MDS

MDS or M.D.S. may refer to:

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

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
 * Microarchitectural Data Sampling, a set of vulnerabilities in Intel processors
 * Cisco MDS, a line of 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

Other uses

 * 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