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

MS may refer to:

• Ms., an honorific title for women
• Ms. (magazine), an American feminist magazine
• .ms, the Internet country code top-level domain for Montserrat
• Manuscript, a hand-written document
• Mato Grosso do Sul, a state in Brazil
• Mississippi, a state in the United States of America
• Milestone, a roadside distance marker
• MS, an acronym for a "motor ship" or motor vessel, a ship propelled by an engine -- sometimes expressed as "M/S"

In medicine:

• Multiple sclerosis, a chronic, fatal, inflammatory, demyelinating disease
• In emergency medicine an abbreviation for MS Contin.

In music

• Mike Shinoda, the multitalented member of Linkin Park and Fort Minor
• Misery Signals, a progressive metalcore band formed in Wisconsin in 2002.
• Morbid Saint, 1980s Thrash/Death Metal Band famous for releasing only one album, Spectrum of Death.

In science and technology:

• Surface wave magnitude (M_s), a type of seismic scale.
• Mass spectrometry, a method of determining the chemical composition or exact mass of molecules
• Master of Science, a postgraduate university Master's degree
• Master of Science in Information Technology, a postgraduate university Master's degree in IT
• Master of Surgery, an advanced medical degree
• Megasiemens (MS) or millisiemens (mS), units of electric conductance based on the siemens
• Millisecond ms, a unit of time equal to one thousandth of a second
• Motor ship, a ship propelled by motor
• Mesylate, as Ms, abrevation for Mesyl or Mesylate
• M-sigma relation of supermassive black holes
• Mobile station, referring to a station which can freely relocate without any restrictions. Term used heavily in GSM system architecture to refer to a single logical modem or mobile phone unit.

In organisations:

• Microsoft, an American software company
• Morgan Stanley, a US investment bank with NYSE stock ticker symbol MS, and the domain MS.com
• EgyptAir's IATA code
• Middle school, in Canada and the USA, a school providing intermediate education
• 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• Mess Management Specialist, a U.S. Navy occupational rating superseded by the term Culinary Specialist
• MySpace, a social-networking website

In other uses:

• M. S. Subbulakshmi, well renowned Indian Carnatic musician.
• Metal Storm (webzine), A Metal webzine often shortened by users as MS.
• Malay language's ISO 639-1 language code
• Mara Salvatrucha, large criminal gangs in Central America and the U.S.
• Mobile Suit, fictional technological machinery of the Gundam universe
• Spesmilo, an obsolete currency unit whose symbol resembles mS
• Moyenne section, a French section equivalent to junior kindergarten
• Maplestory, popular in-game abbreviation used also in forums
• Persian Imperial Year or Shahanshahi

[edit] See also

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

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