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'''MDS''' or '''M.D.S.''' may refer to:
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==Organizations==
* [[Brazilian Ministry of Social Development]], former name of a federal ministry in Brazil
* [[Mennonite Disaster Service]], a disaster relief volunteer group
* [[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
* [[Museum Data Service]], UK non-profit organisation providing online access to museum collection data

===Companies===
* [[MDS America]], a telecommunications company
* [[MDS Inc.]], a healthcare company
* [[Microwave Data Systems]], a wireless modem company
* [[Mohawk Data Sciences Corporation]], a computer company

==Science and technology==
* [[Minimum detectable signal]], a measure of sensitivity
* [[Molybdenum disulfide]], a compound added to some plastics to make parts more slippery
* [[Multi-Displacement System]], a Chrysler automobile technology

===Computing===
* [[.mds]], a file extension associated with disk image descriptions
* [[MDS 2400]], a computer
* [[Mandriva Directory Server]], an LDAP server
* [[Microsoft SQL Server Master Data Services]], a database management product
* mds, a daemon in macOS [[Spotlight (Apple)|Spotlight]]
* [[Microarchitectural Data Sampling]], a set of vulnerabilities in Intel processors
* Cisco MDS, a line of [[List of Fibre Channel switches|Fibre Channel switches]]

===Medicine===
* Main [[dressing station]], a larger military field hospital
* [[Miller–Dieker syndrome]], a neurological disorder
* [[Minimum Data Set]], information collected for US Medicare/Medicaid assessment
* [[Myelodysplastic syndrome]], one of a group of cancers

===Mathematics===
* [[Martingale difference sequence]], in probability theory
* [[Maximum distance separable code]], in mathematical coding theory
* [[Multidimensional scaling]], a statistical technique

==Transport==
* [[Meridian Southern Railway]], in Mississippi, US
* [[Middle Caicos Airport]] (IATA code), Turks and Caicos Islands
* [[Morden South railway station]] (National Rail station code), London, England
* [[Madison Municipal Airport (South Dakota)]], Madison, South Dakota, US

==Other uses==
* [[MDs (TV series)|''MDs'' (TV series)]], a 2002 American medical drama
* ''[[Marathon des Sables]]'' (''MdS''), an ultramarathon held in Morocco
* [[Master of Computer Science]], a master's degree in North America
* [[Master of Dental Surgery]]
* [[Mission Design Series]], a United States Department of Defense aerospace vehicle designation
* [[Miriam Defensor Santiago]] (1945–2016), former senator of the Philippines

==See also==
* [[MD (disambiguation)]]

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