IA

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IA or ia may mean:

Places

• Ia or Oia, Greece, a small town on the island of Santorini.
• Iowa, U.S.A. (postal abbreviation).

Companies and organizations

• Internal affairs (law enforcement), a division of a law enforcement agency which investigates incidents and suspicions of lawbreaking and professional misconduct attributed to officers on the force.
• Iraqi Airways (IATA airline designator).
• Indian Airlines, a domestic air carrier in India.
• Indian Army, part of the Military of India.
• International Academy, a public high-school in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, U.S.A.
• Inuit Ataqatigiit, a left-wing party in Greenland, Denmark.
• International Artists, a record label

Language

• Insha'Allah, Arabic word meaning "If God wills".
• Interlingua (ISO 639 alpha-2, ia).

Microprocessor designs by Intel

• IA-4, the founding of microprocessors.
• IA-8, microcomputer CPU of the 1970s.
• IA-16, CISC architecture that established the x86 CPUs.
• IA-32, CISC over RISC architecture found in 32-bit x86 CPUs.
• IA-64, EPIC variant VLIW architecture found in Itaniums.

People

• Saint Ia, the martyr of Persia in the 4th century a.D.
• Saint Ia of Cornwall.
• Swedish guitarist Mattias "IA" Eklundh.
• ia, a VJ on MTV Japan.

Biology

• Ia (genus), of vespertilionid bats.

Internet and information technology

• Intelligence amplification, the process of enhancing human intelligence through the use of technology.
• Information architecture, the practice of structuring information (knowledge or data).
• Information assurance, dealing with trust aspects of information.
• Internet Archive, a non-profit organization dedicated to maintaining an archive of web and multimedia resources.

Events

• International Assault, a professional wrestling show staged in Australia.

Fiction

• Irken Armada, a horde of alien invaders from the Nickelodeon TV Series Invader Zim.
• Iä, a prayer to the Great Old Ones in H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.