Usually means: Process status command in Unix.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. ps: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. PS, Ps, p's, ps: Merriam-Webster
  3. PS, P's, Ps, Ps, ps: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. PS, Ps, ps: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. P's, Ps, ps: Collins English Dictionary
  6. PS: Vocabulary.com
  7. P.S, PS, P's, P.'s, P.s, P.s, Ps, Ps, Ps, p's, ps, pS, pS: Wordnik
  8. PS, p's, ps: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. P.S, PS, P's, Ps, p's, p.s, ps: Wiktionary
  10. P.S, ps: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. P.S: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. PS: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. P.S, PS, Ps, ps: Dictionary.com
  14. P.S: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. p.s, ps: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. P.S, P.S. (A Toad Retrospective), P.S. (Doctor Who), P.S. (album), P.S. (film), PS (disambiguation), PS, PS, P.s, Ps (Unix), Ps, .ps: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Ps: Rhymezone
  18. P.S, PS, Ps, ps: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  19. P.S: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  20. ps: FreeDictionary.org
  21. ps: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. PS, Ps, p's: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. Ps: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. P.s: Legal dictionary
  4. PS, p's: Financial dictionary
  5. PS: WashingtonPost.com: Business

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. PS: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. PS: Netlingo
  3. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  4. SMS Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. PS (horsepower), P.s, Ps, p's, ps: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. ps: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  4. Sleep Terms (No longer online)
  5. p's, ps: Medical dictionary
  6. PERFUSION TECHNOLOGY, OPEN HEART SURGERY AND CARDIOLOGY (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. PS: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. ps: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia
  2. PS: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations
  3. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. P.S, PS, PS, p's: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. PS: Body Building

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. PS: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Agricultural Terms, Programs and Laws (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (linguistics) Initialism of a number of proto-languages' names:
noun:  Proto-Slavic.
noun:  Proto-Semitic.
noun:  Proto-Salish, Proto-Salishan.
noun:  Proto-Sahaptian.
noun:  (computing, file format) PostScript, a page description language.
noun:  (organic chemistry) polystyrene
noun:  metric horsepower
noun:  (video games) Initialism of PlayStation. [(video games, trademark) A video game console of the "PlayStation" brand.]
noun:  (software) Initialism of Photoshop. [(software, trademark) A raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Inc.]
noun:  Initialism of postal service.
noun:  (education) Initialism of public school. [(UK, Ireland, India) Certain private schools, particularly (initially) any grammar school operated apart from the personal lands of its students or (from the 19th century) the feepaying secondary schools which developed from or were modelled upon them; a British boarding school]
noun:  (government) Initialism of public service(s).
noun:  (video games) Initialism of PlayStation. [(video games, trademark) A video game console of the "PlayStation" brand.]
noun:  (nautical) Initialism of paddle steamer. [(nautical) A steam-powered vessel propelled by one or two paddle wheels]
noun:  Initialism of power supply. [Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see power, supply.]
noun:  (law enforcement, Commonwealth) Initialism of police sergeant, a police rank used in Commonwealth countries. [(law enforcement) A rank of law enforcement who supervises officers and handles daily precinct operations.]
noun:  (sports) Initialism of parallel slalom. [(uncountable, skiing) A discipline of alpine skiing, a variant of slalom. A sport where two skiers compete head to head on parallel identical slalom courses.]
noun:  Initialism of post scriptum, postscriptum, postscript. (initialism written at the end of a text as a footnote)
adjective:  (telecommunications) Abbreviation of packet-switched.
noun:  Alternative form of PS (post scriptum). [(linguistics) Initialism of a number of proto-languages' names:]
noun:  (automotive, in classified ads) Abbreviation of power steering. [(automotive) A system for reducing the driver's effort to steer, by using a power source to assist in turning the wheels.]
noun:  (New York City, slang) Abbreviation of projects (“multi-story low-income housing development”). [(US, usually preceded by the) One or more high-density urban housing developments for residents having low incomes.]

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