MPS, M.P.S., MPs, or mps may refer to:

Science and technology

Mucopolysaccharidosis Mucopolysaccharidoses are a group of metabolic disorders caused by the absence or malfunctioning of lysosomal enzymes needed to break down molecules called glycosaminoglycans (GAGs). These long chains of sugar carbohydrates occur within the cel ...

, genetic lysosomal storage disorder *

Mononuclear phagocyte system In immunology, the mononuclear phagocyte system or mononuclear phagocytic system (MPS), also known as the macrophage system, is a part of the immune system that consists of the Phagocyte, phagocytic cells located in reticular connective tissue. T ...

, cells in mammalian biology *

Myofascial pain syndrome Myofascial pain syndrome (MPS), also known as chronic myofascial pain (CMP), is a syndrome characterized by chronic pain in multiple myofascial trigger points ("knots") and fascial (connective tissue) constrictions. It can appear in any body part. ...

* Metallopanstimulin *

Potassium peroxymonosulfate Potassium peroxymonosulfate is widely used as an oxidizing agent, for example, in pools and spas (usually referred to as monopersulfate or "MPS"). It is the potassium salt (chemistry), salt of peroxymonosulfuric acid. Potassium peroxymonosulfate ...

, oxidizer commonly used for pools and spas *

Metre per second The metre per second is the unit of both speed (a scalar (physics), scalar quantity) and velocity (a Vector (mathematics and physics), vector quantity, which has direction and magnitude) in the International System of Units (SI), equal to the sp ...

(m/s) *

Matrix product state A matrix product state (MPS) is a representation of a quantum many-body state. It is at the core of one of the most effective algorithms for solving one dimensional strongly correlated quantum systems – the density matrix renormalization group ...

, method to describe quantum many-body states *

Marginal propensity to save The marginal propensity to save (MPS) is the fraction of an increase in income that is not spent and instead used for saving. It is the slope of the line plotting saving against income. For example, if a household earns one extra dollar, and the ...

Mean-preserving spread In probability and statistics, a mean-preserving spread (MPS) is a change from one probability distribution A to another probability distribution B, where B is formed by spreading out one or more portions of A's probability density function or proba ...

, in probability and statistics * Mail Preference Service, the Robinson list direct mail opt-out system * Master Production Schedule, plan for individual commodities to be produced * Method Performance Specifications, for analytical validation/verification of laboratory tests and systems required by the

College of American Pathologists The College of American Pathologists (CAP) is a member-based physician organization founded in 1946, comprising approximately 18,000 board-certified pathologists. It serves patients, pathologists, and the public by fostering and advocating ...

* Myofibrillar Protein Synthesis

Computing

Mobile Programming System A general-purpose macro processor or general purpose preprocessor is a Macro (computer science), macro processor that is not tied to or integrated with a particular language or piece of software. A macro processor is a program that copies a stre ...

, by William Waite in the 1960s *

JetBrains MPS JetBrains MPS (Meta Programming System) is a language workbench developed by JetBrains. MPS is a tool to design domain-specific languages (DSL). It uses projectional editing which allows users to overcome the limits of language parsers, and bui ...

, Meta Programming System * MPS (format), the Mathematical Programming System, a computer file format used to describe mathematical programming problems *

MultiProcessor Specification The MultiProcessor Specification (MPS) for the x86 architecture is an open standard describing enhancements to both operating systems and firmware, which will allow them to work with x86-compatible processors in a multi-processor configuration. MPS ...

, Intel specification for multi-processor computers of x86 architecture * Moving Particle Semi-implicit Method, a computational method for the simulation of incompressible free surface flows * Messages per second, sent or received by a market data system; See

Options Price Reporting Authority The Options Price Reporting Authority (OPRA) oversees the Securities Information Processor (SIP) that provides last sale information and current options quotations from a committee of participant exchanges. In turn, this committee is designated ...

