3-letter words containing s
- tos — the contract for acceptable use of digital media as defined by the developer. Abbreviation: TOS, ToS.
- tps — Tree Pruning System. "An Adaptive Tree Pruning System: A Language for Programming Heuristic Tree Searches", E.W. Kozdrowicki, Proc ACM 23rd Natl Conf 1968.
- trs — term rewriting system
- tsb — (the former) Trustee Savings Bank, now incorporated in Lloyds TSB
- tse — transmissible spongiform encephalopathy: any of a group of degenerative brain diseases, including BSE in cattle, that can be transmitted from one individual or species to another
- tsh — thyroid-stimulating hormone
- tsk — an exclamation of “tsk.”.
- tso — Time Sharing Option
- tsp — travelling salesman problem
- tsr — Terminate and Stay Resident
- tss — toxic shock syndrome
- tsv — tab-separated values
- tts — Text To Speech
- u/s — unserviceable
- ucs — Universal Character Set
- uds — (formerly, in expletives) God
- uis — (graphics, programming) A VMS graphics programming interface package for VAXstations.
- uns — unnilseptium
- ups — to, toward, or in a more elevated position: to climb up to the top of a ladder.
- usa — The USA is an abbreviation for the United States of America.
- usb — 1. (architecture) Universal Serial Bus. 2. (communications) Upper Side-Band modulation.
- use — to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife.
- usk — a river flowing S and SE from SE Wales through SW England into the Severn estuary. 60 miles (97 km) long.
- usl — 1. Query language, close to natural English. 2. User System Language. Bellcore, "Operations Technology Generic Requirements: User System Interface", TR-825. 3. Unix System Laboratories: the software subsidiary of AT&T, responsible for Unix System V and related software.
- usm — Unlisted Securities Market
- usn — USN is an abbreviation for United States Navy.
- uso — United Service Organization
- usp — unique sales point
- usr — U.S. Robotics, Inc.
- uss — United States Senate
- usw — ultrashort wave
- uys — Pieter-Dirk. born 1945, South African comedian and satirist, noted for creating the female character Evita Bezuidenhout
- vas — a vessel or duct.
- vfs — Virtual Firing Squad
- vhs — 1. Very High Speed. 2. storage Video Home System. JVC's video cassette format. 3. Virtual Host Storage.
- vis — strength; force; power.
- vks — Virginia Ki Society
- vms — Virtual Memory System
- vns — Vagal Nerve Stimulator
- vos — (operating system) An operating system used in Stratus computers. See also FTX.
- vs. — vs. is a written abbreviation for versus.
- vsb — vestigial sideband: a transmission in an amplitude-modulated signal in which one complete sideband is transmitted, but only part of the other
- vse — Virtual Storage Extended
- vsf — Virtual Software Factory
- vsg — Variable Surface Glycoprotein
- vsm — Vascular Smooth Muscle
- vso — VSO is a British organization that sends skilled people to developing countries to work on projects that help the local community. VSO is an abbreviation for 'Voluntary Service Overseas'.
- vsp — Very Simple Prolog+.
- vsr — Vancouver Street Racing
- vsx — Verification Suite for X/open.