Dis

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Dis is usually a proper name and may mean:

Contents 1 Religion, mythology, and fiction 2 Music 3 Computer topics 4 Games 5 Acronyms and slang

[edit] Religion, mythology, and fiction

• Dis, the fictional city in The Divine Comedy) that contains the lower circles of Hell; also an alternate name for Lucifer in the same work
• Dis Pater, predecessor of Pluto in Roman Mythology and ancestor of the Gauls according to Roman thought
• Dís, singular of dísir, a group of minor goddesses in Norse mythology
• Pluto, as the alternate name "Dīs"
• Dís, a Dwarf belonging to J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth universe

[edit] Music

• "dis-", the opening theme song of the anime series Infinite Ryvius, performed by Mika Arisaka
• Dis-, a rock trio from Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• Drowned In Sound, a webzine concentrating on new music

[edit] Computer topics

• "Dis", an interpreted programming language derivated from Malbolge
• "Dis" (see Limbo programming language), the virtual machine in the Inferno operating system

[edit] Games

• "Dis", the name of mission eight in episode three(Inferno) in the original Doom(PC game)
• "Dis" (see Baator), the second of the Nine Hells in the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game universe
• "Dis," a fictional city in the Altered Beast video game

[edit] Acronyms and slang

• Distributed Interactive Simulation, a standard for conducting real-time platform-level wargaming across multiple host computers
• Deep inelastic scattering, which occurs when two particles scatter and one break up into its constiutents
• to dis, African American Vernacular English slang meaning "to disrespect"