PPS
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PPS may refer to:
In commerce and industry
In computing
In education
In politics and government
In science and technology
In statistics
In commerce and industry
- Participating preferred stockParticipating Preferred StockParticipating preferred stock is preferred stock which provides a specific dividend that is paid before any dividends are paid to common stock holders, and which takes precedence over common stock in the event of a liquidation. This form of financing is used by private equity investors and venture...
or participating preferred share - Purchasing Power Standard
- Pay Per SalePay Per SalePay-per-sale or PPS is an online advertisement pricing system where the publisher or website owner is paid on the basis of the number of sales that are directly generated by an advertisement...
, a payment method used in affiliate marketing. - Project for Public SpacesProject for Public SpacesProject for Public Spaces is a nonprofit organization based in New York dedicated to creating and sustaining public places that build communities. Planning and design rooted in the community form the cornerstone of PPS’s work. Building on the techniques of William H...
, nonprofit organization dedicated to creating and sustaining public places that build communities - PPS.tv, Chinese peer-to-peer streaming video network software
- Priority Passenger Service, a high level of Singapore Airlines' frequent flyer programme
- Premium Packaged Spirits or Pre-Packaged Spirits, a term for alcopopAlcopopAlcopop is a colloquial term describing certain flavored alcoholic beverages, including:#malt beverages to which various fruit juices or other flavorings have been added...
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In computing
- Pulse per secondPulse per secondA pulse per second is an electrical signal that very accurately repeats once per second . PPS signals are output by various types of precision clocks, including atomic clocks, radio clocks and some models of GPS receivers...
signal (related to greater accuracy in computer timing such as Network Time Protocol) - Post-postscriptPostscriptA postscript, abbreviated P.S., is writing added after the main body of a letter . The term comes from the Latin post scriptum, an expression meaning "written after" .A postscript may be a sentence, a paragraph, or occasionally many paragraphs added, often hastily and...
- Packet per second, a router's throughputThroughputIn communication networks, such as Ethernet or packet radio, throughput or network throughput is the average rate of successful message delivery over a communication channel. This data may be delivered over a physical or logical link, or pass through a certain network node...
metric. How many packets a router can forward in a given period of time - .pps, or PowerPoint Show, a file format used by the Microsoft PowerPoint presentation software
In education
- Paterson Public SchoolsPaterson Public SchoolsThe Paterson Public Schools is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in prekindergarten through twelfth grade from Paterson, New Jersey, United States...
district in Paterson, New Jersey - Pittsburgh Public Schools (Pennsylvania) district in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Politics, Psychology and SociologyFaculty of Politics, Psychology, Sociology and International StudiesThe Faculty of Politics, Psychology, Sociology and International Studies at the University of Cambridge was created in January 2009 out of a merger of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences and the Centre of International Studies....
, an undergraduate degree course at the University of CambridgeUniversity of CambridgeThe University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally... - Portland Public Schools (Oregon) district in Portland, Oregon
- Portland Public Schools (Maine) district in Portland, Maine
In politics and government
- Principal Private SecretaryPrincipal Private SecretaryIn the British Civil Service and Australian Public Service the Principal Private Secretary is the civil servant who runs a cabinet minister's private office...
, a high ranking position in the British Civil Service - Parliamentary Private SecretaryParliamentary Private SecretaryA Parliamentary Private Secretary is a role given to a United Kingdom Member of Parliament by a senior minister in government or shadow minister to act as their contact for the House of Commons; this role is junior to that of Parliamentary Under-Secretary, which is a ministerial post, salaried by...
- Partnership for Prosperity and Security in the CaribbeanPartnership for Prosperity and Security in the CaribbeanThe Partnership for Prosperity and Security in the Caribbean is a regional-level dialogue with the stated purpose of providing greater cooperation on security and economic issues...
, an agreement founded by the governments of the United States of America and 15 other nations in the CaribbeanCaribbeanThe Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...
region - Personal Public Service NumberPersonal Public Service NumberThe Personal Public Service Number is an identifier issued by Client Identity Services, Department of Social and Family Affairs on behalf of the Minister for Social and Family Affairs in Ireland....
