Versus
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Versus, often abbreviated as "v.", "vs" or "vs.", may refer to:
- situations where two parties are opposed to each other in some way, for example at a sporting event. One party is said to be versus another. Versus in this context is synonymous with "against".
- In mash-ups, a genre of music remixes where two songs are mixed together, the two artists are often said to be 'vs' (e.g. Eminem vs Britney Spears)
- legal court cases, allowing court cases to be referred to as one party versus or v. another (the abbreviation vs. is seldom used in legal contexts), for example: "Smith v. Jones." See Glossary of legal terms.
- scientific graph or line charts of two real world variables. The graph is said to plot one variable "versus", or against, another.
In the media
- Versus (TV channel), a United States sports events channel
- Versus (film), a Japanese action film
- Versus (journal), an Italian semiotics journal
- VS., a game show with two opposing teams
- VS (manga), Japanese manga by Keiko Yamada
In music
- Vs. (album), an album by Pearl Jam
- Versus, an album by The White Panda
- Versus (band), an American rock band
- Versus, an album by the Norwegian duo Kings of Convenience
- Versus, an album by Swedish thrash metal/melodic death metal band The Haunted
- Versus, an album by Japanese band Mr. Children
- Vs. (Mission of Burma album)
- Versus, the final track on Velocifero, an album by Ladytron.
- VS (song), a single
- VS (band)
In computers & video games
- Versus programming language, scripting language used with Visual IRC
- VS System (pronounced "Versus System"), system used for collectible card games
- Nintendo Vs. Series (for "versus") a series of arcade video games by Nintendo
- Versus Games (for "versus") a series of 2D or 3D Fighting games where players can face players in 1 vs 1 (Street Fighter) up to 3 vs 3 (kof, CvsS2 and others until now)
- VS Crossovers 2D Fighting games with tag features (switch during the match to a second or third character, as in "Xmen vs Street Fighter")
In liturgy
- Versus populum describes the celebrant's orientation (facing the people) at a Roman Catholic Mass since the post-Vatican II period, as recommended by the Consilium for the Implementation of the Constitution on the Liturgy.
Versus from Final Fantasy