| Acronym | Definition |
|---|
| ADS | Active Directory Services |
| ADS | American Depository Share (international financial instrument) |
| ADS | Address (logging abbreviation) |
| ADS | Alliance Data Systems (Dallas, TX) |
| ADS | Advanced Design System (Agilent EEsof) |
| ADS | Automatic Dependent Surveillance |
| ADS | Astrophysics Data System (NASA) |
| ADS | Adult Day Services |
| ADS | Approved Destination Status (bilateral tourism arrangement) |
| ADS | Advanced Drainage Systems (type of HDPE culvert) |
| ADS | Alternate Data Stream |
| ADS | American Dialect Society |
| ADS | Application Development System |
| ADS | Active Denial System |
| ADS | Archaeology Data Service (University of York, UK) |
| ADS | Adaptive Damping System (Mercedes-Benz automobiles) |
| ADS | Aufmerksamkeitsdefizitsyndrom (German) |
| ADS | Advantage Database Server (database managment) |
| ADS | Automated Document(ation) System |
| ADS | Alternative Depreciation System (IRS) |
| ADS | Alcohol and Drug Services |
| ADS | Application Data Sheet |
| ADS | Advanced Data Systems |
| ADS | Accelerator Driven System |
| ADS | American Daffodil Society |
| ADS | American Driving Society |
| ADS | Association of Diesel Specialists |
| ADS | Air Data System |
| ADS | American Dahlia Society |
| ADS | Air Defense Sector |
| ADS | Attention Deficit Syndrome |
| ADS | Audio Distribution System |
| ADS | Advanced Deployable System |
| ADS | Advanced Distributed Simulation |
| ADS | After Dinner Speaking |
| ADS | Applied Digital Solutions, Inc |
| ADS | Advanced Digital System |
| ADS | Alternative Delivery System |
| ADS | Automated Data System |
| ADS | Activity Data Sheet |
| ADS | Aitken Double Star (astronomy catalog) |
| ADS | Authoritative Data Sources |
| ADS | AutoCAD Development System |
| ADS | Application Development Solution |
| ADS | Air Demonstration Squadron |
| ADS | Atmospheric Diving Suit |
| ADS | Autograph Document Signed |
| ADS | Automatic Distribution System |
| ADS | Attitude Determination System |
| ADS | Atlantic Data Services |
| ADS | Advanced Detection System |
| ADS | Association for Dressings and Sauces |
| ADS | Agent/Distributor Service |
| ADS | Air Data Sensor |
| ADS | Alaska Dental Society |
| ADS | Aerial Delivery System |
| ADS | Associate Director of Science (CDC) |
| ADS | Automated Deployment Service (Microsoft) |
| ADS | Autonomous Decentralized System |
| ADS | Alpha Delta Sigma (national honor society) |
| ADS | Advertisement and Discovery of Services |
| ADS | Airdrop System (C-5) |
| ADS | Aeronautical Design Standard |
| ADS | American Druze Society |
| ADS | Architectural Design Session |
| ADS | Automatic Depressurization System |
| ADS | Application Development Standards |
| ADS | Area Denial System |
| ADS | Advanced Display System |
| ADS | Ambulatory Data System |
| ADS | Assistant Director Skinner (X-Files character) |
| ADS | Accreditation Data System |
| ADS | Application Delivery Strategy |
| ADS | Auxiliary Data System |
| ADS | Average Dollar Sales (retail business metric) |
| ADS | Additional Data Sheet |
| ADS | Aegis Display System |
| ADS | Advanced Diabetes Supply (Carlsbad, CA) |
| ADS | Air Defense Squadron (SAGE) |
| ADS | Antenna Distribution System |
| ADS | Annular Denuder System |
| ADS | Air Defense Suppression |
| ADS | Aim Down the Sight (video games; aka Aim Down the Scope) |
| ADS | Advance Disposal Surcharge |
| ADS | Azimuth Determining System |
| ADS | Angular Displacement Sensor |
| ADS | Auto Data Switch |
| ADS | Advanced Data Service (Sprint - Group) |
| ADS | Automatic Defense System |
| ADS | Ad Sectam (Latin: at the suit of) |
| ADS | Automated Disbursing System |
| ADS | Accessory Drive System |
| ADS | Active Duty Support |
| ADS | Automatic Debiting System |
| ADS | Ada Development System |
| ADS | Antex Data Systems |
| ADS | Airport & Desktop Services (SITA) |
| ADS | Archive and Distribution Segment |
| ADS | Address Data Strobe |
| ADS | Army Development System |
| ADS | Altitude Decompression Sickness |
| ADS | All Digital Simulation |
| ADS | Active Database System |
| ADS | Airspace Deconfliction System |
| ADS | Antidiuretic Substance |
| ADS | Advanced Degaussing System |
| ADS | air defense section (US DoD) |
| ADS | Analog Distribution System |
| ADS | Advanced Distribution System, Inc. |
| ADS | Accreditation Documentation Set |
| ADS | Airdrop Delivery System (C-17) |
| ADS | Airlift Defensive System |
| ADS | Area Detection System |
| ADS | Access Data Support |
| ADS | Aligned Documentation System |
| ADS | amphibian discharge site (US DoD) |
| ADS | Acquisition Data System |
| ADS | Advanced Digital Switch |
| ADS | Alert Distribution System (Sprint) |
| ADS | Acquisition Display System |
| ADS | Advertisement Subsystem (JAXA) |
| ADS | Associated Directory Services (SBC - Affiliate) |
| ADS | Acoustic Detection Sensor |
| ADS | Average Distance Spectrum |
| ADS | Administration of Designed Services |
| ADS | Adapted Dysfunctional State |
| ADS | Advanced Decommutation System |
| ADS | Automated Documentation Software |
| ADS | Asynchronous Data Set |
| ADS | Australian Dancing Society Ltd |
| ADS | Alent Design Solutions |
| ADS | Auxiliary Display System |
| ADS | Access Distribution Switch (ADC) |
| ADS | Airworthiness Directives Subsystem |
| ADS | Attitude to Disabilities Scale |
| ADS | Automated Digital Switch |
| ADS | Automatic Data Selection |
| ADS | Analyzer Detecting Set |
| ADS | Adaptive Dataport System (Verilink) |
| ADS | Administrative Discharge Section |
| ADS | Administrative Domain Server (Alcatel) |
| ADS | Advanced Deep-Dive System |
| ADS | Air Deployable Deception Device |
| ADS | Ammunition Drive System |
| ADS | Artillery Delivered Sensor |
| ADS | ARTS Development System |
| ADS | Approval Data Submittals |
| ADS | Automatic Data Services Center (Air Force Office) |
| ADS | Amcor American Depositary Shares |
| ADS | Aquitaine Dépannage Service (French automotive repair company) |
| ADS | Adaptive Diagnostics System |
| ADS | Addisod, TX (Near Dallas) Airport Code |
| ADS | Approved Demand Statement (various companies) |
| ADS | Australian Diabetes Association |
| ADS | After Downing Street (political organization) |
| ADS | Art Deco Society (various locations) |
| ADS | Atmospheric Dive System (US Navy) |
| ADS | American Data Services |
| ADS | Application Development Services |
| ADS | Abstract Data Structure (computer programming) |
| ADS | Adobe Document Services (Web service) |