, Republic of Ireland - Planning Policy StatementsPlanning Policy StatementsIn the United Kingdom, Planning Policy Statements are statements of the British Government's national policy and principles towards certain aspects of the town planning framework. They apply to England only...
, the replacement for Planning Policy Guidance Notes in the United Kingdom, created under the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 - Polska Partia Socjalistyczna, the Polish Socialist PartyPolish Socialist PartyThe Polish Socialist Party was one of the most important Polish left-wing political parties from its inception in 1892 until 1948...
- Parti Populaire Syrien, the Syrian Social Nationalist PartySyrian Social Nationalist PartyThe Syrian Social Nationalist Party , is a secular nationalist political party in Lebanon and Syria. It advocates the establishment of a Syrian nation state spanning the Fertile Crescent, including present day Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, the Palestinian Territories, Israel, Cyprus, Kuwait,...
- Partido Popular Socialista in Latin America, such as:
- Socialist People's Party (Brazil)Socialist People's Party (Brazil)The Socialist People's Party is a political party in Brazil.It was founded in 1992, after the Brazilian Communist Party decided to rename itself the Socialist People's Party as part of a political realignment following the collapse of the Soviet Union.The PPS was a part of the coalition government...
- Popular Socialist Party (Mexico)Popular Socialist Party (Mexico)The Popular Socialist Party is a communist party in Mexico. It was founded in 1948 as the Popular Party by Vicente Lombardo Toledano....
- Popular Socialist Party of MexicoPopular Socialist Party of MexicoPopular Socialist Party of Mexico is a Communist Party in Mexico, formed in 1997 after a split from the Popular Socialist Party .Cuauhtémoc Amezcua Dromundo is the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the party, Juan Campos Vega is the Second Secretary...
- Socialist People's Party (Brazil)
- Pirate Party Switzerland
- Prospective payment systemProspective payment systemA prospective payment system is a means of determining insurance payments based on predetermined prices, commonly from Medicare. Payments are typically based on codes provided on the insurance claim.Examples of these codes include:...
, a health care payment model
In science and technology
- Poly(p-phenylene sulfide)Poly(p-phenylene sulfide)Polyphenylene sulfide is an organic polymer consisting of aromatic rings linked with sulfides. Synthetic fiber and textiles derived from this polymer are known to resist chemical and thermal attack. PPS is used to make filter fabric for coal boilers, papermaking felts, electrical insulation,...
, a thermoplastic polymer - Popliteal pterygium syndromePopliteal pterygium syndromePopliteal pterygium syndrome is an inherited condition affecting the face, limbs, and genitalia. The syndrome goes by a number of names including the popliteal web syndrome and, more inclusively, the facio-genito-popliteal syndrome...
- Post-polio syndromePost-polio syndromePost-polio syndrome is a condition that affects approximately 25–50% of people who have previously contracted poliomyelitis—a viral infection of the nervous system—after the initial infection. Typically the symptoms appear 15–30 years after recovery from the original paralytic attack, at an age of...
- PPS submachine gunPPS submachine gunThe PPS was a family of Soviet submachine guns chambered in 7.62x25mm Tokarev, developed by Alexei Sudayev as a low-cost personal defense weapon for reconnaissance units, vehicle crews and support service personnel.The PPS and its variants were used extensively by the Red...
, a Soviet WWII-era submachine gun - Walther PPSWalther PPSThe Walther PPS is a semi-automatic pistol developed by the German company Carl Walther GmbH Sportwaffen of Ulm for concealed carry for civilians and plainclothes law enforcement personnel. It is available in either 9×19mm Parabellum or .40 S&W chamberings...
, a compact semi-automatic pistol - Proportional Pressure Support, an advanced method of mechanical ventilationMechanical ventilationIn medicine, mechanical ventilation is a method to mechanically assist or replace spontaneous breathing. This may involve a machine called a ventilator or the breathing may be assisted by a physician, respiratory therapist or other suitable person compressing a bag or set of bellows...
in intensive care - A cleavable detergentCleavable detergentCleavable detergents, also known as cleavable surfactants, are special surfactants that are used in biochemistry and especially in proteomics to enhance protein denaturation and solubility...
in biochemistry
In statistics
- Probability-proportional-to-size sampling