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

Science and technology

* Mucopolysaccharidosis, genetic lysosomal storage disorder *

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 * Myofascial pain syndrome * Metallopanstimulin *

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 * Metre per second (m/s) *

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 *

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 pr ...

, in probability and statistics *

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 *

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

* Mobile Programming System, 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 buil ...

, Meta Programming System * MPS (format), the Mathematical Programming System, a computer file format used to describe mathematical programming problems * MultiProcessor Specification, Intel specification for multi-processor computers of x86 architecture *

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 ...

Language

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) ** Mandarin Phonetic Symbols II

Organizations

* Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, the oldest extant bank, in Italy **

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, MP ...

, a defunct subsidiary of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena **

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 ...

, a subsidiary of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena *

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 *

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 *

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) 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 *

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 *

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

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'') *

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: **

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: **

Ministry of the Means of Communication (Soviet Union) The Ministry of Railways (russian: Министерство путей сообщения (МПС) Russian Empire, Российской империи/Soviet Union, СССР/Russia, РФ or People's commissariat, Народный комиссар ...

* 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 ...

* Mouvement Patriotique de Salut, a political party in Chad

Education

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 *

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 * Marymount Primary School, Hong Kong, China * Miami Public Schools, Miami, Oklahoma

United States

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 *

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 Milwaukee Public Schools system i ...

, largest public education district in the state of Wisconsin * Mercyhurst Preparatory School, 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, 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 Millar ...

, 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 Co ...

, a school district in Montgomery County, Alabama

Other uses

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) *

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 Maste ...

, 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 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 *

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 *

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 * Member of the Preferred Sex *

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) * Multiple Personality Syndrome, 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, Singapore