Dis

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• Dis is usually a proper name that may refer to a number of mythological people and places.
• dis, as a verb, English slang meaning "to treat with disrespect."
• dis- (also di-, dif-), prefix first appeared in English words in the Middle English period in words borrowed from French

Contents 1 Religion, mythology, and fiction 2 Music 3 Computer topics 4 Games 5 Acronyms and slang 6 References

[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 alternative 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
• Dís, an sountrack album by Icelandic composer Johann Johannsson
• Chambers of Dis, a song by Florida Death Metal band Morbid Angel from their 1998 release Formulas Fatal to the Flesh

[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 the final boss level, in mission eight of episode three (Inferno) in the original Doom video 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
• "Dis", an ally in the RPG Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne.

[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" ^[1]

[edit] References

1. ^ 1986 Los Angeles Times 31 Aug. (Calendar) 87/4 Please give credit where credit is due - point an accusing finger at the Long Beach Police Department for not doing its job and stop the ‘dis’ (disrespect) on rap music for once and for all.