CLS

CLS may refer to:

Education and society

Academic fields

• Critical legal studies, a contentious school of legal philosophy, that emerged from Harvard Law School in the 1980s.
• Critical language studies - the study of language that evolved into critical discourse analysis

Educational institutions

• City of London School (an all-boys school; see also City of London School for Girls.
• Covington Latin School, a high school in Covington, Kentucky

Academic associations, divisions, programs and facilities

• Columbia Law School at Columbia University
• Coalition of Latin@ Scholars at Teachers College, Columbia University
• Canadian Light Source - a synchrotron research facility located at the University of Saskatchewan, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Societies and associations

• Chicago Linguistic Society
• Christian Legal Society

Software

• Common Language Specification an open specification developed by Microsoft that describes the executable code and runtime environment. It defines an environment that allows multiple high-level languages to be used on different computer platforms without being rewritten for specific architectures.
• cls is a command in some operating systems, including MS-DOS, and programming languages, such as BASIC, that clears the screen.
• Call logging system, a transaction logging system or interface.

Occupational terms

• Clinical laboratory scientist, another term for medical technician, a type of healthcare professional.
• Combat lifesaver (or combat medic) US Military Occupational Specialty 68W

Music

• CLS Records, a record label.
• Cory Lee Senn, rapper, leader of The M.O.B.

Medicine

• Capillary leak syndrome
• Coffin-Lowry syndrome, a genetic disorder associated with mental retardation
• Clinical laboratory scientist, another term for medical technician, a type of healthcare professional

Aerospace

• Capsule launch system for space capsules

Business and finance

• Continuous linked settlement, a financial clearing system
• CLS Group of Companies (headquartered in France, but with various divisions, including CLS America)
• Celestica Inc. (New York Stock Exhchange symbol: CLS).

Miscellaneous products

• The Mercedes-Benz CLS-Class, a series of automobile models.
• Canadian lumber sizes - a surfaced timber widely used in building for studding. It has 3mm radius eased edges and consistent dimensions.
• Nikon's Creative Lighting System, a complete lighting solution for Nikon's camera bodies and external light units.