NSS
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NSS is an acronym for:
- Nair Sevice Society: A society for the welfare of people in the nair caste of hindus, mainly in kerala, india.
- Naked Short Selling: Naked Short Selling is the illegal practice of short selling shares that may not even exist. Phantom stocks, ghost longs, and other forms of naked shorts flood the market with unaccounted-for shares, causing a devaluation of the legitimate share price of many companies’ shares.
- Name Service Switch: A technology to make operating systems flexible with respect to different username databases
- National Secular Society
- National Security Strategy of the United States
- National Security Service (Maldives)
- National Security Service (United States) (FBI "Agency within an Agency")
- National Space Society
- National Speleological Society
- National Sport School - High school operated by the Calgary Board of Education in Alberta, Canada
- Negotiation Support System
- Network and Switching Subsystem in GSM
- New Skies Satellites, a Dutch spacecraft operator
- New Star Soccer, a computer game
- Northern Secondary School, A public school belonging to the Toronto District School Board
- Novell Storage Services. A file system used by Novell's Netware Operating System.
- Network Security Services
NSS is also the name of a 1958 chess program by Allen Newell, Cliff Shaw and Herbert Simon.