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.
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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motor ship
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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 281 to 422 ms, while NordVPN’s latency was lower — between 292 and 406 ms — based on test data.
From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2026
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
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
When the 20.0 A current through an inductor is turned off in 1.50 ms, an 800 V emf is induced, opposing the change.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
The first part, commit, has two ms but just one t.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
MS NOW reported that its White House reporter Laura Barrón-López and a producer were barred and had their passes taken, but another MS NOW producer was allowed in.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
The White House is restoring access to reporters from CNN, MS NOW and Politico after a federal judge lifted a ban imposed by President Trump.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
I raised questions about how they could do that in a Sept. 2 op-ed for MS NOW.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026
Eventually, MS can cause permanent damage to the nerve fibers, and symptoms vary from person to person, depending on the location and severity of the damage in the nervous system.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
When he learned he had MS, my dad acted like it was no big deal, even though he had to quit his job, which was building houses.
From "Crenshaw" by Katherine Applegate
“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 ms. in line 10 reads 'chatting:' line 16, I have corrected the usual reading of 'bosome' by 'blosome,' from the Sancroft ms.
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
Hitherto it has run, 'And teach her faire steps to our Earth:' the ms. as given by us 'tread' for 'to:' ib. st.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) by Richard Crashaw
The lawyer said medics were "working to save Ms. Pike's life" after she arrived with both arms "swollen, burned, and blistered."
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
As Ms. Basinger writes, “according to the woman’s film, the woman’s life is almost always a life of deception.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
As of Thursday evening, "Ms. Pike remains critically ill and is being treated at a Nashville-area hospital," lawyer Luke Ihnen wrote.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
As Ms. Perry writes, “what was funny existed alongside what was intolerably sad, and the process of dying struck us as both quite ordinary, really almost a household task, but also incomprehensibly strange.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Ms. Emerson gestures to a chair facing her desk.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
"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
For instance, a clock traveling at 10 m/s for 57 million years would fall behind a stationary clock by about one second.
From Science Daily ● May 18, 2026
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
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
The speed of light in vacuum c = 2.9972458×108 m/s ≈ 3.00×108 m/s.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
Most electrical signals carried by currents travel at speeds on the order of 108 m/s , a significant fraction of the speed of light.
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
In one of Europe’s deadliest peacetime maritime disasters, the M/S Estonia sank in heavy seas on Sept. 28, 1994, killing 852 people, most of them Swedes and Estonians.
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
"We started to notice these warm-water anomalies on either side of marine heatwaves and realized that they're actually embedded within larger periods of warm water," explained lead author Ricardo Utzig Nardi M.S.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
The United Arab Emirates reported there was no local transmission when the patient, known by his initials M.S., was there.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 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
In a few days the news leaked out that "M.S.," as Malcolm Sage was called by the staff, was to start, a private-detective agency.
From Malcolm Sage, Detective by Herbert George Jenkins
"I watched Ms Maharani's videos because I was looking for more information. They gave additional knowledge... so it helped me to think more carefully," she said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
"For the avoidance of doubt, we accept that both Ms Campbell's evidence, as well as her conduct during the operation of the Charity, was entirely honest," they said.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Ms Morgan and van driver Mr Roller, who lived in Athersley, Barnsley, had another daughter, aged 11, who was not with them at the time of the crash.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
"All my friends in the village call me Madame Cholet," Ms Brown said.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
Perhaps it was because he had never known a mother of Ms own, so that the rdle of mother love, as she stood with her children behind her, took him between wind and water.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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