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

Organizations

  • Brazilian Ministry of Social Development, former name of a federal ministry in Brazil
  • 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
  • Social Democratic Movement (Movimiento Demócrata Social), a political party in Bolivia
  • Museum Data Service, UK non-profit organisation providing online access to museum collection data

Companies

  • MDS America, a telecommunications company
  • 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
  • Microarchitectural Data Sampling, a set of vulnerabilities in Intel processors
  • Cisco MDS, a line of Fibre Channel switches

Medicine

  • Main dressing station, a larger military field hospital
  • Miller–Dieker syndrome, a neurological disorder
  • Minimum Data Set, information collected for US Medicare/Medicaid assessment
  • Myelodysplastic syndrome, one of a group of cancers

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), Turks and Caicos Islands
  • Morden South railway station (National Rail station code), London, England
  • Madison Municipal Airport (South Dakota), Madison, South Dakota, US

Other uses

  • MDs (TV series), a 2002 American medical drama
  • Marathon des Sables (MdS), an ultramarathon held in Morocco
  • Master of Computer Science, a master's degree in North America
  • Master of Dental Surgery
  • Master in Data Science
  • Mission Design Series, a United States Department of Defense aerospace vehicle designation
  • Miriam Defensor Santiago (1945–2016), former senator of the Philippines

See also

  • MD (disambiguation)