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 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.
• Nuclear Information Service, NIS is a not-for-profit, independent information service based in the UK, which works to promote public awareness and foster debate on nuclear disarmament and related safety and environmental issues.

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.
• Normalized Innovation Squared, used for statistical tests.

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.
• Nagoya International School, located near the Japanese city of Nagoya, Aichi prefecture
• National innovation system, which examines knowledge production in a firm