Music

Motion City Soundtrack Motion City Soundtrack is an American rock band that formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1997. The band's line-up consists of vocalist and guitarist Justin Courtney Pierre, lead guitarist Joshua Cain, keyboardist Jesse Johnson, bassist Matthe ...

, a pop punk / rock band from Minneapolis, Minnesota

Science and technology

* Matrix cable system, submarine communications cable connecting Indonesia and Singapore *

Megawatt Charging System The Megawatt Charging System (MCS) is a charging connector under development for large battery electric vehicles. The connector will be rated for charging at a maximum rate of (3,000 amps at 1,250 volts direct current (DC)). The MCS connector ...

, electric vehicle charging connector *

Modulation and coding scheme Link adaptation, comprising adaptive coding and modulation (ACM) and others (such as Power Control), is a term used in wireless communications to denote the matching of the modulation, coding and other signal and protocol parameters to the conditio ...

, in the telecommunications industry *

Mercalli-Cancani-Sieberg The Modified Mercalli intensity scale (MM, MMI, or MCS), developed from Giuseppe Mercalli's Mercalli intensity scale of 1902, is a seismic intensity scale used for measuring the intensity of shaking produced by an earthquake. It measures the eff ...

, a scale of earthquake intensity, successor to the Mercalli intensity scale *

Mesoscale convective system A mesoscale convective system (MCS) is a complex of thunderstorms that becomes organized on a scale larger than the individual thunderstorms but smaller than extratropical cyclones, and normally persists for several hours or more. A mesoscale con ...

, a complex of thunderstorms

Biology and medicine

* Membrane contact site, within cells *

Minimally conscious state A minimally conscious state (MCS) is a disorder of consciousness distinct from persistent vegetative state and locked-in syndrome. Unlike persistent vegetative state, patients with MCS have partial preservation of conscious awareness. MCS is a ...

, a disorder of consciousness *

Multiple chemical sensitivity Multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), also known as idiopathic environmental intolerances (IEI), is an unrecognized and controversial diagnosis characterized by chronic symptoms attributed to exposure to low levels of commonly used chemicals. Symp ...

, an unrecognized and controversial medical diagnosis characterized by chronic symptoms attributed to exposure to low levels of commonly used chemicals *

Multiple cloning site A multiple cloning site (MCS), also called a polylinker, is a short segment of DNA which contains many (up to ~20) restriction sites - a standard feature of engineered plasmids. Restriction sites within an MCS are typically unique, occurring only ...

, the region of restriction enzyme sites in a plasmid

Computing

Master of Computer Science This list refers to specific master's degrees in North America. Please see master's degree for a more general overview. Accountancy Master of Accountancy (MAcc, MAc, MAcy or MPAcc), alternatively Master of Professional Accountancy (MPAcy or MP ...

* Multiple Console Support, in

OS/360 and successors OS/360, officially known as IBM System/360 Operating System, is a discontinued batch processing operating system developed by IBM for their then-new System/360 mainframe computer, announced in 1964; it was influenced by the earlier IBSYS/IBJO ...

Multi categories security Multi categories security (MCS) is an access control method in Security-Enhanced Linux that uses categories attached to objects (files) and granted to subjects (processes, ...) at the operating system level. The implementation in Fedora Core 5 is ...

, in Security-Enhanced Linux *

Multinational Character Set The Multinational Character Set (DMCS or MCS) is a character encoding created in 1983 by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) for use in the popular VT220 terminal. It was an 8-bit extension of ASCII that added accented characters, currency symbol ...

, used in VT220 terminals * ''

Music Construction Set ''Will Harvey's Music Construction Set'' (''MCS'') is a music composition notation program designed by Will Harvey for the Apple II and published by Electronic Arts in 1983. Harvey wrote the original Apple II version in assembly language when ...

'', a music composition notation program *

MCS algorithm For mathematical optimization, Multilevel Coordinate Search (MCS) is an efficient algorithm In mathematics and computer science, an algorithm () is a finite sequence of rigorous instructions, typically used to solve a class of specifi ...

