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).

em

[em]

noun, plural ems.

the letter M, m.
Also called mut, mutton. Printing.
1. the square of any size of type used as the unit of measurement for matter printed in that type size.
2. (originally) the portion of a line of type occupied by the letter M in type of the same size.
em pica.

adjective

Printing. having the area of an em quad or the length of an em dash.

Origin of em

First recorded in 1860–65

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Related Words for ems

transport, rescue, EMS

Examples from the Web for ems

Contemporary Examples of ems

EMS officers were called to the scene and pronounced her dead upon arrival.
Celebrity Stylist Annabel Tollman Dead at Thirty-Nine
Misty White Sidell
June 7, 2013
And even EMS dispatch vets, generally reluctant to second-guess the work of one of their own, have piled on.
Amanda Berry’s 911 Dispatcher Under Fire for Blasé Response
David Freedlander
May 7, 2013
I told the EMS, nurses, and doctor that it was an attempted rape.
In Washington, Sexual Assault Victims Find Justice Elusive
February 22, 2013

Historical Examples of ems

At Ems I shall not be a conjuror: but I never part with my box.
Vivian Grey
Earl of Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli
In summer, all the world—of Leipsic—goes out of town, to Baden or Ems.
Funny Big Socks
Sarah L. Barrow
I foresee a snub for our ambassador at Ems, but that is all.
Lorraine
Robert W. Chambers
The Ems, on the other hand, only serves towns of the second class.
The Riddle of the Sands
Erskine Childers
Yes, that must be it, for the Ems sailed yesterday from Southampton.
A Cathedral Courtship
Kate Douglas Wiggin

British Dictionary definitions for ems

Ems

Bad Ems

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)

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

em

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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ems in Medicine

EMS

abbr.

electrical muscle stimulation
Emergency Medical Service

EM

abbr.

electron microscope

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