MFS may refer to:

Education

Maryknoll Fathers' School Maryknoll Fathers' School is an aided (government funded) co-educational school in Tai Hang Tung Estate, Tai Hang Tung, Kowloon, Hong Kong. The school was founded in 1957 by the Maryknoll Society, Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers. The school's me ...

, a government-funded co-ed in Hong Kong SAR, P.R.C. * Master of Forensic Sciences, a specialized professional degree *

Miletich Fighting Systems Miletich Fighting Systems (MFS) was a mixed martial arts (MMA) training organization. It was recognized as an excellent training camp. It has been the training camp for fighters such as Matt Hughes, Tim Sylvia, Jens Pulver, Robbie Lawler, an ...

, a mixed martial arts training camp founded by Pat Miletich *

Moorestown Friends School Moorestown Friends School (MFS) is a private, coeducational Quaker day school in Moorestown, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2019–20 school year, the school had an enrollment of 652 students (plus 43 in PreK) and 74.5 classroom teachers ...

, a private Quaker school located in Moorestown, New Jersey *

Moscow Finnish School The Moscow Finnish School (MFS, , MSP) is a Finnish-education private school in Lomonosovsky District, South-Western Administrative Okrug, Moscow, Russia, operated by the Finnish School Association. The school uses Finnish as its language of in ...

, a Finnish private school in Russia

Organizations

* Metropolitan Fire Service, South Australia's government-funded fire service *

Stasi The Ministry for State Security (, ; abbreviated MfS), commonly known as the (, an abbreviation of ), was the Intelligence agency, state security service and secret police of East Germany from 1950 to 1990. It was one of the most repressive pol ...

, or Ministry for State Security (''Ministerium für Staatssicherheit''), the security and intelligence organisation of the German Democratic Republic *

Syriac Military Council The Syriac Military Council (, MFS; ) is an Assyrian people, Assyrian military organisation in Syria, part of the Syrian Democratic Forces. The establishment of the organisation was announced on 8 January 2013. According to the Syriac Military Co ...

(ܡܘܬܒܐ ܦܘܠܚܝܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ, ''Mawtbo Fulhoyo Suryoyo'')

Technology

Metropolitan Fiber Systems MFS Communications Company, Inc. (Metropolitan Fiber Systems) was a competitive local exchange carrier that owned and operated local network access facilities installed in and around major U.S. cities and several major European cities. MFS also ...

, a telecommunications service provider acquired by WorldCom in 1997 * Mobile financial services, a term used in Mobile banking *Misfiring system or

antilag system The anti-lag system (ALS) is a method of reducing turbo lag or effective compression used on turbocharged engines to minimize turbo lag on racing or performance cars. It works by retarding the ignition timing and adding extra fuel (and sometimes a ...

, a system used on turbocharged cars to cure turbo lag

Filesystems

Macintosh File System Macintosh File System (MFS) is a volume format (or disk file system) created by Apple Computer for storing files on 400K floppy disks. MFS was introduced with the original Apple Macintosh computer in January 1984. MFS is notable both for in ...

, disk file system created by Apple Computer for storing files on 400K floppy disks *

MINIX file system MINIX is a Unix-like operating system based on a microkernel architecture, first released in 1987 and written by American-Dutch computer scientist Andrew S. Tanenbaum. It was designed as a clone of the Unix operating system and one that could r ...

, the native file system of the Minix operating system * Media FileSystem, the filesystem used by TiVo *

Moose File System Moose File System (MooseFS) is an open-source, POSIX-compliant distributed file system developed by Core Technology. MooseFS aims to be fault-tolerant, highly available, highly performing, scalable general-purpose network distributed file system ...

, an open-source distributed file system

Science

*Material Flow System, a term used in

material flow analysis Material flow analysis (MFA), also referred to as substance flow analysis (SFA), is an analytical method to quantify flows and stocks of materials or substances in a well-defined system. MFA is an important tool to study the bio-physical aspects of ...

