IS

"IS", "Is", or "is" may refer to:

Language and words

Words formed from the letters "is" include:

• "is", the third form of the verb "to be" at present tense, in the English language. For copulative usage see Copula (linguistics)
• "is" (from Greek isos), a prefix meaning equal, homogeneous, or uniform
• "is" (plural "ises") is a fact, empirical state, with space and time finite limits, in is-ought philosophy
• "is", the Anglo-Saxon form of the rune Isaz
• I formation in American football
• One or capital "i" in Roman numerals
• Selves known by the pronoun "I"
• Incompletes, scores used in academic grading in North America
• Particular affirmative premises in syllogistics, the third premise form coded by a vowel
• I's or i's is the plural form of i-number in Math, whereas:
  • is the imaginary unit in a complex number representation. Property:
  • is a unit vector along the OX-axis in the Cartesian coordinate system. The angle to the second unit vector on OY axis is . Property

Geographical locations

• Is or Hit, an Iraqi town on the Euphrates River
• Is or Ys (also Ker-Ys or Ville d'Issy), a mythical city in the 5th-century Britain in France

Arts and entertainment

• Is (album), a 1969 studio album by jazz pianist Chick Corea
• I"s, a Japanese cartoon or anime by Masakazu Katsura with main characters Ichitaka and Iori

Abbreviations

As a two-letter abbreviation, "I.S.", "I.s.", or "i.s." may refer to:

• IS - Iaşi County (Romania)n AUTO registration indicative
• IS, sometimes SI or I.S.U, an abbreviation for Standard Unit in the International System of Units of measurement.
• ".is", Iceland's top-level Internet domain (TLD)
• IS, a manga anime about intersexuals by Chiyo Rokuhana
• IS tank, a Soviet heavy tank in World War II
• Locomotive IS, a Soviet passenger steam locomotive
• The Book of Isaiah, a book of the Bible
• Ilta-Sanomat, a newspaper in Finland
• Image stabilization, a family of techniques to reduce blur caused by lens shakes
• Immune system, organic mechanisms that protect against disease
• Importance sampling, a statistical technique for estimating properties of a particular distribution
• Independence Square (disambiguation), any of several public squares around the world
• Independent Soldiers, a Canadian gang
• IS (Infinite Stratos), a Japanese light novel series
• Information science, the study of data collection, manipulation, and dissemination
• Information systems, organizations of data-processing persons, records, and activities
• Insertion sequence, a short DNA transposable element
• Intelligent Systems, a first-party videogame developer and internal team of Nintendo
• IntelliStar, a computer system used to display local forecasts on The Weather Channel
• Intermediate school, education between primary and secondary
• Internal security, the work of keeping domestic peace by a national force
• internal Section, a video game developed by Square
• International Sign, considered a pidgin sign language
• International Socialists (disambiguation), any of several Trotskyist political organizations
• Internet slang, slang terms used on the Internet and in text and instant messages
• Intersexual, an organism with sex characteristics neither exclusively male nor female
• Interstate (disambiguation), between states, in any of several meanings
• Intrinsic safety, a protection technique for electronic equipment in explosive atmospheres
• Inverness TMD, a railway station with depot code IS
• Isaiah, a prophet of the Bible, and namesake
• Ísland or Iceland (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2), a North Atlantic nation
• Island, or isle, an isolated piece of land surrounded by water
• Íslenska or Icelandic (ISO 639-1 alpha-2), the language of Iceland
• Israel (NATO country code), a Middle Eastern nation
• Intelligent Sport, the Lexus IS compact-sized sedan made by Toyota
• International Standard, a mounting standard for the calipers and rotors of disc-type bicycle brake systems
• Interservice, between or among different branches of one nation's armed forces
• Investment/Saving equilibrium, a curve in the Keynesian IS/LM economic model
• Iosif Stalin or Joseph Stalin, General Secretary of the Soviet Union, and namesakes
• Island Airlines (IATA reservation code), an American aviation firm merged into Air BC
• Istrebitel Sputnik or "Fighter Satellite", a Soviet anti-satellite weapon
• InstallShield, a software tool for creating installers or software packages
• Province of Isernia in Italy

See also

• Lexus IS, a sports car from Lexus