...
, a far-right party in Latvia - National Service SchemeNational Service SchemeNational Service Scheme ' is an Indian government-sponsored program under the Department of Youth Affairs and Sports of the Government of India. It was started in 1969.-History:...
, a Government of IndiaGovernment of IndiaThe Government of India, officially known as the Union Government, and also known as the Central Government, was established by the Constitution of India, and is the governing authority of the union of 28 states and seven union territories, collectively called the Republic of India...
sponsored program for community service and social activities. - Nair Service SocietyNair Service SocietyThe Nair Service Society is an organization created for the uplift and welfare of the Nair community. It was established under the leadership of Mannathu Padmanabhan...
, a Community welfare organization for the NairNairNair , also known as Nayar , refers to "not a unitary group but a named category of castes", which historically embody several castes and many subdivisions, not all of whom bore the Nair title. These people historically live in the present-day Indian state of Kerala...
Community from KeralaKeralaor Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions.... - Nationalsozialistischer SchülerbundNational Socialist Schoolchildren's LeagueThe National Socialist Schoolchildren's League , known under the acronyms NSS and also, more rarely NSSB, was a National Socialist organisation for primary school pupils providing a student council and child protection system in Germany from 1929 till 1933.-History:The league began roughly around...
the organization for school pupils in the Third Reich - National Statistical Service of the Republic of ArmeniaNational Statistical Service of the Republic of ArmeniaNational Statistical Service of Republic of Armenia is the national statistical agency of Armenia.The statistical institution started its main activity from January 7, 1922 and was called Statistical Department of Soviet Socialist Republic of Armenia...
- Norsk SpisevognselskapNorsk SpisevognselskapNorsk Spisevognselskap A/S, often abbreviated NSS or shortened to Spisevognselskapet, was a Norwegian state enterprise which operated restaurant carriages on Norwegian trains and restaurants at train stations and railway hotels. The company was established in December 1918, and started a catering...
, a dining car company of Norway
Schools
- National Sport School (Canada)National Sport School (Canada)The National Sport School is a public high school in Calgary, Alberta; which teaches grades 9 through 12. The school is specially designed for Canadian Olympic calibre athletes to be able to train and travel internationally, while staying in school...
, a high school in Alberta, Canada - Northern Secondary SchoolNorthern Secondary SchoolNorthern Secondary School is a public high school in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It teaches grades 9 through 12.Northern's football team, the Red Knights, have won numerous titles in Toronto's high school league...
, a public school in Toronto, Canada - North Stratfield School, an elementary school in Fairfield, Connecticut
Spiritual
- Nilachala Saraswata SanghaNilachala Saraswata SanghaNilachala Saraswata Sangha , Oriya : ନୀଳାଚଳ ସାରସ୍ବତ ସଂଘ, Hindi : नीलाचल सारस्वत संघ a religious organization, was founded by Swami Nigamananda Paramahans, exclusively for his household devotees in Orissa on 24 August 1934, Full Moon day, on his birthday, at Nilachala Kutir, Puri, India.NSS is one...
, Established by Swami Nigamananda in 1934 at PuriPuriPuri is district headquarter, a city situated about south of state capital Bhubaneswar, on the eastern coast of the Bay of Bengal in the Indian state of Orissa. It is also known as Jagannath Puri after the Jagannath Temple . It is a holy city of the Hindus as a part of the Char Dham pilgrimages...
(IndiaIndiaIndia , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
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In computing and technology
- Name Service SwitchName Service SwitchThe Name Service Switch is a facility in Unix-like operating systems that provides a variety of sources for common configuration databases and name resolution mechanisms...
, a technology used in UNIX - Namespace Specific String, a part of the syntax of a Uniform Resource NameUniform Resource NameA uniform resource name is a uniform resource identifier that uses the urn scheme and does not imply availability of the identified resource. Both URNs and URLs are URIs, and a particular URI may be a name and a locator at the same time.The functional requirements for uniform resource names are...
