ms
millisecond; milliseconds.
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Ms.abbreviationa title of respect prefixed to a woman's name or position: unlike Miss or Mrs., it does not depend upon or indicate her marital status.
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m/s
m/smeter per second; meters per second.
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M/Smonths after sight.
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m.s.abbreviationmodification of the stem of.
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M.S.abbreviationmail steamer.
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a title of respect prefixed to a woman's name or position: unlike Miss or Mrs., it does not depend upon or indicate her marital status.
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a title prefixed to a mock surname that is used to represent possession of a particular attribute, identity, etc., especially in an idealized or excessive way.
Ms. Cooperation.
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Commerce. months after sight.
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mail steamer.
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Master of Science.
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motorship.
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Master of Surgery
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(on gravestones) memoriae sacrum
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Mauritius (international car registration)
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Pronunciation
Ms. is pronounced (miz), a pronunciation that is identical with one standard South Midland and Southern U.S. pronunciation of Mrs.
Gender
Ms. came into use in the 1950s as a title before a woman's surname when her marital status was unknown or irrelevant. In the early 1970s, the use of Ms. was adopted and encouraged by the women's movement, the reasoning being that since a man's marital status is not revealed by the title Mr., there is no reason that a woman's status should be revealed by her title. Since then Ms. has gained increasing currency, especially in business and professional use. Some women prefer the traditional Miss (still fully standard for a woman whose marital status is unknown and for an unmarried woman) or, when appropriate, Mrs. Newspaper editors sometimes reject Ms. except in quoted matter. Others use whichever of the three titles a woman prefers if her preference is known. Increasingly, newspapers avoid the use of all three titles by referring to women by their full names in first references ( Sarah Brady; Margaret Bourke-White ) and by surname only, as with men, in subsequent references: Brady, Bourke-White. Since all three titles— Ms., Miss, and Mrs. —remain in use, the preference of the woman being named or addressed or the practice of the organization or publication in which the name is to appear is often followed.
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Feminists have urged the use of Ms. because, unlike Miss or Mrs., it does not identify a woman by her marital status. (See feminism.)
Etymology
Origin of MS
(sense 2) Latin: sacred to the memory of
Example Sentences
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In Australia, Surfshark’s ping times ranged from 229 to 281 ms, while NordVPN’s latency was slightly lower, averaging 210 to 260 ms.
From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2026
Upload speeds were generally stable, though ping times increased significantly on distant servers — reaching over 500 ms in Australia — which could introduce noticeable lag during gaming or video calls.
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2026
When small creatures touch the fine trigger hairs on the outside of the door, it opens inwards within 0.5 ms.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 20, 2024
A relatively long-lived excited state of an atom has a lifetime of 3.00 ms.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
One evening we went to move an attractive young woman who found it charming to spell the name Kim with an h, a y, and two ms.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
MS doubles its target price on the stock to 25.00 Australian dollars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
But like all cable networks, MS NOW has to manage the loss of pay-TV customers, which provide a major source of revenue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
But Janet Finch-Saunders, Welsh Conservative MS for Bangor Conwy Môn, said the Senedd should focus first on fixing the healthcare system in Wales.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
With an unchanged underweight rating on the stock, MS analysts point to the uncertain operating environment and the lender’s weak earnings outlook.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Cushing’s syndrome was the official diagnosis, possibly related to his MS and possibly not.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
“Dear ms. norris,” wrote a fifth-grade girl in a recent letter.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 12, 2022
Eat your heart out, ms. lonely hearts. — jeffp26 13.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2010
The Sancroft ms. writes the two poems as one.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) by Richard Crashaw
In the Sancroft ms. line 8 reads 'As sitts alone ....'
