MS

Look up MS, Ms, ms, or .ms in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

MS, ms, Ms, M.S., etc. may refer to:

Arts and publishing

• Manuscript, a handwritten document
• MapleStory, a massively multiplayer online game
• Mobile Suit, fictional robots from the Gundam Japanese anime series
• Ms., an American feminist magazine

Music

• M. S. Subbulakshmi (1916–2004), an Indian Carnatic singer
• Metal Storm (webzine), a heavy metal website based in Estonia
• Mike Shinoda (born 1977), Linkin Park singer songwriter
• Misery Signals, a progressive metalcore band formed in 2002
• Morbid Saint, a 1980s thrash metal band

Medicine

• Master of Surgery, an advanced medical degree
• Mitral stenosis, narrowing of the orifice of the mitral valve of the heart, often resulting in heart disease
• Morphine sulfate, an analgesic and component of opium used to treat severe pain or as a street drug
• Multiple sclerosis, a chronic inflammatory disease of the nervous system that can cause a variety of often severe symptoms

Military

• Master Seaman, a non-commissioned member rank of the Canadian Navy
• Mess Management Specialist, a former U.S. Navy occupational rating

Organizations

• Mara Salvatrucha, large criminal gangs in Central America and the United States
• Member state, a country belonging to a given international union
• Middle school, a school providing intermediate education
• Missionaries of La Salette, a Catholic male religious order
• Morgan Stanley, a US investment bank (NYSE stock symbol: US)

Places

• Majeerteen Sultanate, a kingdom in northern Somalia
• Mato Grosso do Sul, a state in Brazil
• Mississippi, a state of the United States (official abbreviation: MS)
• Mureș County, a county in Romania
• Montserrat, a Caribbean island nation (ISO 3166-2 country code: MS)
• Mandeb Strait, a path between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden

Science and technology

• M-sigma relation, in astronomy, relating to super-massive black holes
• Mass spectrometry, a method of determining the chemical composition or exact mass of molecules
• Master of Science, a postgraduate university master's degree (M.S.)
• Mesylate, a chemical salt
• MS polymers, modified-silane polymers, chemical compounds used in adhesives and sealants
• Molecular sieve, a material containing tiny pores of a precise and uniform size that is used as an adsorbent for gases and liquids

Computing

• .ms, the top level Internet domain for Montserrat in the Caribbean
• Memory Stick, a removable flash memory card format
• Microsoft, an American based global software company
• Mobile station, user equipment and software needed for communication with a mobile network
• MySpace, a social-networking website

Units

• Megasiemens (MS) and millisiemens (mS), multiples of the unit of electric conductance siemens
• metre per second (m/s), a unit of velocity (speed)
• mile per second (m/s), a unit of velocity (speed)
• millisecond (ms), a unit of time equal to one thousandth of a second
• Solar mass (M_S), an alternate symbol to M_⊙
• Surface wave magnitude (M_s), a seismic scale

Transportation

• EgyptAir, by its IATA code "MS"
• Milestone, a roadside distance marker
• Motor ship, or motor vessel, a ship propelled by an engine
• Chennai Egmore railway station, code MS

Other uses

• Malay language, of South-East Asia (ISO 639-1 language code: MS)
• Ms., a common title for women that does not indicate marital status
• mS (spesmilo), an obsolete currency unit

See also

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