MDS

MDS may stand for:

Companies and organizations

• MDS Inc., a global health and life sciences company
• MDS America, a global telecommunications company
• Media Design School (New Zealand), a media industry tertiary training institution
• Mennonite Disaster Service, a disaster relief volunteer group
• Meridian Southern Railway
• Microwave Data Systems, a wireless modem company
• MDS Gateways, a telecommunications company based in Ireland
• 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

Technology

• .mds, a file extension associated with disk image descriptions
• Mandriva Directory Server, an LDAP server
• MIDI stream, a file format
• Multi-Displacement System, a variable displacement technology from DaimlerChrysler
• Minimum detectable signal, a measure of sensitivity
• mds, the Mac OS X "metadata server" daemon supporting its Spotlight feature
• Multilayer Director Switch, a storage area network component
• Meta Data Services

Other

• Minimum Data Set, a clinical data collection format and system used by Medicare and Medicaid in nursing homes
• Multidimensional scaling, a statistical technique often used in data visualisation
• Marathon des Sables, an ultramarathon held in Morocco
• Martingale difference sequence, a type of stochastic series in probability theory
• Maund, a unit of measurement used in India and Central Asia
• Maximum distance separable code, a mathematical coding theory concept
• Mission Design Series, a United States Department of Defense aerospace vehicle designation
• Myelodysplastic syndrome, a diverse collection of haematological conditions
• "MakeDamnSure", a song by Taking Back Sunday
• MDs (TV series)
• Miller-Dieker syndrome, a neurological disorder
• MyDeathSpace.com, a website

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