MS

MS, Ms, mS, or ms may refer to:

• Ms., an honorific title for women
• Ms. (magazine), an American feminist magazine
• Manuscript, a hand-written document

Geography and linguistics

• Montserrat (.ms), a Caribbean island nation (in ISO 3166-2 country codes)
• Mississippi, a state of the United States
• Mato Grosso do Sul, a state in Brazil
• the Malay language of South-East Asia (in ISO 639-1 language codes)
• Member state, a country belonging to a given international union

Entertainment

Music

• Metal Storm (webzine), a heavy metal website based in Estonia
• M. S. Subbulakshmi, an Indian Carnatic singer

United States:

• Mike Shinoda, the Linkin Park singer songwriter
• Misery Signals, a progressive metalcore band formed in 2002
• Morbid Saint, a 1980s thrash metal band

TV & film

• Mobile Suit, fictional robots from the Gundam anime metaseries

Science and technology

• Mass spectrometry, a method of determining the chemical composition or exact mass of molecules
• M-sigma relation of super-massive black holes
• M.S., or Master of Science, a postgraduate university master's degree
• Ms, abbreviation for Mesylate, a chemical salt
• Molecular sieve, a material containing tiny pores of a precise and uniform size that is used as an adsorbent for gases and liquids.
• Modified Siloxane. MS Polymer

Computing

• Microsoft, an American software company
• Memory Stick, a removable flash memory card format
• .ms the top level Internet domain for Montserrat in the Caribbean
• Mobile station, in GSM system architecture is a station which can freely relocate without any restrictions
• MySpace, a social-networking website

Medicine

• Multiple sclerosis, a chronic, inflammatory, demyelinating disease
• Morphine sulfate, in emergency medicine
• Master of Surgery, an advanced medical degree

Transportation

• Milestone, a roadside distance marker
• Motor ship, or motor vessel, a ship propelled by an engine—sometimes expressed as "M/S"
• EgyptAir's IATA code

Units

• (M_S), alternate symbol for Solar mass, as opposed to M_⊙
• ms, symbol for millisecond, a unit of time equal to one thousandth of a second
• M_s, symbol for surface wave magnitude, a seismic scale
• mS, symbol for spesmilo, an obsolete currency unit
• MS (megasiemens) and mS (millisiemens), symbols for multiples of the unit of electric conductance siemens, equal to one million siemens and one thousandth of a siemens, respectively
• m/s, symbol for metre per second, a unit of speed and velocity
• m/s, symbol for mile per second, a unit of speed and velocity

Military

• Master Seaman, a non-commissioned member rank of the Canadian Navy
• Mess Management Specialist, a U.S. Navy occupational rating superseded by the term Culinary Specialist

Other uses

• Middle school, in Canada and the USA, a school providing intermediate education
• Missionaries of La Salette, a Catholic male religious order
• Morgan Stanley, a US investment bank with NYSE stock ticker symbol MS, and the domain MS.com
• Mara Salvatrucha, large criminal gangs in Central America and the U.S.

See also

• M&S (disambiguation)
• SM (disambiguation)