(Multilevel Coordinate Search), a derivative-free optimization algorithm * Micro Computer Set, a set of instructions implemented by a computer architecture such as in the Intel

MCS 51 The Intel MCS-51 (commonly termed 8051) is a single chip microcontroller (MCU) series developed by Intel in 1980 for use in embedded systems. The architect of the Intel MCS-51 instruction set was John H. Wharton. Intel's original versions were ...

CPU

Organizations

Marcus Corporation The Marcus Corporation () is an American publicly held company headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The company operates two principal divisions: Marcus Theatres and Marcus Hotels and Resorts. History Marcus Corporation was founded on Novemb ...

(NYSE symbol) * Marine Conservation Society, UK *

Methodist Church in Singapore The Methodist Church in Singapore (MCS) is the church that Methodists in Singapore belong to. The Church has 46 churches island-wide with around 42,000 members, and is the largest mainline Protestant denomination in Singapore. Its current bishop a ...

MCS (fashion brand) MCS (formerly Marlboro Classics) is an international fashion lifestyle brand based in Italy. Born in the 1970s as Marlboro Country Store, the brand changed name to Marlboro Sportswear in 1984, then became Marlboro Classics in 1987 and MCS in ...

(formerly Marlboro Classics), an Italian clothing brand * Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS) Service Company Limited, the UK's body that certifies low-carbon products and installations used to produce electricity and heat from renewable sources (largely domestic solar panels and heat pumps)

Schools

; Canada * Master's College and Seminary, Peterborough, Ontario ; Hong Kong * Maryknoll Convent School, Kowloon Tong ; Ireland * Malahide Community School, Dublin ; Philippines * Malate Catholic School, Manila * Mater Carmeli School, Quezon City, Metro Manila ; Pakistan *

Military College of Signals A military, also known collectively as armed forces, is a heavily armed, highly organized force primarily intended for warfare. It is typically authorized and maintained by a sovereign state, with its members identifiable by their distinct ...

, Rawalpindi, Punjab * Murree Christian School, Jhika Gali, Punjab ; United Kingdom *

Magdalen College School, Oxford Magdalen College School (MCS) is a public school (English independent day school) in Oxford, England, for boys aged seven to eighteen and for girls in the sixth form. It was founded by William Waynflete about 1480 as part of Magdalen Colle ...

, England *

Magdalen College School, Brackley Magdalen College School, Brackley, in Northamptonshire, is one of three ancient "Magdalen College Schools", the others being Magdalen College School in Oxford, and Wainfleet All Saints in Lincolnshire, all associated with Magdalen College, O ...

, England *

Michaela Community School Michaela Community School (referred to as simply MCS or Michaela) is an 11–18 mixed, free secondary school and sixth form in Wembley, Greater London, England. It was established in September 2014 with Katharine Birbalsingh as headmistress ...

, London, England ;United States * Manhattan Country School, New York *

McMinn County Schools McMinn County School District or McMinn County Schools is a school district headquartered in Athens, Tennessee. Most of McMinn County is zoned to the district for all grade levels. Residents of Athens and Etowah however have separate school ...

, Tennessee *

Mellon College of Science The Mellon College of Science (MCS) is part of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US. The college is named for the Mellon family, founders of the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, a predecessor of Carnegie Mellon Univ ...

, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania * Montrose Christian School, Rockville, Maryland * Murfreesboro City Schools, Murfreesboro, Tennessee

Other uses

Master of Christian Studies Christian theology is the theology of Christian belief and practice. Such study concentrates primarily upon the texts of the Old Testament and of the New Testament, as well as on Christian tradition. Christian theologians use biblical exege ...

(MCS) * MCS (Mine countermeasures support ship), a US Navy classification code; See

List of mine warfare vessels of the United States Navy This is a list of mine warfare vessels of the United States Navy. Ship status is indicated as either currently active (including ready reserve), inactive or precommissioning Ships in the inactive category include only ships in the inactive ...

* Management control system *

Michigan Central Station Michigan Central Station (also known as Michigan Central Depot or MCS) is the historic former main intercity passenger rail station in Detroit, Michigan. Built for the Michigan Central Railroad, it replaced the original depot in downtown Detroit ...

, a former rail station depot in Detroit, Michigan, US * Millennium Cohort Study, UK {{disambiguation