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

Organizations

Brazilian Ministry of Social Development The Ministry of Social Development and Fight against Hunger (MSD) ( pt, Ministério do Desenvolvimento Social e Combate à Fome, ''MDS'') was a cabinet-level federal ministry Ministry may refer to: Government * Ministry (collective execu ...

* Mennonite Disaster Service, a disaster relief volunteer group *

Movement for Socialist Democracy Movement for Socialist Democracy (in French language, French: ''Mouvement pour la Démocratie Socialiste'') was a political party in Burkina Faso. The MDS surged when the Burkinabè Communist Group split in April 1989. In March 1991 it took the n ...

(''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

Companies

MDS America MDS America, Inc (MDSA) is a wireless Internet and wireless cable TV technology provider based in Stuart, Florida, US. MDS America was the primary party responsible for the invalidation of Northpoint Technology Inc's patents having to do with extra ...

, a telecommunications company *

MDS Gateways MDS Gateways is a telecommunications company based in Dublin, Ireland. It is a designer and supplier of unified communications products and markets its products in Europe, South Africa, and the US. It specializes in Integrated Services Digital ...

, a telecommunications company in Ireland *

MDS Inc. Nordion Inc., a Sotera Health company, is a health science company that provides Cobalt-60 used for sterilization and treatment of disease (radiotherapy). Nordion is headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, with facilities in Vancouver, British ...

, a healthcare company *

Microwave Data Systems GE MDS (formerly Microwave Data Systems, Inc. “MDS”) is a company that designs, manufactures, and sells wireless communications equipment for the industrial market. GEMDS is headquartered in Rochester, NY. All research and development and ma ...

, a wireless modem company * Mohawk Data Sciences Corporation, 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 measure of sensitivity *

Molybdenum disulfide Molybdenum disulfide (or moly) is an 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 the mineral molybdenit ...

, a compound added to some plastics to make parts more slippery * Multi-Displacement System, a Chrysler automobile technology

Computing

.mds Media Descriptor File (MDF) is a proprietary disc image file format developed for Alcohol 120%, an optical disc authoring program. Daemon Tools, CDemu, MagicISO, PowerDVD, and WinCDEmu can also read the MDF format. A ''disc image'' is a comp ...

, a file extension associated with disk image descriptions *

MDS 2400 The MDS 2400 was a small floor-standing computer manufactured by Mohawk Data Sciences Corporation. The machine was originally developed by Atron Corporation as the Atron 501 Datamanager, introduced in 1969. It was marketed primarily for '' remote ...

, 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, a set of vulnerabilities in Intel processors *Minimum Data Set (MDS) used to define the smallest acceptable set of data items in a report or a message between two computer systems (interoperability) * Cisco MDS, a line of Fibre Channel switches

Medicine

* Miller–Dieker syndrome, a neurological disorder * Minimum Data Set, information collected for US Medicare/Medicaid asessement * Myelodysplastic syndrome

Mathematics

* Martingale difference sequence, in probability theory * Maximum distance separable code, in mathematical coding theory * Multidimensional scaling, 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 conn ...

, 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 Accordi ...

, IATA code * Morden South railway station, London, National Rail station code

Other uses

* ''MDs'' (TV series), a 2002 American medical drama * '' Marathon des Sables'', an ultramarathon held in Morocco * 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 {{disambiguation