AVS

AVS or Avs may refer to:

People

• AVS (actor), Indian actor and comedian

Sports

• AVS Futebol SAD, an association football club in Vila das Aves, Portugal
• Colorado Avalanche, an NHL hockey team

Schools

• Abbey Vocational School, a secondary school in County Donegal, Ireland
• Amman Valley School, a bilingual (Welsh and English) secondary school in Wales

Science

• American Vacuum Society, a member society of the American Institute of Physics, now known only as AVS
• Angle of Vanishing Stability, the angle at which a boat will capsize
• Acid volatile sulfide

Audio video

• Audio Video Standard, a Chinese multimedia standard
• Auditory Visual Stimulation, a controversial princip of the called Mind machine, or psychowalkman

Hardware

• Adaptive voltage scaling, Adaptive Voltage Scaling as power optimization techniques

Software

• Advanced Visualization Studio, a music visualization plugin for Winamp
• Alexa Voice Service, a cloud-based voice recognition service
• AOL Active Virus Shield, a discontinued free antivirus utility made available by AOL
• AviSynth, a script-based frameserver
• Cisco application virtual switch

Verification systems

• Address verification service, a security measure in credit card processing
• Adult Verification System, a system used by websites to confirm that someone accessing their site is of the age of majority

Other uses

• Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra, known in English as the Greens and Left Alliance, an Italian electoral coalition composed of two political parties: Italian Left and Green Europe.
• American Viola Society, an organization of viola players and enthusiasts
• American Vegan Society, an organization that promotes veganism in the United States
• Atharvaveda, aka Atharvaveda-Shaunakiya, a sacred Hindu text
• AVS-36, Soviet automatic rifle
• Nintendo Advanced Video System, or AVS, the original name for the Nintendo Entertainment System
• A Vampyre Story, the 2007 Autumn Moon Entertainment adventure game
• A US Navy hull classification symbol: Aviation stores issue ship (AVS)