HS

Look up Hs or HS in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

HS or Hs can stand for:

Businesses and brands

  • HS Produkt, a Croatian firearms manufacturer
  • Helsingin Sanomat, a newspaper in Finland
  • Hawker Siddeley, aircraft manufacturing group
  • Henschel & Son, in aircraft prefixes; e.g., Hs 117
  • Head & Shoulders or H&S, a shampoo brand
  • Harris Scarfe and HS Home, a chain of Australian department stores

Science and technology

Chemistry

  • Hassium, symbol Hs, a chemical element
  • Bisulfide, HS, a chemical compound derived from H2S
  • Mercapto radical, HS, a radical molecule
  • Hun stuff (a World War I name for mustard gas)

Medicine

  • hs, medical abbreviation for "hours of sleep"
  • h.s., medical abbreviation for the Latin phrase hora somni ("at bedtime")
  • Hereditary spherocytosis, a genetic disorder marked by hemolytic anemia
  • Hidradenitis suppurativa, a skin condition affecting apocrine sweat glands and hair follicles

Other uses in science and technology

  • '.hs', the Haskell programming language's typical filename extension
  • Heat sink
  • Higman–Sims group, in mathematics
  • Hypothetical syllogism, a proof rule in classical logic
  • Horizon scanning, a method from futures studies

Vehicles

  • Curtiss HS, an American patrol flying boat
  • Lexus HS, a Japanese compact hybrid sedan
  • MG HS, a Chinese-British compact SUV
  • YTHS HS, a Chinese unmanned aerial vehicle series

Other uses

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