IS


IS


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 is, used in Python
  • the type comparison operator is, 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

Text submitted to CC-BY-SA license. Source: IS by Wikipedia (Historical)




 




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