MS, ms, Ms, M.S., etc. may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
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''Ms.'' (magazine), an American feminist magazine
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Metal Storm (webzine), a heavy metal website based in Estonia
Businesses and organizations
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MS-13
Mara Salvatrucha, commonly known as MS-13, is an international criminal gang that originated in Los Angeles, California, in the 1970s and 1980s. Originally, the gang was set up to protect Salvadoran immigrants from other gangs in the Los Ange ...
, criminal gang
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Missionaries of La Salette
The Missionaries of Our Lady of La Salette (M.S. - Missionarium Saletiniensis) are a religious congregation of priests and brothers in the Latin Church. They are named after the apparition of Our Lady of La Salette in France. There is also a par ...
, a Catholic male religious order
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Młodzi Socjaliści (Young Socialists), a former Polish socialist youth organization
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Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley is an American multinational investment management and financial services company headquartered at 1585 Broadway in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. With offices in more than 41 countries and more than 75,000 employees, the fir ...
, a US investment bank (NYSE stock symbol: MS)
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Mjólkursamsalan Mjólkursamsalan, (MS) is an Icelandic company that produces milk and other dairy products and is the largest company in the Icelandic dairy industry MS is owned by two cooperatives, Auðhumla a cooperative of Icelandic dairy farmers
Dairy fa ...
, an Icelandic dairy company
Educational qualifications
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Master of Science
A Master of Science ( la, Magisterii Scientiae; abbreviated MS, M.S., MSc, M.Sc., SM, S.M., ScM or Sc.M.) is a master's degree in the field of science awarded by universities in many countries or a person holding such a degree. In contrast to ...
, a master's degree in the field of science
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Master of Surgery, an advanced medical degree
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Master Sommelier
The Court of Master Sommeliers (CMS) is an educational organisation established in 1977 to encourage improved standards of beverage service by sommeliers, particularly in wine and food pairing. From the court's inception through 2018, a worldwid ...
, a terminal degree in the field of wine
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Mastère spécialisé The Mastère Spécialisé, also called the Specialized Master or Advanced Master is a French post-graduate specialization degree created in 1986 by the French Conférence des Grandes Écoles.
It is a full-time, one-year program (75 ECTS) which incl ...
'', a French postgraduate ''grande école'' master's degree
Medicine
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Mitral stenosis
Mitral stenosis is a valvular heart disease characterized by the narrowing of the opening of the mitral valve of the heart. It is almost always caused by rheumatic valvular heart disease. Normally, the mitral valve is about 5 cm2 during d ...
, narrowing of the mitral valve of the heart
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Morphine sulfate
Morphine is a strong opiate that is found naturally in opium, a dark brown resin in poppies (''Papaver somniferum''). It is mainly used as a pain medication, and is also commonly used recreationally, or to make other illicit opioids. Th ...
, an opiate pain-relieving drug
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Multiple sclerosis
Multiple (cerebral) sclerosis (MS), also known as encephalomyelitis disseminata or disseminated sclerosis, is the most common demyelinating disease, in which the insulating covers of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord are damaged. This d ...
, a disease of the nervous system
Military
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Master seaman
Master sailor, formerly Master seaman,Government of Canada. D Cdts. National Defence. "''Cadet Instructor Cadre - Basic Officer Qualification Course - Programmed Instructional Package''". 2006. Chapter 2, Annex A, "''Abbreviations for Titles and ...
, a non-commissioned member rank of the Canadian Navy
* Mess Management Specialist, a former U.S. Navy occupational rating now covered by
culinary specialist
Places
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Mato Grosso do Sul
Mato Grosso do Sul () is one of the Midwestern states of Brazil. Neighboring Brazilian states are (from north clockwise) Mato Grosso, Goiás, Minas Gerais, São Paulo and Paraná. It also borders the countries of Paraguay, to the southwest, and ...
, Brazil, postal code MS
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Mississippi
Mississippi () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered to the north by Tennessee; to the east by Alabama; to the south by the Gulf of Mexico; to the southwest by Louisiana; and to the northwest by Arkansas. Miss ...
, a U.S. state, official abbreviation
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Montserrat
Montserrat ( ) is a British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean. It is part of the Leeward Islands, the northern portion of the Lesser Antilles chain of the West Indies. Montserrat is about long and wide, with r ...
, Caribbean island nation (ISO 3166-2 country code: MS)
Science and technology
Computing
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.ms
.ms is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Montserrat, a British Overseas Territory.
Usage
* Microsoft uses this as an abbreviation for projects such as ch9.ms or 1drv.ms for its OneDrive. In particular, aka.ms is used ex ...
, the top level Internet domain for Montserrat in the Caribbean
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Master System, a third-generation video game console produced by Sega
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Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation producing computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at the Microsoft Redmond campus located in Redmond, Washing ...
, an American-based global software company
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Mobile station
A mobile station (MS) comprises all user equipment and computer software, software needed for communication with a Cellular network, mobile network.
