MPS, M.P.S., MPs, or mps may refer to:
Science and technology
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Mucopolysaccharidosis
Mucopolysaccharidoses are a group of metabolic disorders caused by the absence or malfunctioning of lysosome, lysosomal enzymes needed to break down molecules called glycosaminoglycans (GAGs). These long chains of sugar carbohydrates occur within ...
, genetic lysosomal storage disorder
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Mononuclear phagocyte system
In immunology, the mononuclear phagocyte system or mononuclear phagocytic system (MPS) also known as the reticuloendothelial system or macrophage system is a part of the immune system that consists of the phagocytic cells located in reticular co ...
, cells in mammalian biology
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Myofascial pain syndrome
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Metallopanstimulin
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Potassium peroxymonosulfate
Potassium peroxymonosulfate is widely used as an oxidizing agent. It is the potassium salt of peroxymonosulfuric acid. Usually potassium peroxymonosulfate refers to the triple salt known as oxone.
The standard electrode potential for potassium ...
, oxidizer commonly used for pools and spas
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Metre per second (m/s)
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Matrix product state
Matrix product state (MPS) is a quantum state of many particles (in N sites), written in the following form:
:
, \Psi\rangle = \sum_ \operatorname\left _1^ A_2^ \cdots A_N^\right, s_1 s_2 \ldots s_N\rangle,
where A_i^ are complex, square matr ...
, method to describe quantum many-body states
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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 ...
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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 pr ...
, in probability and statistics
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Mail Preference Service A Robinson list or Mail Preference Service (MPS) list is an opt-out list of people who do not wish to receive marketing transmissions. The marketing can be via e-mail, postal mail, telephone, or fax. In each case, contact details will be placed on a ...
, the Robinson list direct mail opt-out system
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Master Production Schedule
A master production schedule (MPS) is a plan for individual commodities to be produced in each time period such as production, staffing, inventory, etc. It is usually linked to manufacturing where the plan indicates when and how much of each produ ...
, 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 ...
Computing
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Mobile Programming System, by William Waite in the 1960s
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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 build ...
, Meta Programming System
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MPS (format), the Mathematical Programming System, a computer file format used to describe mathematical programming problems
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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
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Moving Particle Semi-implicit Method The moving particle semi-implicit (MPS) method is a computational method for the simulation of incompressible free surface flows. It is a macroscopic, deterministic particle method (Lagrangian mesh-free method) developed by Koshizuka and Oka (1996 ...
, 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) provides, through market data vendors, last sale information and current options quotations from a committee of participant exchanges designated as the Options Price Reporting Authority.
OPRA is a na ...
Language
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Mandarin Phonetic Symbols
Bopomofo (), or Mandarin Phonetic Symbols, also named Zhuyin (), is a Chinese transliteration system for Mandarin Chinese and Sinitic languages, other related languages and dialects. More commonly used in Taiwanese Mandarin, it may also be u ...
or Bopomofo (MPS I)
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Mandarin Phonetic Symbols II
Organizations
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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 oldest or second oldest bank ...
, the oldest extant bank, in Italy
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MPS Finance
MPS Finance (MPSF) was founded in 2001 and is the finance sub-division of the Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena.
MPS Finance was set up to be one of the "center of excellence" of Monte dei Paschi di Siena Group. Operating on two macro-platforms, MPS ...
, a defunct subsidiary of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena
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MPS Capital Services
MPS Capital Services Banca per le Imprese S.p.A. known as MPSCS in short, is an Italian corporate and investment bank based in Florence, Tuscany. The bank is a subsidiary of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena (Banca MPS). The subsidiary was known as M ...
, a subsidiary of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena
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Malmin Palloseura
Malmin Palloseura (abbreviated as MPS) is a Helsinki-based football club that was formed in 1948. The club's first team has been playing mostly in the Second and Third Divisions. Currently the team plays in the Kakkonen which is the third tier of ...
, association football club in Helsinki, Finland
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Mathematical Programming Society The Mathematical Optimization Society (MOS), known as the Mathematical Programming Society until 2010,Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research
The Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (abbreviation: MPS; german: Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung) is a research institute in astronomy and astrophysics located in Göttingen, Germany, where it relocated in February 201 ...
in Germany
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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
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Metropolitan Police Service
The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), formerly and still commonly known as the Metropolitan Police (and informally as the Met Police, the Met, Scotland Yard, or the Yard), is the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement and ...
of Greater London, England
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Mont Pelerin Society
The Mont Pelerin Society (MPS) is an international organization composed of economists, philosophers, historians, intellectuals and business leaders.Michael Novak, 'The Moral Imperative of a Free Economy', in '' The 4% Solution: Unleashing the E ...
, international organization favoring economic liberalism
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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 su ...
, ''Musik Produktion Schwarzwald'' (Music Production Black Forest), a jazz record label
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Monolithic Power Systems
Monolithic Power Systems, Inc. is an American, publicly traded company headquartered in Kirkland, Washington. It operates in more than 15+ locations worldwide.
Monolithic Power Systems (MPS) provides power circuits for systems found in cloud co ...
