MIPS

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MIPS may refer to:

Technology

• Million instructions per second, a measure of a computer's central processing unit performance
• MIPS architecture, a RISC instruction set architecture
• Maximum intensity projection, a volume rendering technique
• Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer, an instrument on the Spitzer Space Telescope
• Multi-directional Impact Protection System, a 'slip-plane' technology inside athletic helmets designed to reduce rotational forces that can result from certain impacts
• Stanford MIPS, (for Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages) a research project at Stanford University that was commercialized by MIPS Computer Systems
• MIPS-X, a follow-on project to the Stanford MIPS

Organizations

• Maharana Institute of Professional Studies, an institution in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
• Mansehra International Public School and College in Mansehra, Pakistan
• MIPS Technologies, formerly MIPS Computer Systems, the developer of the MIPS architecture
• Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Science (MIPS) in Parkville, Victoria
• Munich Information Center for Protein Sequences, a genomics research center in Germany

Other

• Material input per unit of service, an economic efficiency indicator
• Merit-Based Payment Incentive System, a payment mechanism that provides annual updates to physicians based on performance in multiple categories
• Menards Infiniti Pro Series, a former name of an Indy Pro Series automobile race
• Monthly income preferred stock, a financial instrument
• MIPS, a rabbit in Super Mario 64
• Minimum Ionizing Particles, a term widely used in experimental particle physics.