HMS - Wiktionary

See also: HMs and hms

English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:HMSWikipedia

Noun

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HMS

  1. (military, nautical) Initialism of His/Her Majesty's Ship (prefix for ships in the navy of a monarchy, such as the British Royal Navy). Coordinate terms: USS, FS, IJN, RFS, ROKS, ROCS
    • 2018 November 29, Brad Lendon and Zachary Cohen, “Japan preparing to put US-designed stealth jets on an ‘aircraft carrier’”, in CNN‎[1]:One of the other two nations to operate the F-35B, the United Kingdom, has had US versions of the jet operating off its HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier.
  2. (postage) Initialism of His/Her Majesty's Service. Synonym: OHMS
  3. (mathematics) Initialism of hour-minute-second:
    1. A format for writing decimal angles. 36.24° = 36° 14' 24"
    2. A 24 or 12-hour time format that includes seconds, in addition to hours and minutes. 14:37:12 = 14:37 (2:37 pm) and 12 seconds
    3. A format for writing decimal time, usually associated with base-10 time such as during the French Revolution. 7.4138 base-10 decimal hours = 7h 41m 38s
  4. Initialism of hypermobility syndrome.

Synonyms

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  • (angles): DMS

Coordinate terms

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  • (angles): DD, radian, gradian, mil
  • (times): DHM, DHMS
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(nautical):

  • HMCS
  • HMAS
  • HMNZS
  • HMTSS
  • HBMS
  • HDMS
  • HNMS
  • HNoMS
  • HNLMS
  • HSwMS

(postage):

  • OHMBS (On His/Her Majesty's Britannic Service)

Anagrams

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  • MHS, MSH, SMH, smh, SHM, HSM, shm-, MHs

Danish

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Noun

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HMS

  1. abbreviation of hans/hendes majestæts skib (his/her majesty's ship) (ship prefix for the Danish navy) Coordinate term: KDM

Swedish

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Noun

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HMS

  1. (nautical, military) Hans Majestäts Skepp / Hennes Majestäts Skepp — HSwMS – His/Her Majesty's Ship (ship prefix of the Swedish Navy (Marinen))

See also

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  • Swedish Navy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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