MDS
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MDS may stand for:
- Companies and organizations
- MDS Inc. - a global health and life sciences company
- MDS America Inc. - a global telecommunications company
- Media Design School - a media industry tertiary training institution
- Meridian Southern Railway
- Microwave Data Systems - a wireless modem company
- Mälardalens Student Union (Mälardalens Studentkår) - a Union for students of Mälardalen University in Sweden.
- Technology
- .mds is a file extension for a small file associated with a .mdf disk image, used by programs such as alcohol 120% and DAEMON Tools
- MDS Authentication - An Internet protocol
- Mail Delivery System
- Mandriva Directory Server - An LDAP server developed by Mandriva
- MIDI stream - file format
- Multi-Displacement System - a variable displacement technology from DaimlerChrysler
- Minimum detectable signal, a measure of sensitivity
- Metadata Server, a process at Mac OS X for file search: Spotlight.
- Multilayer Director Switch Cisco Systems for Storage Area Networks
- Other
- Master of Dental Surgery (MDS) - a postgraduate degree used in some former British countries
- Minimum Data Set - clinical data collection format and system used by Medicare and Medicaid in nursing homes.
- Multidimensional scaling - a statistical technique often used in data visualisation.
- Marathon des sables a 270 km Marathon in the south of Morocco
- Martingale difference sequence - a term from the mathematical field of stochastics
- Maximum distance separable code - in mathematical coding theory
- Mission, Design, Series - a US designation system for aircraft and missiles
- Myelodysplastic syndrome - a diverse collection of haematological conditions united by ineffective production of blood cells and varying risks of transformation to acute myelogenous leukemia.
- Modern Day Scenario
- Make Damn Sure
- Manuscript Document Signed - a term used with autograph collecting to describe a document, signed by the author but written in manuscript (generally ink) by someone else
- Million Dollar Spectacular - a special nighttime episode of The Price Is Right.
- Mobility Denial System
- MDs - a short-lived medical drama series on ABC
- Miller-Dieker syndrome - neurological disorder caused by incomplete neuronal migration, causing death between infancy and childhood