MDS

MDS may stand for:

Companies and organizations
  • MDS Inc., a global health and life sciences company
  • MDS America, a global telecommunications company
  • Media Design School (New Zealand), a media industry tertiary training institution
  • Mennonite Disaster Service, a disaster relief volunteer group
  • Meridian Southern Railway
  • Microwave Data Systems, a wireless modem company
  • MDS Gateways, a telecommunications company based in Ireland
  • 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
Technology
  • .mds, a file extension associated with disk image descriptions
  • Mandriva Directory Server, an LDAP server
  • MIDI stream, a file format
  • Multi-Displacement System, a variable displacement technology from DaimlerChrysler
  • Minimum detectable signal, a measure of sensitivity
  • mds, the Mac OS X "metadata server" daemon supporting its Spotlight feature
  • Multilayer Director Switch, a storage area network component
  • Meta Data Services
Medicine
  • Myelodysplastic syndrome, a diverse collection of haematological conditions
  • Miller-Dieker syndrome, a neurological disorder
Education
  • M.D.S., Master of Dental Surgery, a post-graduate degree in the field of Dentistry, awarded in south-Asian countries including India
Other
  • Minimum Data Set, a 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, an ultramarathon held in Morocco
  • Martingale difference sequence, a type of stochastic series in probability theory
  • Maund, a unit of measurement used in India and Central Asia
  • Maximum distance separable code, a mathematical coding theory concept
  • Mission Design Series, a United States Department of Defense aerospace vehicle designation
  • Mushroom Distribution Services, a Festival Mushroom Records/Warner Bros. Records label.
  • "MakeDamnSure", a song by Taking Back Sunday
  • MDs (TV series)
  • MyDeathSpace.com, a website