, an international semiconductor company
Politics
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Ministry of Social Security (Brazil)
The Ministry of Social Security ( pt, Ministério da Previdência Social, links=no, abbreviated MPSFederative Republic of Brazil. Ministry of Social Security.Acesso à Informação: Institucional. Accessed 22 September 2013. ) is a cabinet-level ...
, (Portuguese: ''Ministério da Previdência Social'')
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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 (China)
* Ministry of Public Security of Costa Rica that supervises the Public Fo ...
of several countries:
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Ministry of Public Security of the People's Republic of China
The Ministry of Public Security () is a government ministry of the People's Republic of China responsible for public and political security. It oversees more than 1.9 million of the country's law enforcement officers and as such the vast ma ...
* ''Ministerstvo Putey Soobshcheniya'' (Ministry of the Means of Communication) in Russian-language jurisdictions:
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* 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 all of the pharmacy profession in Australia, with approximately 18,000 members ...
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Mouvement Patriotique de Salut, a political party in Chad
Education
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Michael Park School
Michael Park School is a Waldorf education, Waldorf school in Auckland, New Zealand. It was established in 1979 on the present site, beginning with a kindergarten and lower school classes. It now accepts pupils aged 2 to 18, in playgroup, nurser ...
, Waldorf school located in Auckland, New Zealand
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Maheshwari Public School
Maheshwari Public School (MPS) is a Co-Educational Central Board of Secondary Education, CBSE affiliated school located in Jawahar Nagar area in Jaipur city. It is governed by the Education Committee of The Maheshwari Samaj (society), Jaipur. ...
, Jaipur, India
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Marymount Primary School, Hong Kong, China
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Miami Public Schools, Miami, Oklahoma
United States
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Miss Porter's School
Miss Porter's School (MPS) is an elite American private college preparatory school for girls founded in 1843, and located in Farmington, Connecticut. The school draws students from 21 states, 31 countries (with dual-citizenship and/or residence), ...
, an all-girls preparatory school in Farmington, Connecticut
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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
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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 Milwaukee Public Schools system i ...
, largest public education district in the state of Wisconsin
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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 East ...
, high school in Erie, Pennsylvania
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Midland Public Schools
Midland Public Schools is a public school district located in Midland, Michigan, United States.
History
The roots of Midland Public Schools go back to the 1872 ''Union High School'', which educated local students until a boiler explosion destro ...
, school district in Midland, Michigan
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Millard Public Schools
The Millard Public Schools is a school district in the southwest part of 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), who platted Milla ...
, school district in Omaha, Nebraska
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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 Co ...
, a school district in Montgomery County, Alabama
Other uses
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Members of Parliament
A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members of ...
(MPs)
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Master of Professional Studies
Master or masters may refer to:
Ranks or titles
* Ascended master, a term used in the Theosophical religious tradition to refer to spiritually enlightened beings who in past incarnations were ordinary humans
*Grandmaster (chess), National Master ...
, a terminal master's degree
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Meet-the-People Sessions
The Meet-the-People Sessions (MPS) is a series of one-to-one meetings between elected Members of the Singapore Parliament, Members of Parliament (MPs) and their constituents in Singapore. The sessions are usually held once a week at a local cons ...
, where citizens meet their members of parliament in Singapore
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Multiple Property Submission
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...
, to the US National Register of Historic Places
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Master production schedule
A master production schedule (MPS) is a plan for individual commodities to be produced in each time period such as production, staffing, inventory, etc. It is usually linked to manufacturing where the plan indicates when and how much of each produ ...
, a plan for individual commodities to be produced
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Mazda
, commonly referred to as simply Mazda, is a Japanese multinational automotive manufacturer headquartered in Fuchū, Hiroshima, Japan.
In 2015, Mazda produced 1.5 million vehicles for global sales, the majority of which (nearly one m ...
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 develop ...
European version.
* ssmypics.scr, a screensaver for
Microsoft Windows
Windows is a group of several proprietary graphical operating system families developed and marketed by Microsoft. Each family caters to a certain sector of the computing industry. For example, Windows NT for consumers, Windows Server for serv ...
* Member of the
Preferred Sex
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Marginal price auction
A multiunit auction is an auction in which several homogeneous items are sold. The units can be sold each at the same price (a uniform price auction) or at different prices (a discriminatory price auction).
Uniform price auction
A uniform pric ...
(from Marginal Price System)
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Multiple Personality Syndrome
Dissociative identity disorder (DID), better known as multiple personality disorder or multiple personality syndrome, is a mental disorder characterized by the presence of at least two distinct and relatively enduring personality states.
The di ...
, an obsolete term for Dissociative identity disorder
Transport
* MPS, the IATA code for
Mount Pleasant Regional Airport, Texas
* MPS, the MRT station abbreviation for
MacPherson MRT station
MacPherson MRT station is an underground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) interchange station on the Downtown line and Circle line in Geylang planning area, Singapore, located underneath Paya Lebar Road at the junction with Circuit Link and Ubi Avenu ...
, Singapore
See also
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MP (disambiguation) for topics where "MPS" is treated as the plural form
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