MS, ms, Ms, M.S., etc. may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

* ''Ms.'' (magazine), an American feminist magazine *

Metal Storm (webzine) Metal Storm (also known as MetalStorm.net, MetalStorm.ee, MetalStorm.eu or just MS) is a webzine specializing in various forms of heavy metal music. It is based in Tallinn, Estonia, but caters to an international audience, symbolically recogniz ...

, a heavy metal website based in Estonia

Businesses and organizations

MS-13 Mara Salvatrucha, commonly known as MS-13, is an international criminal gang that originated in Los Angeles, California, in the 1980s. Originally, the gang was set up to protect Salvadoran immigrants from other gangs in the Los Angeles area ...

, criminal gang * Młodzi Socjaliści (Young Socialists), a former Polish socialist youth organization *

Morgan Stanley Morgan Stanley is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered at 1585 Broadway in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. With offices in 42 countries and more than 80,000 employees, the firm's clients in ...

, a US investment bank (NYSE stock symbol: MS) *

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 and Kaupf ...

, an Icelandic dairy company *

Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company, technology conglomerate headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Founded in 1975, the company became influential in the History of personal computers#The ear ...

, an American multinational corporation and technology company *

Motorola Solutions Motorola Solutions, Inc. is an American technology, communications, and security company, headquartered in Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. It is the legal successor of Motorola, Inc., following the spinoff of the mobile phone division into Motorola ...

, an American communications equipment manufacturer

Educational qualifications

Master of Science A Master of Science (; abbreviated MS, M.S., MSc, M.Sc., SM, S.M., ScM or Sc.M.) is a master's degree. In contrast to the Master of Arts degree, the Master of Science degree is typically granted for studies in sciences, engineering and medici ...

, a master's degree in the field of science *

Master of Surgery The Master of Surgery (Latin: Magister Chirurgiae) is an advanced qualification in surgery. Depending upon the degree, it may be abbreviated ChM, MCh, MChir or MS. At a typical medical school the program lasts two to three years. The possessi ...

, an advanced medical degree *

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 worldwide ...

, a terminal degree in the field of wine * ''

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) whic ...

'', a French postgraduate ''grande école'' master's degree

Medicine

Mitral stenosis Mitral stenosis is a valvular heart disease characterized by the Stenosis, narrowing of the opening of the mitral valve of the heart. It is almost always caused by Rheumatic Heart Disease, rheumatic valvular heart disease. Normally, the mitral va ...

, narrowing of the mitral valve of the heart * Morphine sulfate, an opiate pain-relieving drug *

Multiple sclerosis Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease resulting in damage to myelinthe insulating covers of nerve cellsin the brain and spinal cord. As a demyelinating disease, MS disrupts the nervous system's ability to Action potential, transmit ...

, a disease of the nervous system

Military

* Master seaman, 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

Mato Grosso do Sul Mato Grosso do Sul ( ) is one of Federative units of Brazil, Brazil's 27 federal units, located in the southern part of the Central-West Region, Brazil, Central-West Region, bordering five Brazilian states: Mato Grosso (to the north), Goiás and ...

, Brazil, postal code MS *

Mississippi Mississippi ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Deep South regions of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the north, Alabama to the east, the Gulf of Mexico to the south, Louisiana to the s ...

, a U.S. state, official abbreviation *

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, wit ...

, Caribbean island nation (ISO 3166-2 country code: MS)

Religion

* Missionaries of La Salette, a Catholic male religious congregation

Science and technology

Computing

* .ms, the top level Internet domain for Montserrat in the Caribbean *

Master System The is an 8-bit Third generation of video game consoles, third-generation home video game console manufactured and developed by Sega. It was originally a remodeled export version of the Sega Mark III, the third iteration of the SG-1000 series ...

, a third-generation video game console produced by Sega *

, an American-based global software company *

Mobile station A mobile station (MS) comprises all user equipment and software needed for communication with a mobile network. The term refers to the global system connected to the mobile network, i.e. a mobile phone or mobile computer connected using a mobi ...

, a piece of equipment for communication with a mobile network

Units of measure

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 *

Metre per second The metre per second is the unit of both speed (a scalar (physics), scalar quantity) and velocity (a Vector (mathematics and physics), vector quantity, which has direction and magnitude) in the International System of Units (SI), equal to the sp ...

(m/s), a unit of velocity (speed) *

Metre second In kinematics, absement (or absition) is a measure of sustained displacement of an object from its initial position, i.e. a measure of how far away and for how long. The word ''absement'' is a portmanteau of the words ''absence'' and ''displa ...

(m s), a unit of absement (sustained displacement of an object) *

Millisecond A millisecond (from '' milli-'' and second; symbol: ms) is a unit of time in the International System of Units equal to one thousandth (0.001 or 10−3 or 1/1000) of a second or 1000 microseconds. A millisecond is to one second, as one second i ...

(ms), and megasecond (Ms), multiples of the unit of time second

Other uses in science and technology

Surface-wave magnitude The surface wave magnitude (M_s) scale is one of the magnitude scales used in seismology to describe the size of an earthquake. It is based on measurements of Rayleigh surface waves that travel along the uppermost layers of the Earth. This mag ...

(M_s), a seismic scale *

Solar mass The solar mass () is a frequently used unit of mass in astronomy, equal to approximately . It is approximately equal to the mass of the Sun. It is often used to indicate the masses of other stars, as well as stellar clusters, nebulae, galaxie ...

(M_S), an alternate symbol to M_⊙ *

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 used ...

, a method of determining the chemical composition or exact mass of molecules *

, a postgraduate university master's degree *

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 gr ...

, a chemical salt *

Spin quantum number In physics and chemistry, the spin quantum number is a quantum number (designated ) that describes the intrinsic angular momentum (or spin angular momentum, or simply ''spin'') of an electron or other particle. It has the same value for all ...

m_s

Transportation

* Egyptair, by its IATA code "MS" * Motor ship, ship prefix * Chennai Egmore railway station, code MS

Other uses

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 title for women providing no indication of marital status * MS (cigarette), an Italian brand of cigarettes * MS (satellite), a series of four Soviet satellites launched in 1962 *

Malay language Malay ( , ; , Jawi alphabet, Jawi: ) is an Austronesian languages, Austronesian language spoken primarily by Malays (ethnic group), Malays in several islands of Maritime Southeast Asia and the Malay Peninsula on the mainland Asia. The lang ...

, of Southeast Asia (ISO 639-1 language code: ms) *

Manuscript A manuscript (abbreviated MS for singular and MSS for plural) was, traditionally, any document written by hand or typewritten, as opposed to mechanically printed or reproduced in some indirect or automated way. More recently, the term has ...

, abbreviation (ms.) for a written or typed document *

Member of the Senedd A member of the Senedd (MS; plural: ''MSs''; ; , plural: ) is a representative elected to the Senedd (Welsh Parliament; ). There are sixty members, with forty members chosen to represent individual Senedd constituency, Senedd constituencies, a ...

(formerly ''Assembly Member''), Welsh Parliament legislator * Memoriae Sacrum (Latin for "Sacred to the Memory"), an epitaph *

Multan Sultans Multan Sultans is a Pakistani professional Twenty20 franchise cricket team representing Multan, a city in southern Punjab, in the Pakistan Super League (PSL). The team was founded in 2017 as an additional sixth team added to the PSL with contra ...

, a professional Twenty20 franchise cricket team in the Pakistan Super League