MMS

See also: mms, MMs, and M&M's

English

Proper noun

MMS

1. (telecommunications) Initialism of Multimedia Messaging Service.

   Coordinate term: SMS

   • 2003, Scott B. Guthery, Mary J. Cronin, Developing MMS Applications:

     Sending a picture taken with a phonecam as MMS may be fun on occasion, but sending thousands or millions of pictures is not the work of a casual user.

   • 2024 August 30, Samuel Gibbs, “From dumb phones to hand-me-downs: the ultimate guide to buying phones for kids”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎^[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 August 2024:

     So if the handset is only for calls and texts for arranging pickups and emergency phone calls, then a basic “dumb” phone could be the answer. […] The downside is that many dumb phones still have limited internet access, and only a handful have basic parental controls for locking down the camera, the browser and picture messaging (MMS).

2. (seismology) Initialism of moment magnitude scale.

Noun

MMS (plural MMSes)

1. A message sent using Multimedia Messaging Service.

   Coordinate term: SMS

Anagrams

• MSM, SMM

Polish

Alternative forms

• mms

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from English MMS.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛm.ɛmˈɛs/
• Rhymes: -ɛs
• Syllabification: M‧M‧S

Noun

MMS m animal or m inan (related adjective MMS-owy)

1. (countable) MMS, PXT, picture message, multimedia message (message sent using Multimedia Messaging Service)

   Synonym: ememes

2. (uncountable, telecommunications) Multimedia Messaging Service (standard way to send messages that include multimedia content to and from a mobile phone over a cellular network)

Declension

Declension of MMS

	singular	plural
nominative	MMS	MMS-y
genitive	MMS-a, MMS-u	MMS-ów
dative	MMS-owi	MMS-om
accusative	MMS-a, MMS	MMS-y
instrumental	MMS-em	MMS-ami
locative	MMS-ie	MMS-ach
vocative	MMS-ie	MMS-y

Derived terms

verbs

• MMS-ować impf

Further reading

• “MMS”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)