* Minimum Population Search, a computational method that optimizes a problem by iteratively trying to improve a set of candidate solutions * Metal Performance Shaders, a collection of highly optimized compute and graphics

shaders In computer graphics, a shader is a computer program that calculates the appropriate levels of light, darkness, and color during the rendering of a 3D scene—a process known as '' shading''. Shaders have evolved to perform a variety of sp ...

designed to integrate into apps using

Apple An apple is a round, edible fruit produced by an apple tree (''Malus'' spp.). Fruit trees of the orchard or domestic apple (''Malus domestica''), the most widely grown in the genus, are agriculture, cultivated worldwide. The tree originated ...

Metal A metal () is a material that, when polished or fractured, shows a lustrous appearance, and conducts electrical resistivity and conductivity, electricity and thermal conductivity, heat relatively well. These properties are all associated wit ...

API.

Language

Mandarin Phonetic Symbols Bopomofo, also called Zhuyin Fuhao ( ; ), or simply Zhuyin, is a transliteration system for Standard Chinese and other Sinitic languages. It is the principal method of teaching Chinese Mandarin pronunciation in Taiwan. It consists of 37 cha ...

or Bopomofo (MPS I) **

Mandarin Phonetic Symbols II Mandarin Phonetic Symbols II (MPS II) is a romanization system formerly used in Taiwan. It was created to replace the complex Gwoyeu Romatzyh system, which used tonal spelling—and to co-exist with the Wade–Giles romanization as well as bo ...

Organizations

Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena S.p.A. (), known as BMPS or just MPS, is an Italian bank. Tracing its history to a mount of piety founded in 1472 () and established in its present form in 1624 (), it is the world's List of oldest banks, oldest ...

, the oldest extant bank, in Italy ** MPS Finance, a defunct subsidiary of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena ** MPS Capital Services, a subsidiary of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena * Malmin Palloseura, association football club in Helsinki, Finland *

Mathematical Programming Society The Mathematical Optimization Society (MOS), known as the Mathematical Programming Society (MPS) until 2010,Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research The Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (abbreviation: MPS; ) is a research institute in astronomy and astrophysics located in Göttingen, Germany, where it relocated in February 2014 from the nearby village of Lindau (Katlenburg-Lindau ...

in Germany *

Medical Protection Society The Medical Protection Society (MPS) is one of the three UK mutual protection organisations for medical, dental and healthcare professionals. (Dentists are covered through its subsidiary company Dental Protection.) It protects and supports th ...

, supplying legal and ethics support to health professionals * Metropolitan Police Service of Greater London, England *

Mont Pelerin Society The Mont Pelerin Society (MPS), founded in 1947, is an international academic society of Economist, economists, Political philosophy, political philosophers, and other Intelligentsia, intellectuals who share a classical liberal outlook. It is hea ...

, international organization favoring economic liberalism *

MPS Records MPS Records was a German jazz record company and label founded in 1968 by Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer. MPS stands for "Musik Produktion Schwarzwald" (Music Production Black Forest). History Originally based in Villingen, MPS was founded as the suc ...

, ''Musik Produktion Schwarzwald'' (Music Production Black Forest), a jazz record label * Monolithic Power Systems, an international semiconductor company

Politics

Ministry of Social Security (Brazil) The Ministry of Social Security (, abbreviated MPSFederative Republic of Brazil. Ministry of Social Security.Acesso à Informação: Institucional. Accessed 22 September 2013. ) is a Cabinet of Brazil, cabinet-level federal government of Brazil, f ...

, (Portuguese: ''Ministério da Previdência Social'') *

Ministry of Public Security (disambiguation) Ministry of Public Security can refer to: * Ministry of Justice and Public Security (Brazil) * Ministry of Public Security of Burundi * Ministry of Public Security (Chile) * Ministry of Public Security (China) * Ministry of Public Security of Cost ...

of several countries: **

Ministry of Public Security of the People's Republic of China Ministry may refer to: Government * Ministry (collective executive), the complete body of government ministers under the leadership of a prime minister * Ministry (government department), a department of a government Religion * Christian mi ...

* ''Ministerstvo Putey Soobshcheniya'' (Ministry of the Means of Communication) in Russian-language jurisdictions: ** Ministry of the Means of Communication (Soviet Union) * Member of the

Pharmaceutical Society of Australia The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) is a professional organisation of Australian pharmacists. PSA is the peak national body for pharmacists, representing the pharmacy profession and the 37,000 pharmacists in Australia, with approxima ...

