# MDS

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

## Organizations

- [Brazilian Ministry of Social Development](/source/Brazilian_Ministry_of_Social_Development), former name of a federal ministry in Brazil
- [Mennonite Disaster Service](/source/Mennonite_Disaster_Service), a disaster relief volunteer group
- [Movement for Socialist Democracy](/source/Movement_for_Socialist_Democracy) (*Mouvement pour la Démocratie Socialiste*), a former political party in Burkina Faso
- [Movement of Socialist Democrats](/source/Movement_of_Socialist_Democrats) (*Mouvement des Démocrates Socialistes*), a political party in Tunisia
- [Social Democratic Movement](/source/Social_Democratic_Movement) (*Movimiento Demócrata Social*), a political party in Bolivia
- [Museum Data Service](/source/Museum_Data_Service), UK non-profit organisation providing online access to museum collection data

### Companies

- [MDS America](/source/MDS_America), a telecommunications company
- [MDS Inc.](/source/MDS_Inc.), a healthcare company
- [Microwave Data Systems](/source/Microwave_Data_Systems), a wireless modem company
- [Mohawk Data Sciences Corporation](/source/Mohawk_Data_Sciences_Corporation), a computer company

## Science and technology

- [Minimum detectable signal](/source/Minimum_detectable_signal), a measure of sensitivity
- [Molybdenum disulfide](/source/Molybdenum_disulfide), a compound added to some plastics to make parts more slippery
- [Multi-Displacement System](/source/Multi-Displacement_System), a Chrysler automobile technology

### Computing

- [.mds](/source/.mds), a file extension associated with disk image descriptions
- [MDS 2400](/source/MDS_2400), a computer
- [Mandriva Directory Server](/source/Mandriva_Directory_Server), an LDAP server
- [Microsoft SQL Server Master Data Services](/source/Microsoft_SQL_Server_Master_Data_Services), a database management product
- mds, a daemon in macOS [Spotlight](/source/Spotlight_(Apple))
- [Microarchitectural Data Sampling](/source/Microarchitectural_Data_Sampling), a set of vulnerabilities in Intel processors
- Cisco MDS, a line of [Fibre Channel switches](/source/List_of_Fibre_Channel_switches)

### Medicine

- Main [dressing station](/source/Dressing_station), a larger military field hospital
- [Miller–Dieker syndrome](/source/Miller%E2%80%93Dieker_syndrome), a neurological disorder
- [Minimum Data Set](/source/Minimum_Data_Set), information collected for US Medicare/Medicaid assessment
- [Myelodysplastic syndrome](/source/Myelodysplastic_syndrome), one of a group of cancers

### Mathematics

- [Martingale difference sequence](/source/Martingale_difference_sequence), in probability theory
- [Maximum distance separable code](/source/Maximum_distance_separable_code), in mathematical coding theory
- [Multidimensional scaling](/source/Multidimensional_scaling), a statistical technique

## Transport

- [Meridian Southern Railway](/source/Meridian_Southern_Railway), in Mississippi, US
- [Middle Caicos Airport](/source/Middle_Caicos_Airport) (IATA code), Turks and Caicos Islands
- [Morden South railway station](/source/Morden_South_railway_station) (National Rail station code), London, England
- [Madison Municipal Airport (South Dakota)](/source/Madison_Municipal_Airport_(South_Dakota)), Madison, South Dakota, US

## Other uses

- [*MDs* (TV series)](/source/MDs_(TV_series)), a 2002 American medical drama
- *[Marathon des Sables](/source/Marathon_des_Sables)* (*MdS*), an ultramarathon held in Morocco
- [Master of Computer Science](/source/Master_of_Computer_Science), a master's degree in North America
- [Master of Dental Surgery](/source/Master_of_Dental_Surgery)
- [Master in Data Science](/source/Master_in_Data_Science)
- [Mission Design Series](/source/Mission_Design_Series), a United States Department of Defense aerospace vehicle designation
- [Miriam Defensor Santiago](/source/Miriam_Defensor_Santiago) (1945–2016), former senator of the Philippines

## See also

- [MD (disambiguation)](/source/MD_(disambiguation))

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