OBS

OBS or obs. may refer to:

Organisations

• Office of Boating Safety, the division of Transport Canada responsible for boating safety
• Optus Broadband Satellite, a satellite broadband service offered by the Australian ISP Optus
• Orange Belt Stages, a bus company based in California, US
• Orange Business Services, a worldwide business communications company
• Organization for Black Struggle, an activist organization in St. Louis, Missouri, US
• Coop Obs!, a chain of hypermarkets in Norway, formerly known as Obs
• Outward Bound School; See Outward Bound
  • Outward Bound Singapore, part of the network of Outward Bound centres
• Océ Business Services, the outsourcing business of Océ
• Oporto British School, a school in northern Portugal

Science and technology

• Organic brain syndrome, a medical condition resulting from brain injury
• Omnidirectional bearing selector, an aircraft navigation instrument; See VHF omnidirectional range
• Obstetrics and gynaecology, commonly abbreviated Obs/Gyn
• Ocean-bottom seismometer, a seismic tool to record earthquakes underwater
• Old Body Style, a colloquial name for the fourth generation Chevrolet C/K /GMC Sierra pickup truck (GMT400) manufactured between 1988 and 2000

Computing

• OBS Studio, an open source streaming and recording program
• Open Build Service, a software distribution development platform
• Optical burst switching, a switching technology in optical networks

Television, film, and music

• One Buck Short, a punk-rock band from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
• "Orange Blossom Special" (song), bluegrass song written by Ervin T. Rouse

Broadcasters

• OBS (South Korean broadcaster), a broadcast television station based in Bucheon, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
• Oita Broadcasting System, a broadcasting station in Ōita Prefecture, Japan
• Olympic Broadcasting Services, an organization responsible for the broadcast of the Olympic Games since 2010 Vancouver Winter Games

Publications

• OBS! (magazine), Swedish business and political magazine
• L'Obs, French news magazine
• On Basilisk Station, the first novel in David Weber's Honor Harrington series

Business

• Off-balance-sheet, financing activity not on the company's balance sheet
• Organisation breakdown structure, a global hierarchy that represents the different levels of responsibility within a project or enterprise

Other uses

• Operation Blue Star
• Original British Standard, a bullhead rail profile

See also

• OBSS (disambiguation)