NIS
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Nis can refer to:
- Niš, a city in Serbia.
- Ness, Western Isles (Scottish Gaelic: Nis), a village in the Outer Hebrides islands.
In politics and government:
- New Israeli sheqel, the currency unit of Israel.
- Newly Independent State, a title used for a former Soviet republic after the fall of the USSR.
- Norwegian National Intelligence Service, Norway's military intelligence agency.
- National Intelligence Service (Albania), Albania's new state security agency.
- National Intelligence Service (South Korea), South Korea's state security agency.
- Naval Investigative Service, the predecessor of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) as the U.S. Navy's internal law enforcement branch.
- Statistics Belgium (Dutch: Nationaal Instituut voor de Statistiek, French: Institut National de Statistique), the main government statistics office of Belgium.
In computing:
- Network Information Service, also known as "Yellow Pages" (YP); a client-server directory service protocol by Sun Microsystems for managing a network.
- Norton Internet Security, a utility suite combining Norton AntiVirus and Norton Personal Firewall.
- Nippon Ichi Software, a developer and publisher of video games.
- Network information system, a system to manage other networks.
NIS can also refer to:
- Naftna Industrija Srbije, an oil company in Serbia.
- N-Iodosuccinimide, a reagent used in organic synthesis and source of electrophilic iodine.