EMS

abbreviation

1. emergency medical service.

2. Digital Technology.,  enhanced message service: a system for sending long or formatted text messages, images, music, etc., from one cell phone to another.

3. European Monetary System.

4. express mail service: an international service offered by the postal operators of the Universal Postal Union (UPU).

EMS

¹

abbreviation

1. European Monetary System

2. enhanced messaging service: a system used for sending text messages containing special text formatting, animations, etc, to and from mobile phones

Ems

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/ ɛmz /

noun

1. a town in W Germany, in the Rhineland-Palatinate: famous for the Ems Telegram (1870), Bismarck's dispatch that led to the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War. Pop: 9666 (2003 est)

2. a river in W Germany, rising in the Teutoburger Wald and flowing generally north to the North Sea. Length: about 370 km (230 miles)

Example Sentences

It names Frontken and Northeast as top picks, and prefers Aurelius Technologies within the EMS space.

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About a year earlier, the EMS service in Kirkpatrick’s North Carolina county had begun a blood-transfusion program, administering blood to the most critical patients before they arrived at a hospital.

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The proportion of EMS agencies that offer these programs remains tiny, but the number has increased dramatically in the past several years.

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One recent review of EMS data suggests that if prehospital blood were universally available, more than 20,000 lives would have been saved over the four-year study period.

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A BlackFly painted in EMS livery waited for me in the silvery grass.

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