IR

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IR may refer to:

Medicine:

• Insulin resistance
• Interventional radiology
• Immediate-release (formulation of a drug)

Other:

• Engineer ("Ir" for Ingénieur), someone who practices the profession of engineering
• ImageReady (Adobe), a bitmap graphics editor shipped with Adobe Photoshop by Adobe Systems
• Indian Railways, the state-owned railway company of India
• Industrial relations (labor relations)
• Ingersoll-Rand Company Limited (NYSE trading symbol IR)
• Information retrieval, the science of searching for information in documents, searching for documents themselves, searching for metadata which describe documents, or searching within databases
• Informational Revolution, one of the theoretical frameworks within which trends in current society can be conceptualized
• Infrared (electromagnetic radiation)
• Injured reserve, a special sports reserve list for professional teams to use if a player is injured and unable to play for an extended time
• Institutional repository, an online locus for collecting and preserving - in digital form - the intellectual output of an institution, particularly a research institution
• Instrument Rating, refers to the qualifications that a pilot must have in order to fly under Instrument Flight Rules (IFR)
• International Rules a hybrid code of football
• Integrated Resort, a euphemism for a casino in Singapore
• Intermediate representation, a computer data structure
• Internal Revenue Service, the United States government agency that collects taxes and enforces the internal revenue laws. The IRS is a bureau of the Department of the Treasury
• International Rectifier Corp., a manufacturer of power semiconductors
• International relations, a branch of political science, is the study of foreign affairs of and relations among states within the international system
• International Rescue, the fictional organisation featured in Thunderbirds (TV series)
• Inter-racial, particularly in the Pornography industry.
• Inverted repeat, a sequence of nucleotides that is the reversed complement of another sequence further downstream
• Investor relations, a set of activities which relate to the ways in which a company discloses information required for regulatory compliance and good investment judgment to bond and/or shareholders and the wider financial markets
• Iran (country code: IR, Internet domain: .ir)
• Iran Air (IATA airline code IR)
• Iridium (chemical symbol: Ir)
• Irish Rail, the national passenger and freight railway system of the Republic of Ireland
• Republican Party of Minnesota, formerly Independent-Republican Party of Minnesota
• Incident report