(1) Short for Methods for Testing and Specification.
(2) Short for Microsoft Transaction Server, a
feature of the Microsoft Windows NT Server operating system that allows the
development and deployment of server-centric applications built using Microsoft
Component Object Model (COM) technologies.
(3) Short for Measured Telephone Service, a
telecommunication service based on metered usage such as toll-based calling.
(4) Short for Multichannel Television Sound,
the method of broadcasting stereo sound over ordinary analog TV channels. MTS
reception capability is built into virtually all stereo TVs and HiFi VCRs.
(5) Abbreviation for Multithreaded Server, an Oracle server
configuration that uses less memory. A dispatcher process enables many user
processes to share a few server processes. While running in MTS mode, a user can
still request a dedicated server process.
