MFS
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MFS may refer to:
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- Ministry for State SecurityStasiThe Ministry for State Security The Ministry for State Security The Ministry for State Security (German: Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (MfS), commonly known as the Stasi (abbreviation , literally State Security), was the official state security service of East Germany. The MfS was headquartered...
(Ministerium für Staatssicherheit), the security and intelligence organisation of the German Democratic Republic, commonly known as Stasi - Metropolitan Fire ServiceMetropolitan Fire ServiceThe South Australian Metropolitan Fire Service is South Australia's government-funded fire service.The South Australian Fire Brigade was formed in 1882, following passing of the Fire Brigades Act.In 1981 the service was renamed to SAMFS when it became government funded.The MFS has 35 fire stations...
, South Australia's government-funded fire service - Master of Forest Science, a specialized professional degree
- Master of Forensic Sciences, a specialized professional degree
- Meeting for SufferingsMeeting for SufferingsMeeting for Sufferings is an executive committee of Britain Yearly Meeting, the body which acts on behalf of members of the Religious Society of Friends in Great Britain and the Crown Dependencies...
, a consultative body in Britain Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) - Miletich Fighting SystemsMiletich Fighting SystemsMiletich Fighting Systems is a mixed martial arts training organization. It is recognized as an excellent training camp. It has been the training camp for fighters such as Matt Hughes, Tim Sylvia, Jens Pulver, Robbie Lawler, and Jeremy Horn...
, a mixed martial arts training camp founded by Pat Miletich - Maryknoll fathers' schoolMaryknoll Fathers' SchoolMaryknoll Fathers' School is a government-funded school with both primary school and secondary school sections, located in Tai Hang Tung District in New Kowloon, Hong Kong.The medium of instruction is English for the secondary school section.-History:...
, a government-funded co-ed in Hong Kong SAR, P.R.C. - Moorestown Friends SchoolMoorestown Friends SchoolMoorestown Friends School is a private Quaker school located at East Main Street and Chester Avenue in Moorestown, New Jersey. As of the 2009-10 school year, the school had an enrollment of 668 students and 81.0 classroom teachers , for a student–teacher ratio of 8.2...
, a private Quaker school located in Moorestown, New Jersey, USA - Metropolitan Fiber SystemsMetropolitan Fiber SystemsMetropolitan Fiber Systems Inc, later known as MFS Communications Company, was a last mile provider of business grade telecommunication products such as long distance, and Internet access through its own fiber rings in major central business districts throughout North America and Europe...
, a telecommunications service provider acquired by WorldCom in 1997 - Maximum flooding surface, a term used in sequence stratigraphySequence stratigraphySequence stratigraphy is a branch of geology that attempts to subdivide and link sedimentary deposits into unconformity bound units on a variety of scales and explain these stratigraphic units in terms of variations in sediment supply and variations in the rate of change in accommodation space...
- MFS Investment ManagementMFS Investment ManagementMFS Investment Management is an American-based global asset manager, formerly known as Massachusetts Financial Services. It is owned by Sun Life Financial of Canada, with subsidiary headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts and offices worldwide. MFS was founded in 1924 and is one of the oldest asset...
formerly Massachusetts Financial Services. - MFS LimitedMFS LimitedOctaviar Limited is an Australian diversified investment company in the funds management and financial services sectors. The company, once valued at $2.4 billion was forced to sell its main asset, the Stella Group, in February 2008 and in March 2008 the value of the company had fallen to just $480...
- the former name of Gold CoastGold Coast, QueenslandGold Coast is a coastal city of Australia located in South East Queensland, 94km south of the state capital Brisbane. With a population approximately 540,000 in 2010, it is the second most populous city in the state, the sixth most populous city in the country, and also the most populous...
property group Octaviar. - Miller Fisher syndrome - a rare nerve disease, a variant of Guillain-Barré syndromeGuillain-Barré syndromeGuillain–Barré syndrome , sometimes called Landry's paralysis, is an acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy , a disorder affecting the peripheral nervous system. Ascending paralysis, weakness beginning in the feet and hands and migrating towards the trunk, is the most typical symptom...
- The Missouri Folklore SocietyThe Missouri Folklore SocietyThe Missouri Folklore Society was organized December 15, 1906, "to encourage the collection, preservation and study of folklore in the widest sense, including customs, institutions, beliefs, signs, legends, language, literature, musical arts, and folk arts and crafts of all ethnic groups throughout...
- Major Facilitator SuperfamilyMajor facilitator familyThe Major Facilitator Superfamily transporters are secondary carriers transporting small solutes in response to chemiosmotic ion gradients.-Human proteins containing this domain :*FLVCR; FLVCR1; FLVCR2; *HIAT1; HIATL1; HMFN2567;...
, a family of related proteins involved in active transport of solutes across a membrane. - MFS 2000 IncMFS 2000 IncMFS 2000 Inc. is a Hungarian ammunition manufacturer located in Sirok. It was established in 1952 as Mátravidéki Fémművek and began to produce ammunition for the civilian market in the late 1950's. Initial military production declined during the 1960's and 1970's in favour of civilian production....
- a Hungarian Ammunition Manufacturer located in Sirok
In computing:
- Macintosh File SystemMacintosh File SystemMacintosh File System is a volume format created by Apple Computer for storing files on 400K floppy disks. MFS was introduced with the Macintosh 128K in January 1984....
, a disk file system created by Apple Computer for storing files on 400K floppy disks - MINIX file systemMINIX file system-History:MINIX was written from scratch by Andrew S. Tanenbaum in the 1980s, as a Unix-like operating system whose source code could be used freely in education...
, the native file system of the Minix operating system - Memory File System, a file system created in RAM (a type of ramdisk)
- Media FileSystemTivo's Media File SystemThe MFS or Media File System is a proprietary file system used on Tivo hard drives for fault tolerant real-time recording of live TV.Although MFS is still not particularly well understood by programmers unaffiliated with the Tivo corporation, enough is known about the file system to be able to do...
, the filesystem used by TiVo - Microsoft Flight SimulatorMicrosoft Flight SimulatorMicrosoft Flight Simulator is a series of flight simulator programs for the Microsoft Windows operating system, although it was marketed as a video game. It is one of the longest-running, best-known and most comprehensive home flight simulator series...
Other:
- MFSMFS (label)MFS was an independent electronic dance music label from Berlin, Germany lasting from 1990-2008 . It was founded by Berlin based Englishman, Mark Reeder in 1990...
, a former German based trance label.