MPS, M.P.S., MPs, or mps may refer to:

Science and technology

  • Mucopolysaccharidosis, genetic lysosomal storage disorder
  • Mononuclear phagocyte system, cells in mammalian biology
  • Myofascial pain syndrome
  • Metallopanstimulin
  • Potassium peroxymonosulfate, oxidizer commonly used for pools and spas
  • Metre per second (m/s)
  • Matrix product state, method to describe quantum many-body states
  • Marginal propensity to save
  • Mean-preserving spread, in probability and statistics
  • Mail Preference Service, the Robinson list direct mail opt-out system
  • Master Production Schedule, plan for individual commodities to be produced
  • Method Performance Specifications, for analytical validation/verification of laboratory tests and systems required by the College of American Pathologists
  • Myofibrillar Protein Synthesis

Computing

  • Mobile Programming System, by William Waite in the 1960s
  • JetBrains MPS, Meta Programming System
  • MPS (format), the Mathematical Programming System, a computer file format used to describe mathematical programming problems
  • MultiProcessor Specification, Intel specification for multi-processor computers of x86 architecture
  • Moving Particle Semi-implicit Method, a computational method for the simulation of incompressible free surface flows
  • Messages per second, sent or received by a market data system; See Options Price Reporting Authority
  • Minimum Population Search, a computational method that optimizes a problem by iteratively trying to improve a set of candidate solutions
  • Metal Performance Shaders, a collection of highly optimized compute and graphics shaders designed to integrate into apps using Apple's Metal API.

Language

  • Mandarin Phonetic Symbols or Bopomofo (MPS I)
  • Mandarin Phonetic Symbols II

Organizations

  • Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, the oldest extant bank, in Italy
  • MPS Finance, a defunct subsidiary of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena
  • MPS Capital Services, a subsidiary of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena
  • Malmin Palloseura, association football club in Helsinki, Finland
  • Mathematical Programming Society, mathematical society dedicated to optimization
  • Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany
  • Medical Protection Society, supplying legal and ethics support to health professionals
  • Metropolitan Police Service of Greater London, England
  • Mont Pelerin Society, international organization favoring economic liberalism
  • MPS Records, Musik Produktion Schwarzwald (Music Production Black Forest), a jazz record label
  • Monolithic Power Systems, an international semiconductor company

Politics

  • Ministry of Social Security (Brazil), (Portuguese: Ministério da Previdência Social)
  • Ministry of Public Security (disambiguation) of several countries:
  • Ministry of Public Security of the People's Republic of China
  • Ministerstvo Putey Soobshcheniya (Ministry of the Means of Communication) in Russian-language jurisdictions:
  • Ministry of the Means of Communication (Soviet Union)
  • Member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia
  • Mouvement Patriotique de Salut, a political party in Chad
  • Selayang Municipal Council (Malay: Majlis Perbandaran Selayang), a municipal council governing the Gombak District, Malaysia

Education

  • Michael Park School, Waldorf school located in Auckland, New Zealand
  • Maheshwari Public School, Jaipur, India
  • Marymount Primary School, Hong Kong, China

United States

  • Miss Porter's School, an all-girls preparatory school in Farmington, Connecticut
  • Minneapolis Public Schools, large school district in the state of Minnesota
  • Milwaukee Public Schools, largest public education district in the state of Wisconsin
  • Mercyhurst Preparatory School, high school in Erie, Pennsylvania
  • Midland Public Schools, school district in Midland, Michigan
  • Millard Public Schools, school district in Omaha, Nebraska
  • Montgomery Public Schools, a school district in Montgomery County, Alabama
  • Miami Public Schools, Miami, Oklahoma

Other uses

  • Members of Parliament (MPs)
  • Master of Professional Studies, a terminal master's degree
  • Meet-the-People Sessions, where citizens meet their members of parliament in Singapore
  • Multiple Property Submission, to the US National Register of Historic Places
  • Master production schedule, a plan for individual commodities to be produced
  • Mazda Performance Series, Mazdaspeed European version.
  • ssmypics.scr, a screensaver for Microsoft Windows
  • Member of the Preferred Sex
  • Marginal price auction (from Marginal Price System)
  • Multiple Personality Syndrome, an obsolete term for Dissociative identity disorder
  • M. P. Sivagnanam, Indian writer and politician, known simply by his initials M. P. S.
  • Mario Party Superstars, a 2021 party video game for the Nintendo Switch

Transport

  • MPS, the IATA code for Mount Pleasant Regional Airport, Texas
  • MPS, the MRT station abbreviation for MacPherson MRT station, Singapore

See also

  • MP (disambiguation) for topics where "MPS" is treated as the plural form