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) by Richard Crashaw
The heading in the Sancroft ms. is 'A Panegyrick vpon the birth of the Duke of Yorke.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) by Richard Crashaw
Ms. Dixon often seesaws between a work’s attractions and its repulsions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
As an example of small resistance, Ms. Southon describes a single roof tile found at a religious sanctuary in Molise, Italy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Ms. Dixon tries to suggest that certain kinds of ethical judgments are universal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Joining Lenglen in the first is Coco Gauff, whose 2025 Wimbledon kit featured a pleated skirt and a corset-shaped top made of performance material—“the perfect harmony of heritage and modernity,” Ms. Kumar Nair writes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Ms. Martinez passes out the exams, and as soon as she tells us to begin, I attack each problem, one after the other.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
"Our shared goal was always to take a promising idea and develop it into a therapy that could help people with MS. We're finally getting close to that reality."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2025
“It’s a big deal for people with MS. And it could change a lot for people who have MS. I’m a little lady with a big mission.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2023
“This will be my first time out since diagnosed with MS. Walking sticks are now part of my new normal,” she said, sharing a photo of several canes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2022
Epidemiologist Alberto Ascherio, senior author of the new study, says, “The bottom line is almost: if you’re not infected with EBV, you don’t get MS. It’s rare to get such black-and-white results.”
From Scientific American ● Jan. 13, 2022
A perfectionist, he added a note with the sketch: “This MS. work was never intended for publication, and therefore was not written with care.—C.D. 1858.”
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
An international research team led by scientists from the CNRS1 has discovered that the magnetic nanobubbles2 known as skyrmions can be moved by electrical currents, attaining record speeds up to 900 m/s.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 18, 2024
Until now, these nanobubbles moved no faster than 100 m/s, which is too slow for computing applications.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 18, 2024
Judging by the programmes it seems that the dragon’s body-length of about 13m passes by in about three seconds, which puts the stalling speed at about 4.3 m/s or 14 ft/s.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 2, 2022
Show that, when SI units for µ 0 and ε0 are entered, the units given by the right-hand side of the equation in the problem above are m/s.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
The speed of light in vacuum c = 2.9972458×108 m/s ≈ 3.00×108 m/s.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
"There is a strong public interest in maintaining the grave peace around M/S Estonia, which is the burial ground for a large number of people," the Gothenburg district court said in a statement.
From Reuters ● Sep. 5, 2022
The M/S Victoria will be docked in Leith to provide an additional 739 rooms where people can be temporarily accommodated.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2022
I visited the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard in 2017, having ended up on the M/S Stockholm, a classic ship built in 1953 and refitted in 1998, through sheer luck.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2021
A separate, privately funded expedition commissioned by relatives of the victims of the M/S Estonia conducted a dive in September.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 16, 2021
The M/S Estonia ferry, which was traveling from the Estonian capital Tallinn to Stockholm in Sweden, sank in heavy seas on Sept. 28, 1994, killing 852 people, most of them Swedes and Estonians.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2021
The Sancroft m.s. reads line 4 'Blithest:' line 9 'numerous:' line 12 'A:' line 17 'our.'
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) by Richard Crashaw
"It took 10 people over a week just to find this one tiny 10-millimeter adult," said Luisa "Fernanda" Vasquez-Valverde M.S.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 14, 2026
“I think this trend is the meeting point of a couple different trends that were existing already, one being gut health,” explains Cara Harbstreet, M.S.,
From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2026
“Overcleaning can remove patina, soften detail and reduce value — particularly for antique pieces. When in doubt, leave it as is,” said Emily Otranto, lead researcher with M.S.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 31, 2025
Such collaboration has been done before—think Harvey Slocum, who shaped the Bhakra Nangal Dam alongside Indian engineers, and Norman Borlaug, whose high-yielding wheat with M.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025
McKinley, M.S., on Garcia and the laryngoscope, 2.
From Resonance in Singing and Speaking by Thomas Fillebrown
Ms Mullan told the court that she tried to wave to people on the road and that 20 to 25 cars went by in both directions before the alarm was raised by a passing family.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
"In 2023 alone, 45 unreleased songs belonging to Ms Grande were hacked, stolen, and leaked," the documents said.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
"It is obvious that Ms Ghost, a 49 year old woman, should have appreciated the inappropriateness of her conduct regardless of whether there was any sexual motivation or conduct," the judgement read.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
"This was a traumatic and horrific event for Ms Lees, and for Peter's family, who have now gone such a long time without the answers they deserve," Dole said.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
But as soon as he stooped Ms Ups toward it, the water sank away.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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