| Acronym | Definition |
|---|
| MDS | Material Data Sheet |
| MDS | Master of Dental Surgery |
| MDS | Minimum Data Set |
| MDS | Multidimensional Scaling (statistical technique) |
| MDS | Massachusetts Dental Society |
| MDS | Mine (Punch And) Drain Station |
| MDS | Modifications |
| MDS | Myelodysplastic Syndrome |
| MDS | Multi-Dimensional Scaling (data visualization) |
| MDS | Mennonite Disaster Service |
| MDS | Multipoint Distribution Service |
| MDS | Master Data Services (Microsoft Corp.) |
| MDS | Mission Data System |
| MDS | Mouvement des Démocrates Socialistes (Movement of Democratic Socialists, Tunisia) |
| MDS | Maximum-Distance Separable |
| MDS | Market Data Services |
| MDS | Monitoring and Discovery System (Globus Alliance) |
| MDS | Mission Design Series |
| MDS | Miller-Dieker Syndrome |
| MDS | Medical Decision Support |
| MDS | Managed Dedicated Server |
| MDS | Ministerio de Desarrollo Social (Spanish) |
| MDS | Minimum Detectable Signal |
| MDS | Medium Deep Survey (Hubble Space Telescope project) |
| MDS | Minimum Discernible Signal |
| MDS | Medical Squadron (US Air Force) |
| MDS | Mission Design & Series |
| MDS | Mideast Data Systems (Lebanon) |
| MDS | Multi-Dimensional Space |
| MDS | Multilayer Director Switch (Cisco Systems Inc.) |
| MDS | Maintenance Data System |
| MDS | Microwave Design System |
| MDS | Microprocessor Development System |
| MDS | Medical Device Software |
| MDS | Mail Delivery System |
| MDS | Microwave Distribution System |
| MDS | Maintenance Diagnostic System |
| MDS | Mobility Denial System |
| MDS | Meta Data Service |
| MDS | Meteorological Data System |
| MDS | Manpower Data System (Air Force data system used to manage authorizations) |
| MDS | Mind Distortion System (music album) |
| MDS | Moravská Demokratická Strana (Moravian Democratic Party; Czech Republic) |
| MDS | Modular Decontamination System |
| MDS | Multiple Data Set |
| MDS | Master Demand Schedule (shipping schedule software) |
| MDS | Mount de Sales Academy |
| MDS | Multicast Distributed Switching (Cisco) |
| MDS | Message Distribution System |
| MDS | Modular Design System |
| MDS | Mission Distribution System |
| MDS | Malfunction Detection System |
| MDS | Manufacturing Design System |
| MDS | Mud Dump Site (USACE) |
| MDS | Medical Diagnostic System |
| MDS | Marin Day Schools (California) |
| MDS | Minimum Distance Separation Formulae (land planning tool; Ministry of Agriculture, Food & Rural Affairs; Ontario, Canada) |
| MDS | MOPAR Diagnostic System |
| MDS | Mission Data Set |
| MDS | Model/Design/Series |
| MDS | Master of Dental Sciences (degree; various universities) |
| MDS | Minimum Essential Emergency Communications |
| MDS | Major Development Site |
| MDS | Massively Distributed Systems |
| MDS | Multifunction Display System |
| MDS | Message Dissemination Subsystem (USMC) |
| MDS | Multimedia Design Studio |
| MDS | Mission Display System |
| MDS | Manned Destructive Suppression |
| MDS | Material Dominated Scheduling |
| MDS | Memory Disk System |
| MDS | Marchands de Sable |
| MDS | My Death Space (website) |
| MDS | Maladies Transmises Sexuellement (French: sexually transmitted diseases) |
| MDS | Message Design System |
| MDS | Mottahedeh Development Services (Maryland) |
| MDS | Modular Data Systems |
| MDS | Meteoroid Detection Satellite |
| MDS | Mountain Data Systems, LLC (Estes Park, CO, USA) |
| MDS | Misce, Da, Signa (Latin abbreviation on drug prescription) |
| MDS | Mail Distribution Scheme |
| MDS | Mohawk Data Science (Herkimer, New York) |
| MDS | Multilayer Datacenter Switches |
| MDS | Maintenance and Diagnostic Subsystem |
| MDS | Military Damage Assessment |
| MDS | MX Distribution Shelf |
| MDS | Magnetic Drum Storage |
| MDS | Monitor Divert System |
| MDS | Module Docking Station |
| MDS | Media Duplication Services |
| MDS | Management Dial System (Vadic) |
| MDS | Map Display Server |
| MDS | Manna Distribution Services |
| MDS | Mad Druids Society |
| MDS | Master Demarcation System |
| MDS | Modular Deck Structure |
| MDS | Modular Drawer Stowage |
| MDS | Master Drawing Schedule |
| MDS | Market Decision System |
| MDS | Message Distributing System |
| MDS | Measurement Debriefing System |
| MDS | Matrix Deployment Support |
| MDS | Managed Delivery Systems |
| MDS | Megchan's Digimon Sekai (website) |
| MDS | Modern Design Solutions |
| MDS | Microwave Design Simulator |
| MDS | Atelier de Minéralisation des Solvants Organiques (French: Organic Solvent Mineralisation Facility) |
| MDS | Media Delivery Solution (software) |
| MDS | Management Development Specialists, Inc (Ocean Springs, MS) |
| MDS | Multi-Displacement System (Chrysler engine technology) |
| MDS | Mobile Data System (Blackberry service) |
| MDS | Missile Defense System |
| MDS | Missile Detection System |
| MDS | Multipoint Distribution System |
| MDS | Modern Day Spartans (gaming) |
| MDS | Mandriva Directory Server (software) |
| MDS | Macular Disease Society (UK) |
| MDS | Music Desk Stand (product) |