STS
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English
Noun
STS (countable and uncountable, plural STSs)
- Initialism of science and technology studies.
- 2012, Stephen H. Cutcliffe, Carl Mitcham, editors, Visions of STS: Counterpoints in Science, Technology, and Society Studies, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 5:
- In the third chapter, Lars Fuglsang, with a sketch of three general approaches to STS in relation to public policy formation, considers two versions of determinism: one in which science and technology shape society, another in which society shapes science and technology.
- (psychology) Initialism of secondary traumatic stress.
- 2017 September 18, Camille Darroux, “How yoga and meditation can help social care workers deal with trauma”, in The Guardian:
- Secondary traumatic stress (STS) is a form of post-traumatic stress disorder that has also been linked to burnouts. For Brendel, mindfulness is a way to simultaneously “mediate the risks and heal the healer”.
- (metallurgy, military, nautical, historical) Initialism of special treatment steel (a type of homogenous armor plate).
Proper noun
STS
- (space flight, historical) Initialism of Space Transportation System (a Space Shuttle program run by NASA).
- (software) Initialism of SharePoint Team Services (the first name given to Microsoft SharePoint Foundation).
- (software) Initialism of Spring Tool Suite.
Translations
Space Transportation System
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