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

Organizations

Brazilian Ministry of Social Development The Ministry of Social Development and Assistance, Family and Fight against Hunger (MSD) (, ''MDS'') is a Cabinet of Brazil, cabinet-level federal government of Brazil, federal list of federal institutions of Brazil, ministry in Federative Repub ...

, former name of a federal ministry in Brazil *

Mennonite Disaster Service The Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) is a volunteer network through which various groups within the Anabaptist tradition assist people affected by disasters in North America. The organization was founded in 1950 and was incorporated as a 501(c) ...

, 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 The Movement of Socialist Democrats (, '; , MDS, also translated as "Socialist Democrats Movement") is a political party in Tunisia. The MDS was founded by defectors from the then ruling Socialist Destourian Party (PSD) and liberal-minded expatr ...

(''Mouvement des Démocrates Socialistes''), a political party in Tunisia *

Social Democratic Movement The Social Democratic Movement (; MDS), often shortened to just the Democrats (), is a far-right political party in Bolivia founded in 2013 for the movement for greater autonomy for the eastern departments of the '' Media Luna''. History Ru ...

(''Movimiento Demócrata Social''), a political party in Bolivia *

Museum Data Service The Museum Data Service (MDS) is an initiative to provide an online repository of data about objects in the collections of accredited museums in the United Kingdom and associated territories. It is a collaboration between Art UK, the Collections ...

, UK non-profit organisation providing online access to museum collection data

Companies

* MDS America, a telecommunications company * MDS Inc., a healthcare company *

Microwave Data Systems GE MDS (formerly Microwave Data Systems, Inc., MDS) is an American company that designs, manufactures, and sells wireless communications equipment for the industrial market. History Microwave Data Systems (MDS) was originally part of California ...

, a wireless modem company *

Mohawk Data Sciences Corporation Mohawk Data Sciences Corporation (MDS) was an early computer hardware company, started by former Univac engineers in 1964; by 1985 they were struggling to sell off part of their company. History The company was founded in Herkimer (village), New ...

, a computer company

Science and technology

Minimum detectable signal A minimum detectable signal is a signal at the input of a system whose power allows it to be detected over the background electronic noise of the detector system. It can alternately be defined as a signal that produces a signal-to-noise ratio of a ...

, a measure of sensitivity *

Molybdenum disulfide Molybdenum disulfide (or moly) is an inorganic chemistry, inorganic compound composed of molybdenum and sulfur. Its chemical formula is . The compound is classified as a transition metal dichalcogenide. It is a silvery black solid that occurs as ...

, 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 Spotlight or spot light may refer to: Lighting * Spot light, an articulating automotive auxiliary lamp * Spotlight (theatre lighting) * Spotlight, a searchlight * Stage lighting instrument, stage lighting instruments, of several types Art, ent ...

Microarchitectural Data Sampling The Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) vulnerabilities are a set of weaknesses in Intel x86 microprocessors that use hyper-threading, and leak data across protection boundaries that are architecturally supposed to be secure. The attacks e ...

, 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 Miller–Dieker syndrome, also called Miller–Dieker lissencephaly syndrome (MDLS) or chromosome 17p13.3 deletion syndrome, is a micro deletion syndrome characterized by congenital malformations. Congenital malformations are physical defects det ...

, a neurological disorder *

Minimum Data Set The Minimum Data Set (MDS) is part of the U.S. federally mandated process for clinical assessment of all residents in Medicare or Medicaid certified nursing homes and non-critical access hospitals with Medicare swing bed agreements. (The term "swi ...

, information collected for US Medicare/Medicaid assessment *

Myelodysplastic syndrome A myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) is one of a group of cancers in which blood cells in the bone marrow do not mature, and as a result, do not develop into healthy blood cells. Early on, no symptoms typically are seen. Later, symptoms may includ ...

, one of a group of cancers

Mathematics

Martingale difference sequence In probability theory, a martingale difference sequence (MDS) is related to the concept of the martingale. A stochastic series ''X'' is an MDS if its expectation with respect to the past is zero. Formally, consider an adapted sequence \_^ on a p ...

, in probability theory *

Maximum distance separable code In coding theory, the Singleton bound, named after the American mathematician Richard Collom Singleton (1928–2007), is a relatively crude upper bound on the size of an arbitrary block code C with block length n, size M and minimum distance d. It ...

, in mathematical coding theory *

Multidimensional scaling Multidimensional scaling (MDS) is a means of visualizing the level of similarity of individual cases of a data set. MDS is used to translate distances between each pair of n objects in a set into a configuration of n points mapped into an ...

, a statistical technique

Transport

Meridian Southern Railway Founded in 2001, Meridian Southern Railway , in east Mississippi, USA, is a short line freight railroad linking Meridian, and Waynesboro, Mississippi and intermediate stations. The railroad is connected to the national rail network by its connec ...

, in Mississippi, US *

Middle Caicos Airport Middle Caicos Airport is an airport serving Middle Caicos (also known as Grand Caicos), the largest island in the Turks and Caicos Islands. Facilities The airport is at an elevation of above mean sea level. It has one runway In aviati ...

(IATA code), Turks and Caicos Islands *

Morden South railway station Morden South railway station is in Morden in the London Borough of Merton. The station is served by Thameslink trains on the Sutton Loop Line. It is in Travelcard Zone 4. The station is very close to the Bait-ul-Futuh Mosque. History Parlia ...

(National Rail station code), London, England *

Madison Municipal Airport (South Dakota) Madison Municipal Airport is a city-owned public use airport located one nautical mile (1.85 km) northeast of the central business district of Madison, a city in Lake County, South Dakota, United States. This airport is included in the FAA's ...

, Madison, South Dakota, US

Other uses

* ''MDs'' (TV series), a 2002 American medical drama * ''

Marathon des Sables ''Marathon des Sables'', or MdS, (French language, French for Marathon of the Sands) "Facing Africa NOMA : The Marathon des Sables", FacingAfrica.org, 2010, webpage: -->pages/mds/default.asp FA8. is a seven-day, about ultramarathon, whi ...

'' (''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 Miriam Palma Defensor-Santiago (June 15, 1945 – September 29, 2016) was a Filipino scholar, academic, lawyer, judge, author, stateswoman, and politician who served in all three branches of the Philippine government: judicial, executive, and l ...

(1945–2016), former senator of the Philippines