MS

MS, ms, Ms, or mS is a common abbreviation that can mean a large number of things.

ms may stand for:

millisecond, an SI unit of time
The Iso 639-1 language code for Malay

mS may stand for:

millisiemens, an SI unit of conductance

Ms may stand for:

Ms., a female title
Ms. magazine
In seismology, the surface wave magnitude, a measurement of an earthquake

MS may refer to:

MS is the stock ticker for Wall Street firm Morgan Stanley
One of the following standardised ID codes:
* The Iso 3166-1 country code for Montserrat
* The IATA airline designator for EgyptAir
* A ship prefix (nautical vessel designation) for a motor ship used in most countries
* In the United States:
**The postal abbreviation for the U.S. state of Mississippi
**The AAR reporting mark for the Michigan Shore Railroad

MS may stand for:

In arts:

A manuscript (plural: MSS)
M.S. Subbulakshmi, the Indian carnatic singer

In education:

In medicine:

In science:

Mean square (or mean of the squares of a set of data)
Mass spectrometry or a mass spectrometer
Murashige and Skoog medium

In computing:

Microsoft, the US software company
MySpace, a blogging website

In computer gaming:

Macrosutra, a software company and package
Magestorm, a first-person shooter game
Sega Master System, an 8-bit video game system
Minesweeper (computer game), a two-dimensional puzzle game
MapleStory, a Korean-produced 2-D side-scrolling MMORPG
Metal Sonic, the robotic counterpart of Sonic the Hedgehog
Metal Slug, a run and gun video game for the Neo-Geo console/arcade platform created by SNK
Mother ship

In other uses:

Mara Salvatrucha, a Central American street gang
Military science, the study of the technical, psychological, practical and other phenomena which constitute warfare and armed conflict
Member state, in EU politics
Memory Stick, a removable flash memory card format, launched by Sony
Mobile suit, technological machinery from the Gundam anime universe
Mild Seven, a cigarette brand

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