versus

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Versus, often abbreviated to vs or vs., may refer to:

• situations where two parties are opposed to each other in some way, for example at a sporting event. One party is said to be versus another. Versus in this context is synonymous with "against".
• In Mash-ups, a genre of music remixes where two songs are mixed together, the two artists are often said to be 'vs' (e.g. Eminem vs Britney Spears)
• legal court cases, allowing court cases to be referred to as one party versus or v. (the abbreviation vs. is seldom used) another, such as "Smith v. Jones". See Glossary of legal terms
• scientific graph or line charts of two real world variables. The graph is said to plot one variable "versus", or against, another.

Media

• Versus (TV channel), a United States sports events channel
• Versus (film), a Japanese action film
• Versus (journal), an Italian semiotics journal
• VS., a game show with two opposing teams
• VS., The Versus Anthology, a literature anthology
• VS (manga), Japanese manga by Keiko Yamada

In Music

• Vs. (album), an album by Pearl Jam
• Versus (band), an American rock band
• Versus, an album by the Norwegian duo Kings of Convenience
• Versus, an album by Swedish thrash metal/melodic death metal band The Haunted
• Versus, an album by Japanese band Mr. Children
• Vs. (Mission of Burma album)
• Versus, the final track on Velocifero, an album by Ladytron.
• VS (song), a single
• VS (band)

In Electronics & Video Games

• Versus programming language, scripting language used with Visual IRC
• Versus Books, a brand of video game strategy guides active from 1996 to 2003
• VS System (pronounced "Versus System"), system used for collectible card games
• Nintendo Vs. Series (for "versus") a series of arcade video games by Nintendo®
• Versus website forum or portal specialized in providing technical guidance to vs games (see below)
• Versus Games (for "versus") a series of 2D or 3D Fighting games where players can face players in 1 vs 1 (Street Fighter) up to 3 vs 3 (kof, CvsS2 and others until now)
• VS Crossovers 2D Fighting games with tag features (switch during the match to a second or third character, as in "Xmen vs Street Fighter")

Liturgy

• Versus populum describes the celebrant's orientation (facing the people) at a Roman Catholic Mass since the post-Vatican II period, as recommended by the Consilium for the Implementation of the Constitution on the Liturgy.

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