DMS explained

DMS may refer to:

Science and technology

Computing

• Document management system
• Digital Media Server, a category within the Digital Living Network Alliance standard
• Disk Masher System, compression software for the Amiga computer
• Unisys DMS, a Unisys OS 2200 database
  • Unisys DMSII
• Digital Microsystems, Inc., an early microcomputer company
• Digital Multiplex System, a telephone exchange system
• Dealership management system, for car dealerships
• DMS Software Reengineering Toolkit, program transformation tools
• DMS-59, a video connector supporting two displays

Chemistry and materials science

• Differential mobility spectrometry in ion-mobility spectrometry–mass spectrometry
• Dilute magnetic semiconductor, semiconductors with magnetic properties
• Dimethyl sulfate, a methylating agent
• Dimethyl sulfide, an organosulfur compound
• N,N-Dimethylsphingosine
• Dimethylstilbestrol, a nonsteroidal estrogen

Other uses in science and technology

• Data management and sharing, an abbreviation used by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in connection with a policy on data management plans updated in 2023 (sharing.nih.gov)
• Dead man's switch
• Degree-Minute-Second, sexagesimal degree divisions
• Diagnostic medical sonography, in ultrasound imaging
• Distribution management system, of electrical energy
• Dynamic message sign, a variable-message traffic sign
• Delusional misidentification syndrome - a class of mental delusions, caused by various neurological diseases.
• Driver Monitoring System - monitors that the driver of a car is awake and alert

Education

• Delft Management Society, a student society of Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
• Post-Graduate Diploma in Management Studies (post-nominal letters D.M.S.)
• Doctor of Medical Science, a professional doctorate for physician assistants (post-nominal letters DMS or DMSc)
• Dartmouth Medical School
• Demonstration Multipurpose School (DMS), Mysore, India

Military

• Decoration for Meritorious Services, South Africa until 1987
• Distinguished Military Service Medal, Papua New Guinea
• Defence Medical Services, UK
• Director Medical Services (UK), Army Medical Services
• DMS Maritime, providing services to the Australian navy
• Defense Message System, in the US Department of Defense
• A US Navy hull classification symbol: High speed/Destroyer minesweeper (DMS)

Other uses

• Design Manufacture Service, an outsourcing business model
• Daimler/Leyland Fleetline London Transport double-decker bus prefix
• Diminishing manufacturing sources
• Directly Moulded Sole - Where the rubber sole of a shoe is melted onto the body

See also

• DM (disambiguation)
• DOMS (disambiguation)