VSS

VSS may refer to:

Organizations

• Vernon Secondary School, a high school in Vernon, B.C.
• Vaughan Secondary School, in Thornhill, Ontario
• Voluntary Sports Societies of the Soviet Union
• Vegetarian Society (Singapore)
• Veronis Suhler Stevenson, a private equity firm operating in the media and communications sector

Science and technology

• Variable structure system, a class of discontinuous nonlinear systems
• Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, a source control software system
• Volume Snapshot Service, better known as Shadow Copy, a technology included in Microsoft Windows that allows taking manual or automatic backup copies or snapshots of computer files or volumes
• Virtual surround sound, an audio processing technique
• V_SS, a negative IC power-supply pin on field-effect transistor-based integrated circuits
• V_SS, in pharmacokinetics is the apparent volume of distribution at steady state
• Verifiable secret sharing, a cryptographic primitive
• Volatile suspended solids, a water quality measure
• Vital signs stable, in List of medical abbreviations: V
• Vehicle speed sensor, a sensor component of engine control unit management in automobiles

Other

• The VSS, an American rock band
• VSS Vintorez, a Soviet sniper rifle
• VSTOL Support Ship, a proposed U.S. Navy light carrier from the 1970s
• Virgin Space Ship, name prefix for Virgin Galactic's spacecraft
• SNV (typeface), font for road signage, also called VSS after the Vereinigung Schweizerischer Strassenfachleute

See also

• VSS Enterprise, the first Virgin Space Ship
• VSS Voyager, the second Virgin Space Ship