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What does VS stand for?

Vertical Slope


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Ventilation des Services (French: Breakdown Services)
Ventilatory Support
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Verenigde Staten (Dutch: United States)
Verification Specification
VeriSign, Inc.
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Versus
Vertebral Subluxation
Vertical Scale
Vertical Speed
Vertical Stabilizer
Very Severe (rock climbing grade)
Very Small Inclusions (3rd lowest quality of diamond)
Very Special (cognac aged at least 2.5 years)
Very Superior (cognac)
Vesaire (Turkish: et cetera)
Vesicular Stomatitis
Veterinary Services (USDA)
Veterinary Surgeon

Samples in periodicals archive:
Nesting on the vertical slopes of the cliff face on the western tip of the island, they only come to land to lay, incubate and hatch their eggs over the warmer summer months before leaving again.
There is an almost vertical slope there and in order to see the entire lake, you have to stand on the edge of a cliff .
Another daredevil member of this elite club is Seattle's own Ingrid Backstrom, who fearlessly dances down a vertical slope with extraordinary grace and skill.
MOOSE MOUNTAIN SKI RESORT, FAIRBANKS AREA Moose Mountain, about 20 minutes from Fairbanks, features more than one, 250 feet of vertical slope, with terrain ranging from a bunny slope to the steep North Slope.
An extreme ski enthusiast, she had broken her back on a near vertical slope a few years ago but had resumed her racing career without the use of her legs.
Planet Earth also shows us snow leopards running fullpelt down an almost vertical slope in pursuit of a mountain goat, and Indonesia's crabeating macaque monkeys, who have taught themselves how to deep-sea dive and hold their breath underwater.
We set foot on the flat, horizontal ground of the valley floor, a welcomed feeling after spending the previous eight hours on the nearly vertical slopes above.
The rescuers abseiled the vertical slope to locate them, and then hauled the students to safety in a gruelling eight-hour operation.

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