UPS

See also: ups

English

Noun

UPS (countable and uncountable, plural UPSes)

1. (electronics) Initialism of uninterruptible power supply/source.
2. Initialism of ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy.
3. (biochemistry) Initialism of ubiquitin-proteasome system.

Translations

(initialism) uninterruptible power supply

Catalan: SAI m French: ASI (fr) f, ASSC f Galician: SAI m German: USV (de) f Polish: UPS (pl) m Spanish: SAI m

See also

• XPS

Verb

UPS (third-person singular simple present UPSes, present participle UPSing, simple past and past participle UPSed)

1. (electronics, nonstandard, transitive) To connect a device to an uninterruptible power supply.

   If you don't want to lose all your data when the power goes out, you should UPS your computer.

Proper noun

UPS

1. Initialism of United Parcel Service.
   • 2025 March 3, Nico Lang, ““Simply Trying to Exist”: How Trans Americans Are Navigating the Confusion and Chaos of Trump’s Passport Policy”, in Them‎:

     When C.J. Parker got his new passport in the mail, he was initially in disbelief. Parker thought that the contents of the UPS envelope that he had opened must have been a mistake: The 27-year-old’s corrected birth certificate and a court order certifying his name and gender change had seemingly been destroyed.

2. (Philippines, chiefly Parañaque) Initialism of United Parañaque Subdivision: several subdivisions in barangays San Martin De Porres, San Isidro, BF Homes, and Marcelo Green Village, in Parañaque, Metro Manila, Philippines.

Derived terms

• UPSer

Anagrams

• 'sup, PSU, PUS, PUs, SUP, Sup., USP, psu, pus, sup, sup.