MDS or M.D.S. may refer to: Organizations Brazilian Ministry of Social Development 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 Gateways, a telecommunications company in Ireland 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 Minimum Data Set (MDS) used to define the smallest acceptable set of data items in a report or a message between two computer systems (interoperability) Cisco MDS, a line of Fibre Channel switches Master of Computer Science Medicine Miller–Dieker syndrome, a neurological disorder Minimum Data Set, information collected for US Medicare/Medicaid asessement Myelodysplastic syndrome 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 Morden South railway station, London, National Rail station code Other uses MDs (TV series), a 2002 American medical drama Marathon des Sables, an ultramarathon held in Morocco 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