MS

MS may refer to:

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

In geography and linguistics:

• Mississippi, a state in 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

In 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

In the 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• Mess Management Specialist, a U.S. Navy occupational rating superseded by the term Culinary Specialist

In medicine:

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

In 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

In 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

In 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

Units

• (M_S), alternate symbol for Solar mass, as opposed to M_⊙
• ms, for Millisecond, a unit of time equal to one thousandth of a second
• M_s, Surface wave magnitude, a type of seismic scale
• mS, or Spesmilo, an obsolete currency unit
• MS, Megasiemens, or mS, millisiemens, units of electric conductance based on the siemens
• m/s, or miles per second

In organizations:

• Microsoft, an American software company
• Microsemi, a semiconductor manufacturer
• 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

In 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
• MS, Metal Storm (webzine), a Metal webzine

See also

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

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