mats

noun

1. (form-of, plural)plural of mat
2. (form-of, plural)plural of Mat

   “There are three Mats in this department.”

3. (form-of, plural)plural of MAT

verb

1. (form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person)third-person singular simple present indicative of mat

name

1. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of Military Air Transport Service, a consolidation of the US Navy's Naval Air Transport Service (NATS) and the United States Air Force Transport Command (ATC) that functioned from June 1 1948 to January 1, 1966.

   “At the controls was Capt. Bill Laughlin, a veteran MATS aircraft commander and his chief pilot in the 41st Air Transport Squadron.”

   “I guess I really learned that a long time ago, when MATS first began teaching me, but I had overlooked it lately.”

   “For the first ten years of its existence MATS operate with three major air transport divisions that physically circled the globe.”