MDS

MDS or M.D.S. may refer to:

Organizations

• Brazilian Ministry of Social Development, former name of a federal ministry in Brazil
• Mennonite Disaster Service, a disaster relief volunteer group
• Movement for Socialist Democracy (Mouvement pour la Démocratie Socialiste), a former political party in Burkina Faso
• Movement of Socialist Democrats (Mouvement des Démocrates Socialistes), a political party in Tunisia

Companies

• MDS America, a telecommunications company
• MDS Inc., a healthcare company
• Microwave Data Systems, a wireless modem company
• Mohawk Data Sciences Corporation, a computer company

Science and technology

• Minimum detectable signal, a measure of sensitivity
• Molybdenum disulfide, a compound added to some plastics to make parts more slippery
• Multi-Displacement System, a Chrysler automobile technology

Computing

• .mds, a file extension associated with disk image descriptions
• MDS 2400, a computer
• Mandriva Directory Server, an LDAP server
• Microsoft SQL Server Master Data Services, a database management product
• mds, a daemon in macOS Spotlight
• Microarchitectural Data Sampling, a set of vulnerabilities in Intel processors
• Cisco MDS, a line of Fibre Channel switches

Medicine

• Main dressing station, a larger military field hospital
• Miller–Dieker syndrome, a neurological disorder
• Minimum Data Set, information collected for US Medicare/Medicaid assessment
• Myelodysplastic syndrome, one of a group of cancers

Mathematics

• Martingale difference sequence, in probability theory
• Maximum distance separable code, in mathematical coding theory
• Multidimensional scaling, a statistical technique

Transport

• Meridian Southern Railway, in Mississippi, US
• Middle Caicos Airport (IATA code), Turks and Caicos Islands
• Morden South railway station (National Rail station code), London, England

Other uses

• MDs (TV series), a 2002 American medical drama
• Marathon des Sables (MdS), an ultramarathon held in Morocco
• Master of Computer Science, a master's degree in North America
• Master of Dental Surgery
• Mission Design Series, a United States Department of Defense aerospace vehicle designation
• Miriam Defensor Santiago (1945–2016), former senator of the Philippines

See also

• MD (disambiguation)