KS

KS and variants may refer to:

Arts and media

• Katawa Shoujo, a 2012 visual novel
• Kammersänger, a German honorary title for a distinguished opera singer
• Keenspot, a webcomics/webtoons portal founded in March 2000 by cartoonist Chris Crosby
• Kill stealing, a practice in online games
• Kirk/Spock or K/S, slash fiction

Businesses and organizations

• Kampfschwimmer, a German postwar commando frogman force
• Kommandittselskap, a Norwegian type of company
• Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities
• Keenspot, a webcomics/webtoons portal founded in March 2000 by cartoonist Chris Crosby
• AirConnect a.k.a. Aeroitalia Regional, a Romanian airline (IATA code KS)
• PenAir, or Peninsula Airways, a defunct airline based in Anchorage, Alaska, US (former IATA code KS)

Language

• Kashmiri language, a Dardic language of Kashmir (ISO 639 alpha-2 language code "ks")
• Kernowek Standard, an orthography for Revived Cornish
• Kiasu, Hokkien (a Chinese spoken variant) word for 'extreme fear of losing' (怕输)
• Sound of the Latin letter X in many languages

Places

• Kansas (US postal abbreviation KS)
• South Kalimantan, Indonesia (ISO 3166-2 province code)
• Krems an der Donau, Austria (vehicle plate code)
• Kassel, Germany (vehicle plate code)
• Khatumo State, an unrecognised proto-state in northern Somalia
• Northampton, Great Britain (vehicle plate code)
• Košice-okolie District, Slovakia (vehicle plate code)

Science, technology, and mathematics

Biochemistry

• Keratan sulfate, any of several sulfated glycosaminoglycans
• Ketoacyl synthase, a domain of polyketide synthases with a thiol group on a cysteine side-chain

Medicine

• Kaposi's sarcoma, a tumor caused by Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV8)
• Kartagener syndrome, a genetic disorder
• Kallmann syndrome, a genetic disorder preventing the start or completion of puberty
• Klinefelter's Syndrome, caused by a chromosome aneuploidy

Other uses in science, technology, and mathematics

• Kernel streaming, a method of processing streamed data
• kilosample (kS), 1000 samples of a digitized signal
• Kilosecond (ks), 1000 seconds (16 minutes, 40 seconds)
• Kolmogorov–Smirnov test, a goodness-of-fit test for probability distributions

Other uses

• Kaplan–Sheinwold, a contract bridge bidding system
• Key Stage, a term used in the British education system
• King's Scholar, at a UK public school (here meaning a kind of private school)
• King's Serjeant, an obsolete UK legal post
• Kashmiri Wikipedia, Wikipedia in the Kashmiri language
• Strikeouts, in baseball
• Contracts, in legal shorthand
• Slovak koruna, the currency of Slovakia 1993–2008 and of the 1939–1945 Slovak State

See also

• K+S, a German chemical company
• The K's, an English indie rock band
• Kays, (disambiguation)