- Network Switching SubsystemNetwork Switching SubsystemNetwork switching subsystem is the component of a GSM system that carries out call switching and mobility management functions for mobile phones roaming on the network of base stations...
, a component of the GSM mobile phone network - Network Security ServicesNetwork Security ServicesIn computing, Network Security Services comprises a set of libraries designed to support cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server applications. NSS provides a complete open-source implementation of crypto libraries supporting SSL and S/MIME...
, a set of cryptographic software libraries for client and server security, developed by Netscape/Mozilla - New Star SoccerNew Star SoccerNew Star Soccer, also known as NSS, is a computer game series published by New Star Games, which lets the gamer create and control a new football player as he moves through the ranks of the football leagues and national teams...
, a computer game - Novell Storage ServicesNovell Storage ServicesNovell Storage Services is a file system used by the Novell NetWare operating system. Recently support of NSS was introduced to SUSE Linux via low-level network NCPFS protocol...
, a file system used by the Novell NetWare operating system - NSS (chess program), a 1958 computer chess program
- National Security Systems, a set of U.S. defense IT systems, such as DISN, GIGGlobal Information GridThe Global Information Grid is an all-encompassing communications project of the United States Department of Defense.It is defined as a "globally interconnected, end-to-end set of information capabilities for collecting, processing, storing, disseminating, and managing information on demand to...
-BE, and the Defense Message SystemDefense Message SystemThe Defense Message System or Defense Messaging System is a deployment of secure electronic mail and directory services in the United States Department of Defense... - NonStop ServerNonStopNonStop can refer to the line of HP Integrity NonStop computers, the line of Tandem NonStop computers that preceded them, or the NonStop OS operating system that is designed for them. NonStop systems are based on an integrated hardware/software stack...
, a fault-tolerant computer system - Non-Scratch SATA, a type of SATASerial ATASerial ATA is a computer bus interface for connecting host bus adapters to mass storage devices such as hard disk drives and optical drives...
connector used in some hard drive racks and enclosuresDisk enclosureA disk enclosure is essentially a specialized chassis designed to hold and power disk drives while providing a mechanism to allow them to communicate to one or more separate computers. Drive enclosures provide power to the drives therein and convert the data sent across their native data bus into a...
Other
- Nostalgia Super StockNostalgia Super StockNostalgia Super Stock is a popular, and among the fastest growing forms of drag racing. The Class recreates the style of drag racing very popular in the 1960s with drivers like Ronnie Sox, Dick Landy, Butch Leal and Mickey Thompson....
, Fastest growing Class of Drag Racing - The National Security Strategy of the United StatesNational Security Strategy of the United StatesThe National Security Strategy is a document prepared periodically by the executive branch of the government of the United States for Congress which outlines the major national security concerns of the United States and how the administration plans to deal with them. The legal foundation for the...
- Naked short sellingNaked short sellingNaked short selling, or naked shorting, is the practice of short-selling a financial instrument without first borrowing the security or ensuring that the security can be borrowed, as is conventionally done in a short sale. When the seller does not obtain the shares within the required time frame,...
, an illegal practice in stock trading - Newsstand Specials, a spinoff of the Playboy magazine
- Nice Skate Shoes, a shoe brand
- A National Stockpile Site for the storage of nuclear weapons
- National Student SurveyNational student surveyThe National Student Survey is a survey, launched in 2005, of all final year degree students at institutions in England, Wales and Northern Ireland...
, a survey of final-year degree students in the UK - Neutral Salt Spray testSalt spray testThe salt spray test is a standardized test method used to check corrosion resistance of coated samples. Coatings provide corrosion resistance to metallic parts made of steel, zamak or brass. Since coatings can provide a high corrosion resistance through the intended life of the part in use, it is...
, a test to qualify the corrosion resistance of coatings on metal - No Shit Sherlock, a phrase used to express someones lack of surprise at a question or statement