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 *

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, 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, 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 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 *

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, a neurological disorder * Minimum Data Set, 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 * Maximum distance separable code, 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, in Mississippi, US * Middle Caicos Airport (IATA code), Turks and Caicos Islands * Morden South railway station (National Rail station code), London, England * Madison Municipal Airport (South Dakota), 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 (1945–2016), former senator of the Philippines