Ems or EMS may refer to:

Places and rivers

Domat/Ems Domat/Ems ( ; ) is a municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the Imboden Region in the Switzerland, Swiss Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Graubünden. History Domat/Ems is first mentioned in 765 as ''colonia de Amede''. Ems is the Ger ...

, a Swiss municipality in the canton of Grisons *

Ems (river) The Ems ( ; ) is a river in northwestern Germany. It runs through the states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony, and discharges into the Dollart Bay which is part of the Wadden Sea. Its total length is . The state border between the Lo ...

(Eems), a river in northwestern Germany and northeastern Netherlands that discharges in the Dollart Bay * Ems (Eder), a river of Hesse, Germany, a tributary of the Eder * River Ems (Chichester Harbour), an English river with its mouth at Emsworth, Hampshire *

Bad Ems Bad Ems () is a town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Rhein-Lahn rural district and is well known as a spa on the river Lahn. Bad Ems was the seat of Bad Ems collective municipality, which has been merged i ...

, a German town in Rhineland-Palatinate, until 1913 named Ems

Businesses

* Eastern Mountain Sports, an outdoor retailer * Eitzen Maritime Services, a Norwegian company * Electronic Music Studios, a manufacturer of synthesizers *

Elektromreža Srbije Elektromreža Srbije (abbr. EMS; sr-Cyrl, Електромрежа Србије) is a Serbian national transmission system operator company with the headquarters in Belgrade, Serbia. It was founded in 2005 after being split from Elektroprivreda ...

, a Serbian electric utility company * Event Marketing Solutions, a UK-based provider of vehicle-based marketing roadshows * Ems-Chemie, Swiss chemical company * EMS (pharmaceuticals), a Brazilian pharmaceutical company * EMS Recordings, a 1949–1952 American experimental-music record label * EMS Technologies, an American company

Organizations

Edinburgh Mathematical Society The Edinburgh Mathematical Society is a mathematical society for academics in Scotland. History The Society was founded in 1883 by a group of Edinburgh school teachers and academics, on the initiative of Alexander Yule Fraser FRSE and Andrew ...

Environmental Media Services Environmental Media Services (EMS) is a Washington, D.C.–based nonprofit organization that is "dedicated to expanding media coverage of critical environmental and public health issues". EMS was founded in 1994 by Arlie Schardt, a former journ ...

, an American nonprofit organization * Estonian Mathematical Society *

European Monetary System The European Monetary System (EMS) was a multilateral adjustable exchange rate agreement in which most of the nations of the European Economic Community (EEC) linked their currencies to prevent large fluctuations in relative value. It was initi ...

, a former European monetary cooperation *

European Mathematical Society The European Mathematical Society (EMS) is a European organization dedicated to the development of mathematics in Europe. Its members are different mathematical societies in Europe, academic institutions and individual mathematicians. The curren ...

Schools

United States

* Eagleview Middle School, El Paso County, Colorado * Eastern Middle School, Montgomery County, Maryland *

Elwood Middle School Elwood Union Free School District is a public school district in New York, United States. It serves residents in the hamlet of Elwood. The district includes one primary school, which teaches Kindergarten to 2nd grade ( Harley Avenue Primary ...

, New York *

Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences The College of Earth and Mineral Sciences is a constituent, semi-autonomous part of Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pennsylvania. The College was founded in 1896 as a School of Mines, but, over time, diversified becoming the ...

(commonly referred to as EMS), part of Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania *

Eastern Mennonite School Eastern Mennonite School (EMS) is a K-12 private school in Harrisonburg, Virginia. It is affiliated with the Virginia Mennonite Conference of Mennonite Church USA The Mennonite Church USA (MC USA) is an Anabaptist Christian denomination in th ...

, Harrisonburg, Virginia *

Eastern Mennonite Seminary Eastern Mennonite Seminary (EMS) is the graduate theological division of Eastern Mennonite University (EMU), which is an accredited Christian liberal arts university in Harrisonburg, Virginia. EMU was established as Eastern Mennonite College in 19 ...

, Harrisonburg, Virginia

Elsewhere

Earl Marriott Secondary School Earl Marriott Secondary (EMS) is a public high school in the Vancouver suburb of Surrey, British Columbia, Canada and is part of School District 36 Surrey. It is referred to as the 'Home of the Mariners'. It is located on the edge of city limits, ...

, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada *

English Martyrs School and Sixth Form College The English Martyrs Catholic School and Sixth Form College is a secondary school and sixth form college located in Hartlepool with academy status. English Martyrs (referred to locally as "EMS" and "Martyrs") is the only Catholic secondary sch ...

, Hartlepool, County Durham, England *

Exeter Mathematics School Exeter Mathematics School is a maths school located in Exeter in the English county of Devon. It opened in September 2014 under the free schools initiative and is sponsored by Exeter College and the University of Exeter. It is intended to b ...

, Exeter, Devon, England *

EM Strasbourg Business School EM Strasbourg Business School is a French business school located in Strasbourg, Alsace. It was established in 1919. History In 1919, at the initiative of the Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie (CCI), the Institut d'Etudes Supérieures Spéci ...

