In Science
- Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, or Saffir-Simpson Scale, a system for measuring intensity of tropical cyclones
- Sea surface salinity
- Sign Systems Studies, a semiotics journal
- Silent sinus syndrome, a collapse of the maxillary sinus and orbital floor associated with negative sinus pressures
- Strict sense stationarity
- Sweden Solar System, the world's largest scale model of the solar system
- Super Soft Source or Super soft X-ray source
- Side Scan Sonar, a category of sonar system used to efficiently create images of large areas of the sea floor
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