DMS may refer to:

Science and technology

Computing

  • Data Management System, component of VM/CMS
  • Document management system
  • Digital Media Server, a category within the Digital Living Network Alliance standard
  • Disk Masher System, compression software for the Amiga computer
  • Unisys DMS, a Unisys OS 2200 database
  • Unisys DMSII
  • Digital Microsystems, Inc., an early microcomputer company
  • Digital Multiplex System, a telephone exchange system
  • Dealership management system, for car dealerships
  • DMS Software Reengineering Toolkit, program transformation tools
  • DMS-59, a video connector supporting two displays

Chemistry and materials science

  • Differential mobility spectrometry in ion-mobility spectrometry–mass spectrometry
  • Dilute magnetic semiconductor, semiconductors with magnetic properties
  • Dimethyl sulfate, a methylating agent
  • Dimethyl sulfide, an organosulfur compound
  • N,N-Dimethylsphingosine
  • Dimethylstilbestrol, a nonsteroidal estrogen

Other uses in science and technology

  • Data management and sharing, an abbreviation used by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in connection with a policy on data management plans updated in 2023 (sharing.nih.gov)
  • Dead man's switch
  • Degree-Minute-Second, sexagesimal degree divisions
  • Diagnostic medical sonography, in ultrasound imaging
  • Distribution management system, of electrical energy
  • Dynamic message sign, a variable-message traffic sign
  • Delusional misidentification syndrome - a class of mental delusions, caused by various neurological diseases.
  • Driver Monitoring System - monitors that the driver of a car is awake and alert

Education

  • Delft Management Society, a student society of Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
  • Post-Graduate Diploma in Management Studies (post-nominal letters D.M.S.)
  • Doctor of Medical Science, a professional doctorate for physician assistants (post-nominal letters DMS or DMSc)
  • Dartmouth Medical School
  • Demonstration Multipurpose School (DMS), Mysore, India

Military

  • Decoration for Meritorious Services, South Africa until 1987
  • Defence Medical Services, United Kingdom
  • Defense Message System, in the United States Department of Defense
  • Director Medical Services (UK), Army Medical Services
  • Distinguished Military Service Medal, Papua New Guinea
  • DMS, United States Navy hull classification symbol for a destroyer minesweeper
  • DMS boots (for "direct moulded sole"), a type of military footwear
  • DMS Maritime, providing services to the Australian navy

Other uses

  • Design Manufacture Service, an outsourcing business model
  • Daimler/Leyland Fleetline London Transport double-decker bus prefix
  • Diminishing manufacturing sources

See also

  • DM (disambiguation)
  • DOMS (disambiguation)