 10 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
Ms.
noun: a form of address for a woman that does not depend on her
marital status
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
MS
noun
1: a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of
myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers [syn: {multiple
sclerosis}, {disseminated sclerosis}, {disseminated
multiple sclerosis}]
2: a state in the Deep South on the gulf of Mexico; one of the
Confederate States during the American Civil War [syn: {Mississippi},
{Magnolia State}]
3: a master's degree in science [syn: {Master of Science}, {SM},
{MSc}]
4: the form of a literary work submitted for publication [syn:
{manuscript}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sclerosis \Scle*ro"sis\, noun [NL., fr. Gr. (??, fr. sklhro's
hard.]
1. (Med.) Induration; hardening; especially, that form of
induration produced in an organ by increase of its
interstitial connective tissue.
2. (Bot.) Hardening of the cell wall by lignification.
{Cerebro-spinal sclerosis} (Med.), an affection in which
patches of hardening, produced by increase of the
neuroglia and atrophy of the true nerve tissue, are found
scattered throughout the brain and spinal cord. It is
associated with complete or partial paralysis, a peculiar
jerking tremor of the muscles, headache, and vertigo, and
is usually fatal. Formerly referred to as {multiple
sclerosis}, {disseminated sclerosis}, or {insular
sclerosis}, but now usually called only {multiple
sclerosis}, or {MS}.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
86 Moby Thesaurus words for "MS":
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, article, autograph, brain disease,
brainchild, cephalalgia, cerebral palsy, chorea, composition,
computer printout, copy, document, draft, edited version,
emotional disorder, engrossment, epilepsy, essay, fair copy,
falling sickness, fiction, final draft, finished version,
first draft, flimsy, glossopharyngeal neuralgia, headache,
herpes zoster, holograph, ischialgia, letter, literae scriptae,
literary artefact, literary production, literature, lucubration,
manuscript, matter, migraine, multiple sclerosis, nervous disorder,
neuralgia, neuritis, neuropathy, nonfiction, opus,
organic psychosis, original, palsy, paper, parchment, penscript,
piece, piece of writing, play, poem, polyneuritis,
pressure neuropathy, priapism, printed matter, printout,
production, radiculitis, reading matter, recension,
sciatic neuritis, sciatica, screed, scrip, script, scrive, scroll,
second draft, shaking palsy, shingles, spastic paralysis,
the jerks, the written word, tic douloureux, toxic psychosis,
transcript, transcription, typescript, version, work, writing
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
ms
The {country code} for Montserrat.
(1999-01-27)
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
MS
Mobile Station (GSM, mobile-systems)
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
MS
Message Store
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
MS
Memory Stick
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
MS
Meta Signaling (ATM, ???)
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
MS
MicroSoft (manufacturer, MS)
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