POS

Look up POS, pos, or pòs in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

POS, Pos or PoS may refer to:

Business

• Point of sale, the location where a business transaction occurs
  • POS terminal, a device by which sales transactions can be directly debited to the customer's bank account

Health and medicine

• Point of service plan, a type of health insurance in which patients choose their doctor and he/she will be their "point of service"
• Polycystic ovary syndrome, a disease of the ovaries

Linguistics

• Part of speech, the role that a word or phrase plays in a sentence
• Piece of shit, a profanity saying something is of poor quality or broken, can also refer to a contemptible person
• POS, Sayula Popoluca (ISO 639-3 language code), an indigenous language spoken in Veracruz, Mexico

Music

• P.O.S, Stefan Alexander (b. 1981), a musical artist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Pain of Salvation, a Swedish progressive metal band
• Paavo Siljamäki, a Finnish trance musician
• Posdnuos, Kelvin Mercer (b. 1969), a hip-hop artist from New York, best known for being one-third of the hip hop trio De La Soul

Places

• Port of Spain, Capital of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago

Technology

Software

• P/OS, the Professional Operating System sold by Digital Equipment Corporation for their PRO-300, PRO-350, and PRO-380 PDP-11-compatible line of personal computers
• Packet over SONET/SDH, a communications protocol for transferring packets over fiber networks
• Perq Operating System, operating system for PERQ workstations
• Proceedings of Science, an electronic publishing service for proceedings of scientific conferences

Transportation

• Piarco International Airport (IATA airport code)
• Pomona (Amtrak station), California, United States; Amtrak station code POS
• Post Office Sorting Van, a type of rail vehicle used in a Travelling Post Office train
• SNCF TGV POS, a French high-speed train

Other uses

• Phi Omega Sigma (disambiguation), a Greek name for 5 different student organizations
• Priory of Sion, a fictitious secret society
• Product of Sums, a canonical form in boolean algebra
• Public open space in planning

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