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'SS' is an abbreviation made notorious by its Nazi association

★ Schutzstaffel, a Nazi paramilitary force
Due to almost universal association of this abbreviation with Nazi history many organizations with the same initials refrain from using it. It has, however, many other meanings, including:

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Military

History, government, and social sciences

Transport

Geography

Business and economics

Religion

Sports

Other

Military

★ Special Service, a division of soldiers in British service during World War II (later renamed Commandos)

★ Submarine, for which "SS" is the United States Navy designator

★ Surface-to-surface missile of Soviet/Russian type, as listed by NATO

★ Sea Scout class airship, a class of British airship during World War I

★ Steamboat a boat powered by Steam

History, government, and social sciences

★ Collar of Esses, an ornamental collar in British heraldry

★ Social Studies, a group of academic disciplines that study the human aspects of the world

★ Selective Service, the means by which the United States administers military conscription

★ Social security, a field of social welfare concerned with the fulfillment of socially recognized needs

★ Simplified spelling, the object of spelling reform and campaigning issue of the Simplified Spelling Society

Transport

★ Corsairfly, a Paris-based airline company with IATA airline designator "SS"

★ Super Sport, a performance package offered by Chevrolet

★ SS Cars Ltd, the forerunner of Jaguar

★ Swallow Sidecar Company, the former name of the Jaguar automobile company

★ Sand Springs Railway, which has the Association of American Railroads (AAR) reporting mark "SS"

★ Stockholms Spårvägar, the former public streetcar and bus operating company (1915-66) in Stockholm, Sweden

★ A sports car sold by the Australian Holden Commodore car company

★ Shaoshan, a series of electric locomotives in China railway

Geography

★ Sassari, an Italian province

Business and economics

★ Sláturfélag Suðurlands, an Icelandic company ("Southern Association of Slaughter")

Religion

★ Saints, often abbreviated "SS" in the plural (e.g. "SS Peter and Paul")

★ Sabbath School, part of the weekly Seventh-day Adventist Church service

Sports

★ ''Società Sportiva'' (Italian for "Sport Society"), frequently found as an identifier in the names of Italian sports clubs

★ Shortstop, a defensive position in baseball

★ Strong Safety, a defensive position in American and Canadian football

Other

★ The ß ligature (German letter for double "s")

★ Slave select, a control line for the Serial Peripheral Interface Bus

★ Society of Saint-Sulpice, in that the initials "S.S." after a person's name may indicate membership therein

★ Spread Spectrum, a communications technique (FHSS, DSSS, CDMA), usually used for wireless

★ Sum of squares, a mathematical equation used in statistics