3-letter words that end in s
- -'s — -'s is added to nouns to form possessives. However, with plural nouns ending in '-s', and sometimes with names ending in '-s', you form the possessive by adding -'.
- -es — forming the plural of nouns ending in the sounds ( (s) ; s) ), (; z) ; z) ), (; ʃ) ; sh) ), and (; tʃ) ; ch) ): an apostrophe can then be added to form the possessive plural
- a/s — after sight
- aas — basaltic lava having a rough surface.
- abs — Abs are the same as abdominals.
- acs — American Cancer Society
- ads — Aion Development System
- aes — any of various early forms of bronze or copper money used in ancient Rome. Compare as2 (def 1).
- afs — Andrew File System
- ahs — Plural form of ah.
- ais — Australian Institute of Sport
- als — autograph letter signed
- ams — Additional Member System: a voting system in which some candidates are elected for geographic constituencies and others are elected by proportional representation using party lists. The voter has two votes: one for a party and the other for a candidate in a constituency
- ans — answer
- aos — 1. (programming) /aws/ (East Coast), /ay-os/ (West Coast) A PDP-10 instruction that took any memory location and added 1 to it. AOS meant "Add One and do not Skip". Why, you may ask, does the "S" stand for "do not Skip" rather than for "Skip"? Ah, here was a beloved piece of PDP-10 folklore. There were eight such instructions: AOSE added 1 and then skipped the next instruction if the result was Equal to zero; AOSG added 1 and then skipped if the result was Greater than 0; AOSN added 1 and then skipped if the result was Not 0; AOSA added 1 and then skipped Always; and so on. Just plain AOS didn't say when to skip, so it never skipped. For similar reasons, AOJ meant "Add One and do not Jump". Even more bizarre, SKIP meant "do not SKIP"! If you wanted to skip the next instruction, you had to say "SKIPA". Likewise, JUMP meant "do not JUMP"; the unconditional form was JUMPA. However, hackers never did this. By some quirk of the 10's design, the JRST (Jump and ReSTore flag with no flag specified) was actually faster and so was invariably used. Such were the perverse mysteries of assembler programming. 2. (operating system) /A-O-S/ or /A-os/ A Multics-derived operating system supported at one time by Data General. A spoof of the standard AOS system administrator's manual ("How to Load and Generate your AOS System") was created, issued a part number, and circulated as photocopy folklore; it was called "How to Goad and Levitate your CHAOS System". 3. (operating system) Algebraic Operating System, in reference to those calculators which use infix operators instead of postfix notation.
- aps — Advanced Photo System
- ars — Plural form of ar.
- ass — An ass is an animal which is related to a horse but which is smaller and has long ears.
- ats — Attribute Translation System
- aus — Australia (international car registration)
- avs — Application Visualisation System
- aws — automatic warning system: a train safety system which gives audible warnings about the signals being passed, and can apply the brakes automatically if necessary
- b/s — bags
- bas — the second letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- bbs — be back soon
- bcs — Bachelor of Computer Science
- bds — bundles
- bes — an ancient Egyptian god represented as a grotesque hairy dwarf: the patron of music and pleasure
- bhs — (in Britain) British Horse Society
- bis — twice; for a second time (used in musical scores to indicate a part to be repeated)
- bks — barracks
- bls — (in the US) Bureau of Labor Statistics
- bos — 1. (operating system) Basic Operating System. 2. (tool) A data management system written at DESY and used in some high energy physics programs. 3. (programming) The Basic Object System.
- bps — bps is a measurement of the speed at which computer data is transferred, for example by a modem. bps is an abbreviation for 'bits per second'.
- bqs — Berkeley Quality Software
- brs — Big Red Switch
- bss — British Standards Specification
- bts — bug tracking system
- bus — A bus is a large motor vehicle which carries passengers from one place to another. Buses drive along particular routes, and you have to pay to travel in them.
- cas — Court of Arbitration for Sport
- cbs — Columbia Broadcasting System
- ccs — carbon capture and storage
- cds — credit default swap
- cfs — CFS is an abbreviation for chronic fatigue syndrome.
- cgs — Chief of General Staff
- cis — cisgender or cissexual: He may not be macho, but he's definitely a cis male.
- cms — (programming) A code management system from DEC.
- cns — central nervous system
- cos — one of the Greek Dodecanese Islands in the SE Aegean Sea, off the SW coast of Turkey. 111 sq. mi. (287 sq. km).
- cps — cycles per second
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