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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==