Music

* Motion City Soundtrack, a pop punk / rock band from Minneapolis, Minnesota

Science and technology

* Matrix cable system, submarine communications cable connecting Indonesia and Singapore * Megawatt Charging System, 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 complex of thunderstorms

Biology and medicine

Membrane contact site Membrane contact sites (MCS) are close appositions between two organelles. Ultrastructural studies typically reveal an intermembrane distance in the order of the size of a single protein, as small as 10 nm or wider, with no clear upper limit. ...

, 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 rel ...

, 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, the region of restriction enzyme sites in a plasmid

Computing

* Master of Computer Science * Multiple Console Support, in OS/360 and successors * Multi categories security, in Security-Enhanced Linux * Multinational Character Set, 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 h ...

'', a music composition notation program *

MCS algorithm For mathematical optimization, Multilevel Coordinate Search (MCS) is an efficient algorithm for bound constrained global optimization using function values only. To do so, the n-dimensional search space is represented by a set of non-intersect ...

(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 CPU

Organizations

* Marcus Corporation (NYSE symbol) * Marine Conservation Society, UK * Methodist Church in Singapore * MCS (fashion brand) (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 Master's College and Seminary (MCS) is Pentecostal theological institute in Peterborough and Toronto, Ontario, that consists of a residential Bible college, a church-based seminary in Toronto affiliated with Tyndale Seminary at Tyndale Universit ...

, Peterborough, Ontario ; Hong Kong *

Maryknoll Convent School Maryknoll Convent School (MCS, ) is a Roman Catholic girls' school with primary and secondary sections at Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong. It was founded by the American Maryknoll Sisters in Hong Kong in 1925 at Kowloon Tsai, Hong Kong. MCS is a pres ...

, Kowloon Tong ; Ireland * Malahide Community School, Dublin ; Philippines *

Malate Catholic School Malate Catholic School (Paaralang Katoliko ng Malate or MCS) is a private catholic gender-isolated K to 12 school in Malate Metro Manila Philippines established in 1917. It is accredited by PAASCU. History 1588 * The Augustinians from Spain e ...

, Manila *

Mater Carmeli School Mater Carmeli School - Novaliches, located at Sacred Heart Village, Novaliches, Quezon City, is a private Catholic educational institution owned and managed by the Carmelite Missionaries. It was founded in 1986 on a property adjacent to the Novit ...

, Quezon City, Metro Manila ; Pakistan * Military College of Signals, Rawalpindi, Punjab *

Murree Christian School Murree Christian School was a small private boarding school founded in 1956. It closed in June 2021. It was a founding member of the SAISA, South Asian Inter-Scholastic Association (SAISA) in 1972, and was a highly regarded educational instituti ...

, Jhika Gali, Punjab ; United Kingdom * Magdalen College School, Oxford, England * Magdalen College School, Brackley, 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 headmistres ...

, London, England ;United States *

Manhattan Country School Manhattan Country School is an independent coeducational PreK-8 school with its main location in Manhattan and a farm in Roxbury, New York. Founded in 1966, it is distinctive because of its multicultural and progressive educational philosophy, the ...

, 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 di ...

, Tennessee * Mellon College of Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania *

Montrose Christian School Montrose Christian School was a private Christian school in North Bethesda, Maryland, with a Rockville postal address. It was formerly operated by the Montrose Baptist Church, Maryland's second largest Southern Baptist church. It educated around ...

, Rockville, Maryland * Murfreesboro City Schools, Murfreesboro, Tennessee

Other uses

* Master of Christian Studies (MCS) * MCS (Mine countermeasures support ship), a US Navy classification code; See List of mine warfare vessels of the United States Navy *

Management control system A management control system (MCS) is a system which gathers and uses information to evaluate the performance of different organizational resources like human, physical, financial and also the organization as a whole in light of the organizational ...

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