APS

Initialism of Adult Protective Services (“social services provided to abused, neglected, or exploited older adults and adults with significant disabilities”).

Proper noun

  1. Initialism of Adult Protective Services (“social services provided to abused, neglected, or exploited older adults and adults with significant disabilities”).
  2. Initialism of Advanced Photon Source (“a synchrotron X-ray source at Argonne National Laboratory”).
    • Of the 30 known protein structures, 21 were solved at the APS. - 2015 October 1, Kathy Liszewski, “Dissecting the Structure of Membrane Proteins”, in Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, page 14:
  3. Initialism of Australian Public Service (“the Australian federal civil service”).
  4. Abbreviation of Army Public Schools and Colleges System.
  5. Abbreviation of Abbottabad Public School.

Noun

  1. Initialism of active protection system.
  2. Initialism of antiphospholipid syndrome.
  3. Initialism of argument from poverty of the stimulus.