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NSS may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• New Star Soccer, a computer game
• Nintendo Switch Sports, a 2022 video game
• Newsstand Specials, a spinoff of Playboy magazine
• Nintendo Super System, an arcade game cabinet that plays Super NES games
• Northern Sound System, a youth music education centre and venue in Adelaide, South Australia
• NSS, a 1958 computer chess program

Organizations

Government bodies

• National Security Secretariat (United Kingdom), part of the Cabinet Office
• National Security Service (disambiguation), the name of several intelligence services
• National Seismological Service, an agency of the Mexican government
• National Service Scheme, a Government of India-sponsored program for community service and social activities
• National Statistical Service of the Republic of Armenia, former name of the Statistical Committee of Armenia
• NHS National Services Scotland, the central support agency to the NHS in Scotland

Political parties

• People's Socialist Party of Montenegro, a political party in the Republic of Montenegro
• National Power Unity, a far-right party in Latvia
• People's Peasant Party (Narodna seljačka stranka), a political party in Serbia

Schools

• National Sport School (Canada), a high school in Alberta, Canada
• Nauru Secondary School, a high school in Nauru
• National Socialist Schoolchildren's League (Nationalsozialistischer Schülerbund), the organization for school pupils in the Third Reich
• Northbrooks Secondary School, a secondary school in Yishun, Singapore
• Northern Secondary School, a high school in Toronto, Canada

Companies

• National Screen Service, an American company involved in cinema advertising
• New Skies Satellites, the former name of the Dutch spacecraft operator
• Norsk Spisevognselskap, a dining car company of Norway
• Northern Steamship Company, a New Zealand shipping company

Other organizations

• Nair Service Society, a community welfare organization for the Nair community from Kerala, India
• National Space Society, an international space advocacy organization
• National Sculpture Society, US
• National Secular Society, a British organization
• National Speleological Society, an American organization
• Nilachala Saraswata Sangha, a religious organization
• National Service Scheme, Indian government-sponsored public service programme

Politics and government

For government bodies, see § Government bodies.

For political parties, see § Political parties.

• National Security Strategy (United States)
• National Shelter System, a database of emergency shelters in the US administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency
• National Student Survey, a survey of final-year degree students in the UK
• Nuclear Security Summit, a summit on nuclear security established by US President Obama

Science and technology

Computing

• National Security System, a kind of US government information and telecommunication systems
• Name Service Switch, a technology used in UNIX
• Namespace Specific String, a part of the syntax of a Uniform Resource Name
• Network Security Services, cryptographic software libraries first developed at Netscape for client and server security
• Network switching subsystem, a component of the mobile-phone network
• Novell Storage Services, a file system used by the Novell NetWare operating system
• NSS, a 1958 computer chess program

Other uses in science and technology

• Neurological soft signs, signs of disturbance in neurology
• Neutral salt spray, a salt spray test to qualify the corrosion resistance of coatings on metal
• Normal saline solution, in medicine
• NSS Annapolis, a US Navy VLF and HF radio transmitter site in Annapolis, Maryland

Other uses

• Nostalgia Super Stock, a drag racing class

See also

• NS (disambiguation)