HMS
English
Alternative forms
- (ships, service): H.M.S., H. M. S.
- (time): hms, h:m:s, H:M:S, Hms, H:m:s
Noun
HMS
- (military, nautical) Initialism of His/Her Majesty's Ship. (a ship prefix used for a ship commissioned into the navy of a kingdom)
- Coordinate terms: USS, FS, IJN, RFS, ROKS, ROCS
- (UK, nautical, military) Initialism of Her (or His) Majesty's Ship; ship prefix of the Royal Navy of the UK
- Synonym: HBMS
- Hyponyms: HMAS, HMAV, HMV, HMAT, HMT, RFA
- Coordinate terms: RMS, RMMV
- (UK, historical) Initialism of His/Her Majesty's Schooner.
- Synonym: HBMS
- Hyponyms: HMAS, HBMAS
- (UK, historical) Initialism of His/Her Majesty's Sloop.
- Synonym: HBMS
- Hyponyms: HMAS, HBMAS
- (British Empire, historical) Synonym of HMCS (“His/Her Majesty's Colonial Ship”) A ship prefix for a ship of a power within the British Empire
- Synonym: HBMCS
- (informal, obsolete) Synonym of HMAS (Australia)
- Synonym: HBMAS
- (informal, obsolete) Synonym of HMCS (Canada)
- Synonym: HBMCS
- (informal, obsolete) Synonym of HMIS (India)
- Synonym: HBMIS
- (informal, obsolete) Synonym of HMNZS (New Zealand)
- Synonym: HBMNZS
- (informal, obsolete) Synonym of HMSAS (South Africa)
- Synonym: HBMSAS
- Synonym of HDMS (ship of Denmark's Royal Navy)
- Synonym of HNoMS (ship of Norway's Royal Navy)
- Synonym of HNLMS (ship of Holland's Royal Navy)
- Synonym of HSwMS (ship of Sweden's Royal Navy)
- Synonym of HTMS (ship of Thailand's Royal Navy)
- Synonym of HIMS (“His Imperial Majesty's Ship”)
- Synonym of HICMS (ship of the Empire of China's navy) (Ching/Qing Dynasty)
- Synonym of HIFMS (ship of the French Second Empire's navy)
- SMS: Synonym of HIGMS (ship of the German Second Reich's navy)
- IJN: Synonym of HIJMS (ship of Imperial Japan's navy)
- Synonym of HIRMS (ship of Czarist Russia's navy)
- Initialism of Her (or His) Majesty's Service.
- Initialism of hour-minute-second. (a method of writing angles).
- Initialism of hour-minute-second. (a method of writing times).
Synonyms
- (time): H:M:S
Coordinate terms
- (angles): DMS, DD, radian, gradian, mil
- (times): DHM/D:H:M, DHMS/D:H:M:S, HM/H:M
Related terms
(nautical):
- HMCS
- HMAS
- HMNZS
- HMTSS
- HBMS
- HDMS
- HNMS
- HNoMS
- HNLMS
- HSwMS
(Her (or His) Majesty's Service):
- OHMS
(angles):
- DMS
Anagrams
- HSM, MHS, SHM, SMH, shm-, smh
Danish
Noun
HMS
- Abbreviation of hans/hendes majestæts skib (“his/her majesty's ship”). (ship prefix for the Danish navy)
- Coordinate term: KDM
Swedish
Noun
HMS
- (nautical, military) Hans Majestäts Skepp / Hennes Majestäts Skepp — HSwMS – His/Her Majesty's Ship (ship prefix of the Swedish Navy (Marinen))
See also
Swedish Navy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia