SMS
abbreviation or noun
: a technology for sending short text messages between mobile phones
Although driven by teens and young adults who seemingly aren't satisfied with online instant messaging, SMS can be very useful for sending urgent messages to family members or co-workers.—
Consumer Reports
—often used before another nounConsumer ReportsCreative, colorful, and sometimes perplexing, emoji add energy to SMS messages.—Christina Bonnington
Christina Bonnington
also
: a message sent using this technology : text message
… is helping to test a device that implants sensors in cows to let farmers know when they are in heat. When that is the case, the device sends an SMS to the farmer's phone. —John Tagliabue
John Tagliabue Examples of SMS in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web
Recipients access their delivery through an app or SMS message.
—Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Apr. 2024
The standard version of Beeper used hundreds of Mac mini computers as relay points so that Android messages to iOS devices wouldn’t default to SMS.
—Lauren Goode, WIRED, 9 Apr. 2024
The company is aiming to modernize traditional SMS with more advanced features, including better privacy.
—Robin Chataut, Discover Magazine, 15 Mar. 2024
Apple also pointed out that WhatsApp and Signal don’t support SMS even on Android phones.
—Laura Bratton, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2024
Sign up for Your Vote: Text USA TODAY reporters and the elections team by joining our SMS service.
—USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2024
The reasoning behind this is that iMessage is regarded as a more secure messaging medium than SMS, and for good reason: it was designed to be precisely that.
—Davey Winder, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
For years, the mobile phone industry has been moving from short message service, also known as SMS, to something called RCS, a new messaging standard that Google and other companies have already adopted.
—Bobby Allyn, NPR, 28 Mar. 2024
For instance, in a study of six different AI algorithms that detect SMS spam messages, Sallou and her colleagues found that the random forest algorithm, which combines the output of a collection of decision trees to make a prediction, was the most energy-greedy algorithm.
—IEEE Spectrum, 23 Mar. 2024
Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Apr. 2024
The standard version of Beeper used hundreds of Mac mini computers as relay points so that Android messages to iOS devices wouldn’t default to SMS.
—Lauren Goode, WIRED, 9 Apr. 2024
The company is aiming to modernize traditional SMS with more advanced features, including better privacy.
—Robin Chataut, Discover Magazine, 15 Mar. 2024
Apple also pointed out that WhatsApp and Signal don’t support SMS even on Android phones.
—Laura Bratton, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2024
Sign up for Your Vote: Text USA TODAY reporters and the elections team by joining our SMS service.
—USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2024
The reasoning behind this is that iMessage is regarded as a more secure messaging medium than SMS, and for good reason: it was designed to be precisely that.
—Davey Winder, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
For years, the mobile phone industry has been moving from short message service, also known as SMS, to something called RCS, a new messaging standard that Google and other companies have already adopted.
—Bobby Allyn, NPR, 28 Mar. 2024
For instance, in a study of six different AI algorithms that detect SMS spam messages, Sallou and her colleagues found that the random forest algorithm, which combines the output of a collection of decision trees to make a prediction, was the most energy-greedy algorithm.
—IEEE Spectrum, 23 Mar. 2024
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“SMS.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/SMS. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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