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

Organizations

* Brazilian Ministry of Social Development * Mennonite Disaster Service, a disaster relief volunteer group * Movement for Socialist Democracy (''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, a telecommunications company * MDS Gateways, a telecommunications company in Ireland * MDS Inc., a healthcare company * Microwave Data Systems, a wireless modem company * Mohawk Data Sciences Corporation, a computer company

Science and technology

* Minimum detectable signal, a measure of sensitivity * Molybdenum disulfide, a compound added to some plastics to make parts more slippery * Multi-Displacement System, a Chrysler automobile technology

Computing

* .mds, a file extension associated with disk image descriptions * MDS 2400, a computer * Mandriva Directory Server, an LDAP server * Microsoft SQL Server Master Data Services, a database management product * mds, a daemon in macOS Spotlight (software), 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 List of Fibre Channel switches, 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, in Mississippi, US * Middle Caicos Airport, IATA code * Morden South railway station, London, National Rail station code

Other uses

* MDs (TV series), ''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