EMS

See also: ems, Ems, and EMs

English

Noun

EMS

1. (business) electronics manufacturing service: a type of OEM (original equipment manufacturer) service.
2. (US, medicine) emergency medical service: an organization, often part of a local government whose purpose is to provide emergency medical care to the public.
   • 2014, Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven, Picador (2022), page 10:

     “Training to be a paramedic.”
     “EMS? For real? You want to scrape drunks off the sidewalk for a living?”
     “I want to do something that matters, if that’s what you mean.”

3. (business) express mail service: a type of international express mail services.
4. (historical, computing) Expanded Memory Specification
5. environmental management system
6. Initialism of eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome.

Related terms

• (computing): XMS, EMM, XMM

See also

• (computing): UMA, UMB, HMA

Anagrams

• MES, MEs, MSE, SEM, SME, Sem, mes, mes-, sem

French

Noun

EMS m (plural EMSs)

1. Initialism of établissement médico-social.