Usually means: Hours, minutes, seconds: time measurement units.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. HMS: Merriam-Webster
  2. HMS: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. HMS: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. H.M.S, H.M.S: Collins English Dictionary
  5. HMS, HM's, HMs, Hms, hms, hMs: Wordnik
  6. HMS, hms: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. HMS, HMs: Wiktionary
  8. HMS: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. HMS: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. H.M.S: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. HMS, h.m.s: Dictionary.com
  12. HMS, Hms: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. HMS: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  14. H.M.S: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  15. H.M.S, HMS: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. hms: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  17. HMS: Merriam-Webster

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Abbreviations in shipping (No longer online)

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. HMS, HMS, HMS: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  2. HMS: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. HMS: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. H.M.S: Latitude Mexico

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (mathematics) Initialism of hour-minute-second.:
noun:  A format for writing decimal angles.
noun:  A 24 or 12-hour time format that includes seconds, in addition to hours and minutes.
noun:  A format for writing decimal time, usually associated with base-10 time such as during the French Revolution.
noun:  (military, nautical) Initialism of His/Her Majesty's Ship (prefix for ships in the navy of a monarchy, such as the British Royal Navy).
noun:  (postage) Initialism of His/Her Majesty's Service.
noun:  Initialism of hypermobility syndrome.

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