* Mouvement Patriotique de Salut, a political party in Chad

Education

* Michael Park School, Waldorf school located in Auckland, New Zealand * Maheshwari Public School, Jaipur, India * Marymount Primary School, Hong Kong, China

United States

Miss Porter's School Miss Porter's School (MPS) is a private college preparatory school for girls founded in 1843 in Farmington, Connecticut. The school draws students from many of the 50 U.S. states, as well as from abroad. International students comprised 14% i ...

, an all-girls preparatory school in Farmington, Connecticut *

Minneapolis Public Schools Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) or Special School District Number 1 is a public school district serving students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Minneapolis Public Schools enrolls 36,370 students in pub ...

, large school district in the state of Minnesota *

Milwaukee Public Schools Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) is the largest school district in Wisconsin. As of the 2015–16 school year, MPS served 75,568 students in 154 schools and had 9,636 full-time equivalent (FTE) staff positions. The system is one of the largest i ...

, largest public education district in the state of Wisconsin *

Mercyhurst Preparatory School Mercyhurst Preparatory School, commonly called Mercyhurst Prep or MPS, is a Catholic, coeducational secondary school located in Erie, Pennsylvania. In the Roman Catholic Diocese of Erie, the school is located behind Mercyhurst University on Ea ...

, high school in Erie, Pennsylvania * Midland Public Schools, school district in Midland, Michigan *

Millard Public Schools The Millard Public Schools is a school district in the southwest part of Omaha, Nebraska, Omaha, Nebraska, United States. The first school in Millard was established in the fall of 1870. The school district is named for Ezra Millard (1833-1886) ...

, school district in Omaha, Nebraska *

Montgomery Public Schools Montgomery Public Schools is a school district headquartered in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. The current Superintendent of Montgomery Public Schools is Melvin Brown. The district serves the city of Montgomery and surrounding Montgomery ...

, a school district in Montgomery County, Alabama *

Miami Public Schools Miami Public Schools (MPS) is a school district headquartered in Miami, Oklahoma. Its attendance area includes most of the city; the northern portion is instead in Commerce Public Schools. MPS also includes the Dotyville census-designated plac ...

, Miami, Oklahoma

Other uses

* Members of Parliament (MPs) *

Master of Professional Studies Master, master's or masters may refer to: Ranks or titles In education: *Master (college), head of a college *Master's degree, a postgraduate or sometimes undergraduate degree in the specified discipline *Schoolmaster or master, presiding office ...

, a terminal master's degree * Meet-the-People Sessions, where citizens meet their members of parliament in Singapore *

Multiple Property Submission The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of sites, buildings, structures, districts, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...

, to the US National Register of Historic Places * Master production schedule, a plan for individual commodities to be produced *

Mazda is a Japanese Multinational corporation, multinational automotive manufacturer headquartered in Fuchū, Hiroshima (town), Fuchū, Hiroshima Prefecture, Hiroshima, Japan. The company was founded on January 30, 1920, as Toyo Cork Kogyo Co., Ltd. ...

Performance Series,

Mazdaspeed (often stylized in all-caps as MAZDASPEED) was Mazda's in-house performance division. The company was a grassroots racing team in Japan. Owned by Mazda Motor Corporation, they built production model vehicles, became involved in motorsports develo ...

European version. * ssmypics.scr, a screensaver for

Microsoft Windows Windows is a Product lining, product line of Proprietary software, proprietary graphical user interface, graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft. It is grouped into families and subfamilies that cater to particular sec ...

* Member of the Preferred Sex * Marginal price auction (from Marginal Price System) * Multiple Personality Syndrome, an obsolete term for Dissociative identity disorder * M. P. Sivagnanam, Indian writer and politician, known simply by his initials M. P. S. *

Mario Party Superstars is a 2021 party video game developed by NDcube and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch. It is the 12th home console installment in the ''Mario Party'' series, and the second for the Nintendo Switch following '' Super Mario Party'' (20 ...

, a 2021 party video game for the Nintendo Switch

Transport

* MPS, the IATA code for Mount Pleasant Regional Airport, Texas * MPS, the MRT station abbreviation for MacPherson MRT station, Singapore