EDS

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EDS may refer to:

• Earth Departure Stage, a rocket stage forming part of NASA's project Constellation
• Educational Specialist (Ed.S.), a terminal academic degree in the U.S.
• European Democrat Students, a Christian Democratic students union
• EdS, registered trademark for natural perfumes and cosmetics, very low irritating and insignificant allergic potential
• Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a group of heritable connective tissue disorders
• Electrodynamic suspension, a type of magnetic levitation
• Electronic Data Systems, a Global Information Technology services company
• Electronic Document System, an early graphical hypertext system
• Electronic Drilling System, a control system used on oil drilling rigs
• Emergency Detection System, a component of NASA's Apollo Spacecraft used to automatically trigger an abort during the launch sequence.
• Episodic Dyscontrol Syndrome, a pattern of episodic, abnormal, and often violent and uncontrollable social behavior with little or no provocation; it may result from diseases of the limbic system or the temporal lobe or may accompany abuse of alcohol or some other psychoactive substance.
• Ethylene Dimethyl Sulfonate, a drug used in temporary sterilization in rats relating to hormone controlled neoplasia
• Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, a method used to determine the energy spectrum of X-ray radiation
• Environmental Defence Society, a New Zealand environmental organisation
• Episcopal Divinity School, an Episcopal Seminary in Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Evansville Day School, an independent college-prep school in Evansville, Indiana
• Event Distribution System or Server, a network entity or subsystem that manages event notification distribution
• Excessive Daytime Sleepiness, a sleep disorder symptom, specially common in Sleep Apnea and Narcolepsy
• Explosive Detection System, a mechanism for detecting explosive material
• Extended Data Services (now XDS), a standard for the delivery of metadata on NTSC video signals