EMS
emergency medical service.
Digital Technology. enhanced message service: a system for sending long or formatted text messages, images, music, etc., from one cell phone to another.Compare SMS(def 1a).
European Monetary System.
express mail service: an international service offered by the postal operators of the Universal Postal Union (UPU).
Definition for ems (2 of 2)
em
[ em ]
/ ɛm /
noun, plural ems.
adjective
Origin of em
First recorded in 1860–65
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British Dictionary definitions for ems (1 of 3)
Ems
Bad Ems
/ (ɛmz) /
noun
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)
a river in W Germany, rising in the Teutoburger Wald and flowing generally north to the North Sea. Length: about 370 km (230 miles)
British Dictionary definitions for ems (2 of 3)
EMS
abbreviation for
European Monetary System
enhanced messaging service: a system used for sending text messages containing special text formatting, animations, etc, to and from mobile phones
British Dictionary definitions for ems (3 of 3)
em
/ (ɛm) /
noun printing
Also called: mutton, mut the square of a body of any size of type, used as a unit of measurement
Also called: pica em, pica a unit of measurement used in printing, equal to one sixth of an inch
Word Origin for em
C19: from the name of the letter M
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Medicine definitions for ems (1 of 2)
EMS
abbr.
electrical muscle stimulation
Emergency Medical Service
Medicine definitions for ems (2 of 2)
EM
abbr.
electron microscope
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