POS

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POS or PoS may mean:

• Point of sale. A POS device enables an efficient recording of the data that comprises a business transaction when the sale of goods or services to the customer occurs.
• EFTPOS or POS Terminal is a device by which sales transactions can be directly debited to the customer's bank account
• Procure On Site, relating to contact information or accessories
• programmable option select, the predecessor to plug-and-play
• Colloquially, "piece of shit" (considered vulgar)
• Part of speech, the role that a word (or sometimes a phrase) plays in a sentence.
• POS Plan Point of Service Plan, A type of Medical Insurance - patients choose their doctor and he/she will be their "point of service" - similar to an HMO, but is more flexible.
• Parents Over Shoulder, signifying to people in chat rooms or instant message conversations that someone's parents are behind them and to watch what is said.
• Packet over SONET/SDH, a communications protocol for transferring packets over fiber networks
• 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.
• Post Office Sorting van, a type of rail vehicle used in a Travelling Post Office train
• P.O.S., a hip-hop artist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
• Pain of Salvation, a Swedish progressive metal band.
• POS is the IATA code for the Port of Spain Piarco International Airport.
• TGV POS, a French high-speed train.

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