IS
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IS may refer to:
Arts and media
Literature
- Book of Isaiah, a biblical text
- Is (novel), a novel by Joan Aiken
- i"s, a manga by Masakazu Katsura
- iS (manga), a manga by Chiyo Rokuhana
- Infinite Stratos, a Japanese light novel series
Other media
- is (album), a 1969 album by jazz pianist Chick Corea
- is, a 2012 album by Canadian pop band Hey Ocean!
- iS – internal section, a video game developed by Square
Businesses and organisations
- Intermediate school, education between primary and secondary schools areas, also known as middle school
- Ilta-Sanomat, a newspaper in Finland
- Intelligent Systems, a first-party video game developer and internal team of Nintendo
- International Socialists (disambiguation), several Trotskyist political organizations
- Investment—Saving, a curve in the IS/LM model of economics
- Island Airlines (IATA code)
Language
- Is, the third-person singular present tense of the English language verb "to be", frequently used as a copula
- Icelandic language (ISO 639-1 alpha-2 code)
- International Sign, a pidgin sign language
- Is (rune) (ᛁ), a rune of the Anglo-Saxon fuþorc
Places
- Island (Is.), any piece of land surrounded by water
- Iceland (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code)
- Israel (NATO country code)
- Hīt, or Is, an Iraqi town on the Euphrates River
- Ys or Is, a mythical city of Brittany
- Iași County, Romania, (vehicle registration code)
- Inverness TMD, a railway traction maintenance depot (depot code)
- Province of Isernia, Italy (vehicle registration code)
Science and mathematics
- Immune system, organic mechanisms that protect against disease
- Immunosuppression
- Importance sampling, a statistical technique for estimating properties of a particular distribution
- Infrasound, sound frequencies below the human range of hearing
- Insertion sequence, a short DNA transposable element
- Intersex, an organism with sex characteristics neither exclusively male nor female
Technology
Computing
- .is, the Internet country-code top-level domain for Iceland
- Information science, the study of data collection, manipulation, and dissemination
- Information systems, organizations of data-processing persons, records, and activities
- InstallShield, a software tool for creating software installers for Microsoft Windows
- IntelliStar, a computer system used to display local forecasts on The Weather Channel
- the relational operator
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, used in Python - the type comparison operator
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, used in C#
Vehicles and weaponry
- IS tank, a Soviet heavy tank in World War II.
- Istrebitel Sputnikov or "Destroyer of Satellites", a Soviet anti-satellite weapons program.
- Lexus IS, a sports car made by Lexus.
- Locomotive IS, a Soviet passenger steam locomotive.
- Nikitin-Shevchenko IS, a Soviet fighter aircraft.
Other uses in technology
- Image stabilization, a family of techniques to reduce blur caused by lens shakes
- Canon Image Stabilizer, a lens-based image stabilization technology by Canon
- Intrinsic safety, a protection technique for electronic equipment in explosive atmospheres
- Indian Standard, developed by the Bureau of Indian Standards, for example IS 456
- International Standard, a mounting standard for the calipers and rotors of disc-type bicycle brake systems
Other uses
- Internal security, the work of keeping domestic peace by a national force
- International studies, or International relations, the study of politics, economics and law on a global level
- Is, in is-ought philosophy, a fact or empirical state with finite limits in space and time
- Old Israeli Shekel, commonly denominated as IS
- Islamic State, an Islamic terrorist organization
See also
- I (disambiguation)
- Independence Square (disambiguation), several public squares around the world
- International System of Units (SI), the modern form of the metric system
- Interstate (disambiguation)
- Islamic state, a form of government based on Islamic law
Topics referred to by the same term
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