AVS

AVS or Avs may refer to:

Sports

• Colorado Avalanche, an NHL hockey team

Schools

• Abbey Vocational School, a secondary school in County Donegal, Ireland
• Abbotsford Virtual School, a British Columbia Distributed Learning School
• 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

Technology

• Automatic Voltage Stabilizer

Audio video

• Audio Video Standard, a Chinese multimedia standard
• Audio-video stimulation, a controversial princip of the called Mind machine, or psychowalkman

Software

• Advanced Visualization Studio, a music visualization plugin for Winamp
• AOL Active Virus Shield, a discontinued free antivirus utility made available by AOL
• AviSynth, a script-based frameserver
• Adaptive Vision Studio, a software for machine vision engineers

Verification systems

• Address Verification System, 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

• AVS-36, Soviet automatic rifle
• A Vampyre Story, the 2007 Autumn Moon Entertainment adventure game
• Atharvaveda, aka Atharvaveda-Shaunakiya, a sacred Hindu text
• Amanchi Venkata Subrahmanyam, Telugu comedian
• Nintendo Advanced Video System, or AVS, the original name for the Nintendo Entertainment System