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View synonyms for EMS

EMS

abbreviation for

  1. emergency medical service.
  2. 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 ).
  4. express mail service: an international service offered by the postal operators of the Universal Postal Union (UPU).

EMS

1

abbreviation for

  1. European Monetary System
  2. enhanced messaging service: a system used for sending text messages containing special text formatting, animations, etc, to and from mobile phones

Ems

2

/ ɛmz /

noun

  1. 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)
  2. a river in W Germany, rising in the Teutoburger Wald and flowing generally north to the North Sea. Length: about 370 km (230 miles)

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