, also can be a subsystem in various automated warehouse solutions (example:

SAP EWM SAP EWM is part of SAP AG's Supply Chain Management Suite of solutions. The Extended Warehouse Management product is an integrated software platform for flexible, automated support for processing goods movements and managing inventory in the war ...

) *

Maximum flooding surface In sequence stratigraphy, a maximum flooding surface is the surface that marks the transition from a transgression to a regression. Maximum flooding surfaces are abbreviated by mfs, synonyms for them include final transgressive surface, surface of ...

, the surface that marks the transition from a transgression to a regression *

Miller Fisher syndrome A miller is a person who operates a mill, a machine to grind a grain (for example corn or wheat) to make flour. Milling is among the oldest of human occupations. "Miller", "Milne" and other variants are common surnames, as are their equivalents ...

, a rare nerve disease, a variant of Guillain–Barré syndrome *

Marfan syndrome Marfan syndrome (MFS) is a multi-systemic genetic disorder that affects the connective tissue. Those with the condition tend to be tall and thin, with dolichostenomelia, long arms, legs, Arachnodactyly, fingers, and toes. They also typically ha ...

, a genetic disorder affecting connective tissue *

Major Facilitator Superfamily The major facilitator superfamily (MFS) is a Protein superfamily, superfamily of membrane transport proteins that facilitate movement of small solutes across cell membranes in response to chemiosmosis, chemiosmotic gradients. Function The major ...

, a family of related proteins involved in active transport of solutes across a membrane *''

Modern Fiction Studies ''Modern Fiction Studies'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1955 at Purdue University's Department of English, where it is still edited. It publishes general and themed issues on the topic of modernist and contemporary fiction u ...

'', an academic journal

Other

MFS (label) MFS (Masterminded For Success) is an independent electronic dance music label from Berlin, Germany. Founded by Mark Reeder in 1990, it initially ran until 2008, when Reeder put the label on ice to concentrate on his own music production and remixe ...

, a former German based trance label *

MFS 2000 Inc MFS Ammunition, formerly known as MFS 2000 Inc, is a Hungary, Hungarian ammunition manufacturer located in Sirok.http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/United_States_Army_suspends_ammo_contract_for_Afghan_security_forces Wikinews, Friday, March 28, 2008, Retr ...

, a Hungarian ammunition manufacturer located in Sirok *

MFS Investment Management MFS Investment Management (MFS) is an American-based global investment manager, formerly known as Massachusetts Financial Services. Founded in 1924, MFS is one of the oldest asset management companies in the world and has been credited with pio ...

formerly Massachusetts Financial Services *

Meeting for Sufferings Meeting for Sufferings is an executive committee of Britain Yearly Meeting, the body which acts on behalf of members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Great Britain and the Crown Dependencies. It has about 200 members who meet five ...

, a consultative body in Britain Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) *''

Microsoft Flight Simulator ''Microsoft Flight Simulator'' is a series of Flight simulation video game, flight simulator programs for MS-DOS, Classic Mac OS, and Microsoft Windows operating systems. It was an early product in the Microsoft application portfolio and diff ...

'', an amateur flight simulator series *

Missouri Folklore Society The Missouri Folklore Society was organized December 15, 1906, "to encourage the collection, preservation and study of folklore in the widest sense, including customs, institutions, beliefs, signs, legends, language, literature, musical arts, an ...

, a historical society for Missouri folklore *

Multi-fuel stove A multi-fuel stove is similar to a wood-burning stove in appearance and design. Multifuel refers to the capability of the stove to burn wood and also coal, wood pellets, or peat. Stoves that have a grate for the fire to burn on and a removable ash ...

, a type of stove *

Octaviar Octaviar Limited (formerly MFS Limited) was an Australian diversified investment company in the funds management and financial services sectors. The company, once valued at $2.4 billion was forced to sell its main asset, the Stella Group, in Fe ...

, Australian property group formerly known as MFS {{disambig