IA

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IA, Ia, or ia may refer to:

Places

• Ia or Oia, Greece, a small town on the island of Santorini
• Iowa, U.S. (postal abbreviation)
• Iá River, a river in Brazil

Companies and organizations

• Indian Airlines, a domestic air carrier in India
• Indian Army, part of the Military of India
• Intact America, a non-profit organization against routine infant circumcision
• International Academy, a public high-school in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, U.S.
• International Artists, a record label
• Internet Archaeology, an electronic journal
• Inuit Ataqatigiit, a left-wing party in Greenland
• Iraqi Airways, in IATA airline designator
• Iraqi Army, US military abbreviation for Iraqi Army
• Indiana Academy, a private Seventh-Day Adventist high school.

Language

• Interlingua (ISO 639 alpha-2, ia)
• Inter alia (i.a.), Latin meaning among other things
• Insha'Allah (iA), Arabic meaning "God Willing" or "if Allah wills." Often interchangeable with 'hopefully.'

People

• Ia of Persia, 4th-century martyr of Persia, feast day celebrated in Eastern Orthodox liturgy on September 11
• Ia of Cornwall (5th or 6th century), saint of Cornwall
• Mattias Eklundh, Swedish guitarist

Science

• Inflammatory arthritis
• Ia (genus), of vespertilionid bats
• Ia or I-a, a subtype of Type I supernova; see Type Ia supernova
• Interactions of actors theory
• The first part of a Phase I clinical trial

Internet and technology

• Intelligence amplification, the process of enhancing human intelligence through the use of technology
• Intelligent agent, in artificial intelligence, an autonomous entity which observes through sensors and acts upon an environment
• Information architecture, the practice of structuring information (knowledge or data)
• Information assurance, dealing with trust aspects of information
• Integrated amplifier, an electronic device
• Internet Archive, a non-profit organization dedicated to maintaining an archive of web and multimedia resources
• InstallAnywhere, a Java-based software tool for creating installers or software packages, for multiple platforms
• Instrumentation amplifier, a type of differential amplifier
• IA-32, Intel Architecture, 32-bit
• IA-64, Intel Architecture, 64-bit

Fiction

• Ia, an 1892 novelette by Arthur Quiller-Couch
• "Iä", a fictional word (often used in chants) in the works of H. P. Lovecraft

Archaeology

• IA, The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology, an academic journal
• Industrial archaeology, an archaeological discipline
• Iron Age
• In Levantine archaeology, Iron Age Ia, a subperiod of the early Iron Age

Other uses

• Initial appearance in a court of law, of a person charged with a crime
• Intermediate in Arts, an academic degree
• 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
• Internal audit, a business profession specializing in the removal of impediments to organizational objectives
• International Arbiter, a chess title awarded by the World Chess Federation
• Prefix for aircraft manufactured in the Argentinian Fabrica Argentina de Aviones (formerly "Fabrica militar de Aviones") since 1952
• Íþróttabandalag Akraness, an Icelandic football team playing in the Urvalsdeild
• Individual augmentee, a U.S. military program for augmenting units with personnel from other organizations or branches of service
• IA, a humanoid persona for Vocaloid 3 developed by 1st Place
• IA (chemotherapy), a chemotherapy regimen that consists of Idarubicin x 3 days plus Ara-C (cytarabine) x 7 days, a variant of the classical "7+3" induction regimen for acute myelogenous leukemia.

See also

• Ice Age (disambiguation)
• AI (disambiguation)