When designers are talking about a PMS color, they are speaking about the Pantone Matching System. It’s quite a ubiquitous term in the industry to say, “oh i wanted a PMS 186 on that job.” But click here to check out all the other acronyms for PMS.
Pantone Matching System
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PAC II Project Management System Pacific Masters Swimming Pack My Suitcase Package Management System (computer software) Pacoima Middle School Paint Mixing System(s) Palms Middle School Pamper Me Softly, Inc. Pantone Matching System (color matching for publishing) Pardon My Stupidity Parked Motorcycle Syndrome (winter blues) Parras Middle School Particle Measurement System Pass My Shotgun Passe Musikalske Studiner Passport Management System Patient Monitoring System Pavement Management System Payson Middle School Pedestal Mounted Stinger Penfield Middle School Pennbrook Middle School Penndale Middle School Pennichuck Middle School People’s Medical Society Pepperoni Mushroom & Sausage Percent of Market Share Performance Management System Performance Measurement System Performance Monitoring System Permanent Measurement System Permitted Maximum Signal (ITU-T) Personal Mailing System Personnel Management Specialist Phantom Menace Syndrome (Star Wars) Phase Measurement System Phased-Mission System Philips Medical Systems Phoenix Missile System Physical Media Section Picturephone Meeting Service (AT&T) Piedmont Middle School (California) Pike and Musket Society (English civil wars living history group; Australia) Pines Montessori School (Kingwood, TX, USA) Pipeline Management System Plainfield Middle School Planned Maintenance Schedule/Systems Planned Maintenance System/Subsystem Pollicita Middle School (Daly City, CA) Pony Motor Starting Poor Motivational Syndrome (band) Portable Monitoring Set Portable Monitoring System Post Meal Sleepies 🙂 Post-Marketing Surveillance (monitors ongoing safety of marketed drugs) Post-Millennium Stress Potential Murder Suspect (law enforcement) Power Management System Power Modulation Symposium Power Money Sex Practically My Sister
Practice Management System Pre Main Sequence (astronomy) Precious Metals Sector Precise Mousing Surface (3M mousepad) Pre-Marital Sex Pre-Millennium Stress Presidential Management Staff (Philippines) Pressure Modulation System Pretty Mean Sisters (WWF wrestling) Preventive Maintenance System Principal Marine Surveyor Probability of Mission Success Problem Management System Processor Memory Switch Procurement/Personnel Management System Production and Marketing Systems Production Management Specialist Productive Members of Society (recovery oriented) Professional Military Studies Professor of Military Science Profiler Meteorological System Program Management Specialist Program Management Squadron Program Management Support Program Management System Program Manager Surface Program Master Schedule Program/Project Manager, Sea (NAVSEA) Programme Maghr bo-Sah lien Project Management Specialist Project Management System Project Manager Ships Project Master Schedule Project/Program Manager, Ship (Naval Sea Systems Command) Property Management System Prospect Management System Proud Marin Sisters Provisioning Monitoring System Public Message Service Public Message System Pueblo Middle School Pulse, Motor, Sensation
Some highlights from the list: Pardon My Stupidity Picturephone Meeting Service (AT&T) Post-Millennium Stress What in the world was AT&T thinking when they named it that?
My personal favorite: Pass My Shotgun
Did you purposely exclude the most common: Pre Menstrual Syndrome? -D
Perhaps we should write to acronymfinder.com and ask why Pre Menstrual Syndrome is omitted from their database.
*LOL*
all this because of a strange email address.