POS
Encyclopedia
Business
- Point of salePoint of salePoint of sale or checkout is the location where a transaction occurs...
, the location where a business transaction occurs- POS terminal, a device by which sales transactions can be directly debited to the customer's bank account
Health and medicine
- Point of service planPoint of service planA point of service plan, or POS plan, is a type of managed care health insurance system. It combines characteristics of both the HMO and the PPO. Members of a POS plan do not make a choice about which system to use until the point at which the service is being used.The POS is based on the basic...
, a type of health insurance in which patients choose their doctor and he/she will be their "point of service" - Polycystic ovary syndromePolycystic ovary syndromePolycystic ovary syndrome is one of the most common female endocrine disorders. PCOS is a complex, heterogeneous disorder of uncertain aetiology, but there is strong evidence that it can to a large degree be classified as a genetic disease....
, a disease of the ovaries
Linguistics
- Part of speech, the role that a word or phrase plays in a sentence
- Piece of shit, a profanity saying something is of poor quality or broken, can also refer to a contemptible person.
- POS, Sayula PopolucaSayula PopolucaSayula Popoluca, also called Sayultec, is a Mixe language spoken by around 4,000 indigenous people in and around the town of Sayula de Alemán in the southern part of the state of Veracruz, Mexico. The language has been extensively studied by Lawrence E...
(ISO 639-3 language code), an indigenous language spoken in Veracruz, Mexico
Music
- P.O.S, Stefan Alexander (b. 1981), a musical artist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Pain of SalvationPain of SalvationPain of Salvation is a Swedish progressive rock band featuring Daniel Gildenlöw, who is the lyricist, chief composer, guitarist, and lead vocalist. Their sound is characterised by powerful, accentuated guitar work, broad vocal range, abrupt switching between heavy and calm passages, intense...
, a Swedish progressive metal band - Paavo SiljamäkiPaavo SiljamäkiPaavo Olavi Siljamäki, , a Finnish trance artist, is one-third of the UK based trance group Above & Beyond. "Paavo Olavi Siljamäki" is also a solo project for Paavo...
, a Finnish trance musician - Posdnuos, Kevin Mercer (b. 1969), a hip-hop artist from New York, best known for being one-third of the hip hop trio De La Soul
Software
- P/OS, the Professional Operating System sold by Digital Equipment Corporation for their PRO-300, PRO-350, and PRO-380 PDP-11-compatible line of personal computers
- Packet over SONET/SDHPacket over SONET/SDHPacket over SONET/SDH, abbreviated POS, is a communications protocol for transmitting packets in the form of the Point to Point Protocol over SDH or SONET, which are both standard protocols for communicating digital information using lasers or light emitting diodes over optical fibre at high...
, a communications protocol for transferring packets over fiber networks - Perq Operating System, operating system for PERQ workstations
- Proceedings of ScienceProceedings of ScienceProceedings of Science is an electronic journal for publishing the proceedings of scientific conferences. It is published by the International School for Advanced Studies and evolved from the Journal of High Energy Physics proceedings section...
, an electronic publishing service for proceedings of scientific conferences
Transportation
- Piarco International AirportPiarco International AirportPiarco International Airport is the main airport serving Trinidad and Tobago located in Piarco, a town in northern Trinidad, about east of the capital city, Port of Spain. It is one of two international airports serving the twin isle republic. The other is located on the island of Tobago, A.N.R...
(IATA airport code: POS) - Pomona (Amtrak station)Pomona (Amtrak station)The Pomona Amtrak station is a train station in Pomona, California, United States served by Amtrak, the national railroad passenger system. The station also serves the Southern California Metrolink Riverside Line...
, California, United States; Amtrak station code POS - Post Office Sorting VanPost Office Sorting VanA Post Office Sorting Van is a type of rail vehicle built for use in a Travelling Post Office.British Rail built ninety-six of these vehicles between 1959 and 1977, to several similar designs, all based on the Mark 1 coach design. They were numbered in the range 80300–80395...
, a type of rail vehicle used in a Travelling Post Office train - SNCF TGV POSSNCF TGV POSThe TGV POS is a TGV train built by French manufacturer Alstom which is operated by the French national rail company, the SNCF in France's high-speed rail lines. It was originally ordered by the SNCF for use on the new LGV Est, which was put into service in 2007...
, a French high-speed train
Other uses
- Phi Omega SigmaPhi Omega SigmaPhi Omega Sigma may refer to the five unrelated student organizations:*Phi Omega Sigma at The College of Wooster, U.S.A....
, a Greek name for 5 different student organizations - Priory of SionPriory of SionThe Prieuré de Sion, translated from French as Priory of Sion, is a name given to multiple groups, both real and fictitious. The most notorious is a fringe fraternal organisation, founded and dissolved in France in 1956 by Pierre Plantard...
, a fictitious secret society - Product of Sums, a canonical form in boolean algebra
- Public open spacePublic open spacePublic Open Space is often referred to by urban planners and landscape architects by the acronym 'POS'. It has a meaning similar to public park, but varied interpretations of the term are possible.'Public' can mean:...
in planning