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== Organizations == |
== Organizations == |
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* [[Microsoft]], an American software company |
* [[Microsoft]], an American software company |
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* [[Microsemi]], a semiconductor manufacturer |
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* [[Middle school]], in Canada and the USA, a school providing intermediate education |
* [[Middle school]], in Canada and the USA, a school providing intermediate education |
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* [[Missionaries of La Salette]], a Catholic male religious order |
* [[Missionaries of La Salette]], a Catholic male religious order |
Revision as of 22:41, 26 September 2012
MS may refer to:
- Ms., an honorific title for women
- Ms. (magazine), an American feminist magazine
- Manuscript, a hand-written document
Geography and linguistics
- Mississippi, a U.S. state of the United States of America
- Mato Grosso do Sul, a state in Brazil
- .ms, the Internet country code top-level domain for Montserrat
- Malay language's ISO 639-1 language code
Entertainment
- Moonshot, in OGame it is the act of sending ships, often intentionally, at another player for the purpose of being destroyed and giving the receiving player the chance at receiving a moon
- Mobile Suit, fictional technological machinery of the Gundam universe
- MapleStory, popular in-game abbreviation used also in forums
Music
- Mike Shinoda, member of Linkin Park and Fort Minor
- Misery Signals, a progressive metalcore band formed in Wisconsin in 2002
- Morbid Saint, a 1980s thrash metal band
- MS, Metal Storm (webzine), a heavy metal webzine
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
- Mobile station, in GSM system architecture is a station which can freely relocate without any restrictions
- Molecular sieve, a material containing tiny pores of a precise and uniform size that is used as an adsorbent for gases and liquids.
- Memory Stick, a removable flash memory card format
- Modified Siloxane. MS Polymer
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
- (MS), alternate symbol for Solar mass, as opposed to M⊙
- ms, symbol for millisecond, a unit of time equal to one thousandth of a second
- Ms, 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
Organizations
- Microsoft, an American software company
- 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
- MySpace, a social-networking website
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
- M. S. Subbulakshmi, well renowned Indian Carnatic musician
- Mara Salvatrucha, large criminal gangs in Central America and the U.S.
- Member state, member of an international union such as the United Nations