MDS
MDS stands for:
- Marathon des Sables , a demanding multi-stage ultra marathon in the Moroccan Sahara
- Maximum Distance Separable , MDS code , a class of codes in coding theory
- Minimum discernible (detectable) signal , see receiver sensitivity
- M. DuMont Schauberg , German publishing house based in Cologne
- Media Descriptor Image , see list of filename extensions / M
- Medical Data Sciences , MDS, now Nordion , Canadian pharmaceutical and medical technology company
- Međimurski demokratski savez (Croat.), Democratic Alliance Međimurje , a regional political party in Croatia
- Medical service of the National Association of Health Insurance Funds , advisory organization of the National Association of Health Insurance Funds and the central associations of statutory health and long-term care insurance funds on fundamental medical and nursing questions
- Middle Caicos , Middle Caicos Airport, Turks and Caicos Islands, British overseas territory in the Atlantic Ocean according to the IATA code
- Minimum Data Set , module of the Resident Assessment Instrument in medical statistics
- Mobile Data Service , component of the Blackberry application development architecture from RIM
- Multi-dimensional scaling , a multivariate method of statistics
- Myelodysplastic syndrome , a disease of the bone marrow
- Deisenhofen station according to DS 100
- Ministry of Defense of East Timor
mds stands for:
- Maria (Manubaran language) (ISO-639-3 code), one of the Manubaran languages within the Trans New Guinea languages , Southeast Papua New Guinea
- Metadata Server , process under Mac OS X, see Spotlight (software)