, Strasbourg, France

Science and technology

Physics, chemistry, and biology

Electromagnetic suspension Electromagnetic suspension (EMS) is the magnetic levitation of an object achieved by constantly altering the strength of a magnetic field produced by electromagnets using a feedback loop. In most cases the levitation effect is mostly due to perma ...

, a method to suspend an object *

Electromagnetic spectrum The electromagnetic spectrum is the full range of electromagnetic radiation, organized by frequency or wavelength. The spectrum is divided into separate bands, with different names for the electromagnetic waves within each band. From low to high ...

, is the range of all possible electromagnetic radiation *

Ethyl methanesulfonate Ethyl methanesulfonate (EMS) is an organosulfur compound with the formula . It is the ethyl ester of methanesulfonic acid. A colorless liquid, it is classified as an alkylating agent. EMS is the most commonly used chemical mutagen in experimenta ...

(or methanesulfonic acid ethyl ester), a mutagen *

European macroseismic scale The European Macroseismic Scale (EMS) is the basis for evaluation of seismic intensity in European countries and is also used in a number of countries outside Europe. Issued in 1998 as an update of the test version from 1992, the scale is referred ...

, a scale used when measuring earthquakes intensity * Environmental Mutagen Society

Computer and engineering

Electronics manufacturing services Electronics manufacturing services (EMS) is a term used for companies that design, manufacture, test, distribute, and provide return/repair services for electronic components and assemblies for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). The concept ...

, a type of company *

Electronic meeting system An electronic meeting system (EMS) is a type of computer software that facilitates creative problem solving and decision-making of groups within or across organizations. The term was coined by Alan R. Dennis et al. in 1988. The term is synonymous w ...

, a collaborative computer software * Element management system, software to monitor and control network elements (devices) in telecommunications * Emergency Management Services, a part of MS-Windows * Energy management software, software to monitor and optimize energy consumption in buildings or communities *

Energy management system An energy management system (EMS) is a system of computer-aided tools used by operators of electric public utility, utility electric power transmission, grids to monitor, control, and optimize the performance of the electricity generation, gener ...

, a system to control, monitor, and optimize the generation and flow of Electric Power * Engine management system, see

engine control unit An engine control unit (ECU), also called an engine control module (ECM), is a device that controls various subsystems of an internal combustion engine. Systems commonly controlled by an ECU include the fuel injection and ignition systems. The ...

* Enhanced Messaging Service, an extension to Short Message Service (SMS) for mobile phone *

Expanded Memory Specification In DOS memory management, expanded memory is a system of bank switching that provided additional memory to DOS programs beyond the limit of conventional memory (640 KiB). ''Expanded memory'' is an umbrella term for several incompatible tech ...

, a memory specification for x86 PCs supported by DOS etc. *

Enterprise messaging system An enterprise messaging system (EMS) or messaging system in brief is a set of published enterprise-wide standards that allows organizations to send semantically precise messages between computer systems. EMS systems promote loosely coupled archi ...

, a middleware system for sending messages between two or more clients * Execution management system, a trading system with a user interface for market data, indicators and order entry

Medical and veterinary

Emergency medical services Emergency medical services (EMS), also known as ambulance services, pre-hospital care or paramedic services, are emergency services that provide urgent pre-hospital treatment and stabilisation for serious illness and injuries and transport to d ...

, a service providing out-of-hospital acute care and transport *

Emergency Hospital Service During Home front during World War II, World War II, a centralised state-run Emergency Hospital Service was established in the United Kingdom.Paul Addison, "The Road to 1945", Jonathan Cape, 1975, pp. 178–81. It employed doctors and nurses to ca ...

, also known as the Emergency Medical Service, which provided centralised state-run medical care in World War II Britain * Eosinophilia–myalgia syndrome, a neurological condition *

Electrical muscle stimulation Electrical muscle stimulation (EMS), also known as neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) or electromyostimulation, is the elicitation of muscle contraction using electrical impulses. EMS has received attention for various reasons: it can b ...

, a type of medical therapy, also referred to as ''Electro Myo-Stimulation'', a technique used in sports training and rehabilitation * Equine metabolic syndrome, a horse disease

Other science and technology

* Earthen manure storage, structures for the storage of liquid livestock manure *

Environmental management system An environmental management system (EMS) is "a system which integrates policy, procedures and processes for training of personnel, monitoring, summarizing, and reporting of specialized environmental performance information to internal and external ...

, part of a management system of an organization similar to a quality management system * Engine monitoring system, data logging, display and alerting device, a simpler form of an aircraft engine-indicating and crew-alerting system * Expected mean squares, in statistics

Other uses

* ''Ems'' (ship), an 1893 British iron sailing ship * Express Mail Service, an international express postal service offered by members of the Universal Postal Union * Experimental Music Studios, computer music center at the University of Illinois * E. M. S. Namboodiripad (1909–1998), Indian communist leader * A US Navy hull classification symbol: Expeditionary medical ship (EMS)