AMS

¹

1. Agricultural Marketing Service.

A.M.S.

²

abbreviation

1. Army Medical Staff.

AMS

abbreviation

1. Additional Member System: a voting system in which some candidates are elected for geographic constituencies and others are elected by proportional representation using party lists. The voter has two votes: one for a party and the other for a candidate in a constituency

Example Sentences

L.C. measured stellar effective temperatures and A.M.S. carried out the Bayesian analysis of distances.

From Nature

“With A.M.S. we are connecting the sky to the ground,” Mr. Hankey, 43, said, referring to the fireball tracker he manages for the American Meteor Society, a nonprofit organization that monitors fireballs and meteor showers, when he’s not running a software development business.

From New York Times

At one stage in the recording, an officer can be heard saying, “I don’t know if he’s A.M.S. or what he is,” using an abbreviation for “altered mental status” to suggest that the man might not have been following orders because he was delirious or psychotic.

From New York Times

They contend, too, that closing the A.M.S. clinic would effectively end abortions after 19 weeks in Wisconsin because no other facility offers them after that point.

From New York Times

They maintain that driving longer distances to obtain an abortion from a provider with admitting privileges is not an undue burden and that providers at the Appleton and A.M.S.

From New York Times