BSS

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The acronym BSS can refer to several things:

General

• Bernard-Soulier syndrome – a rare blood disorder
• Bishop Strachan School – a private girls school located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Entertainment

• Brave Saint Saturn – a Christian rock band from Denver, Colorado
• Broken Social Scene – a band also from Toronto

Telecommunications

• Base Station Subsystem – an element of GSM mobile telephone networks
• Basic Service Set – the basic building block of IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs (aka Wi-Fi networks)
• Broadcasting Satellite Service – another name for DBS (direct broadcast satellite) satellite television

Computing

• .bss ("Block Started by Symbol"), name of section for uninitialized data used by compilers and linkers

Signal Processing

• Blind signal separation – mathematical and statistical techniques allowing (mostly non-parametric) discrimination between different parts composing mixed data sets

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