NS as an abbreviation can mean:
In geography:
- Negeri Sembilan, one of the fourteen states in Malaysia
- Novi Sad, a city in Serbia (license plate code)
- Nova Scotia, as the official Canadian postal abbreviation for the province
In government and politics:
- Nasjonal Samling, a 1930s Norwegian national socialist political party
- National service, a name for the conscription system of some militaries
- Nazism, also known as "National Socialism" in Germany, the ideology held by, amongst many other political parties, the National Socialist German Workers Party
- New Serbia (Нова Србија or Nova Srbija), a moderate nationalist political party in Serbia
- New Slovenia (also known as Nova Slovenija - Krscanski Ljudska Stranka), a right-of-centre political party in Slovenia
- People's Party, a political party in the Republic of Montenegro
In commerce:
- National Semiconductor (also known as "Natsemi"), an American integrated circuit design and manufacturing company
- Nederlandse Spoorwegen, the main public transport railway company in the Netherlands
- Norfolk Southern Railway, a major Class I railroad in the United States, owned by the Norfolk Southern Corporation
- Norfolk Southern Railway (former), the final name of a railroad running in Virginia and North Carolina before its acquisition by the Southern Railway in 1974
In computing and computer gaming:
- Name server, a computer server that implements a name service protocol
- NS record, a DNS record type
- Namespace (computer science), an abstract container used in computing
- Natural Selection (computer game), a mod for the game Half-life
- NetStorm, an RTS published in 1997 by Activision
- NEXTSTEP, an object-oriented, multitasking operating system by NeXT, as well as a prefix for certain system-provided classes in the operating system, such as "NSString"
- ns (simulator) (or "ns-2"), a popular open source network simulator
- Jennifer Government: NationStates, a web-based simulation game
In literature:
- New Spring (known to fans as "NS"), a 1999 anthology edited by Robert Silverberg and derivative 2004 novella by Robert Jordan
- NS-series robots from the book I, Robot
In science and history:
- New Style (as "N.S."), indicating either a date in the Julian Calendar with the start of year adjusted to 1 January or a date in the Gregorian Calendar (see Old Style and New Style dates)
- Nanosecond (abbreviated "ns"), a measure of time
- Normal saline, a solution of sodium chloride used in intravenous drips (see Saline (medicine))
- Nanostructure
- Neutron star, a star formed from the collapsed remnant of a massive star
- No significant difference, when differences between categories are smaller than the amount of error/noise in the data
- Nervous system, the system of neurons that coordinates the actions of an organism
In other areas:
- a ship prefix for civilian ship names meaning "Nuclear Ship"
- a code for "non-smoking" designating that tobacco smoking is not permitted
- in medicine, normal saline
- Narcissistic supply
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