The term refers to the global system connected to the mobile network, i.e. a mobile phone or mob ...
, a piece of equipment for communication with a mobile network
Units of measure
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Megasiemens
The siemens (symbol: S) is the unit of electric conductance, electric susceptance, and electric admittance in the International System of Units (SI). Conductance, susceptance, and admittance are the reciprocals of resistance, reactance, and ...
(MS), and millisiemens (mS), multiples of the unit of electric conductance siemens
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Metre per second (m/s), a unit of velocity (speed)
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Mile per second
Miles per hour (mph, m.p.h., MPH, or mi/h) is a British imperial and United States customary unit of speed expressing the number of miles travelled in one hour. It is used in the United Kingdom, the United States, and a number of smaller countr ...
(m/s), a unit of velocity (speed)
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Millisecond
A millisecond (from '' milli-'' and second; symbol: ms) is a unit of time in the International System of Units (SI) equal to one thousandth (0.001 or 10−3 or 1/1000) of a second and to 1000 microseconds.
A unit of 10 milliseconds may be called ...
(ms), a unit of time equal to one thousandth of a second
Other uses in science and technology
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Surface-wave magnitude (M
s), a seismic scale
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Solar mass (M
S), an alternate symbol to M
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Mass spectrometry
Mass spectrometry (MS) is an analytical technique that is used to measure the mass-to-charge ratio of ions. The results are presented as a ''mass spectrum'', a plot of intensity as a function of the mass-to-charge ratio. Mass spectrometry is use ...
, a method of determining the chemical composition or exact mass of molecules
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Master of Science
A Master of Science ( la, Magisterii Scientiae; abbreviated MS, M.S., MSc, M.Sc., SM, S.M., ScM or Sc.M.) is a master's degree in the field of science awarded by universities in many countries or a person holding such a degree. In contrast to ...
, a postgraduate university master's degree
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Mesylate
In organosulfur chemistry, a mesylate is any salt or ester of methanesulfonic acid (). In salts, the mesylate is present as the anion. When modifying the international nonproprietary name of a pharmaceutical substance containing the group ...
, a chemical salt
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Spin quantum number,
Transportation
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Egyptair, by its IATA code "MS"
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Motor ship
A motor ship or motor vessel is a ship propelled by an internal combustion engine, usually a diesel engine. The names of motor ships are often prefixed with MS, M/S, MV or M/V.
Engines for motorships were developed during the 1890s, and by th ...
, ship prefix
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Chennai Egmore railway station, code MS
Other uses
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Ms.
Ms. (American English) or Ms (British English; normally , but also , or when unstressed)''Oxford English Dictionary'' online, Ms, ''n.2''. Etymology: "An orthographic and phonetic blend of Mrs ''n.1'' and miss ''n.2'' Compare mizz ''n.'' The pr ...
, a common title for women that does not indicate marital status
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MS (cigarette)
MS is an Italian brand of cigarettes manufactured by the Italian subsidiary of British American Tobacco.
MS was manufactured by the Italian company Ente Tabacchi Italiani and owned by the Italian State Monopoly, until E.T.I was introduced by Bri ...
, an Italian brand of cigarettes
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MS (satellite), a series of four Soviet satellites launched in 1962
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Malay language
Malay (; ms, Bahasa Melayu, links=no, Jawi alphabet, Jawi: , Rejang script, Rencong: ) is an Austronesian languages, Austronesian language that is an official language of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore, and that is also spo ...
, of Southeast Asia (ISO 639-1 language code: ms)
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Manuscript
A manuscript (abbreviated MS for singular and MSS for plural) was, traditionally, any document written by hand – or, once practical typewriters became available, typewritten – as opposed to mechanically printing, printed or repr ...
, abbreviation (ms.) for a written or typed document
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Member of the Senedd (formerly ''Assembly Member''), Welsh Parliament legislator
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Memoriae Sacrum (Latin for "Sacred to the Memory"), an epitaph
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Multan Sultans
Multan Sultans (Urdu: ) is a Pakistani professional Twenty20 franchise cricket team representing the city of Multan in southern Pakistan in the Pakistan Super League (PSL). The team was founded in 2017 as an additional sixth team added to the P ...
, a professional Twenty20 franchise cricket team in the Pakistan Super League
See also
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M&S (disambiguation)
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M/S (disambiguation)
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M (disambiguation)
M is the thirteenth letter of the modern Latin alphabet.
M may also refer to:
Companies and products
* M (fragrance), a 2008 fragrance by Mariah Carey
* M (rangefinder), a series of Leica cameras
* M (virtual assistant), a former virtual ass ...
, including the singular of Ms
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S (disambiguation)
S is the nineteenth letter of the English alphabet.
S may also refer to:
History
* an Anglo-Saxon charter's number in Peter Sawyer's, catalogue Language and linguistics
* Long s (ſ), a form of the lower-case letter s formerly used where "s ...
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SM (disambiguation)
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MSMS (disambiguation)
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