Dis

Dis may refer to:

Academic institutions

• Danube International School (DIS), a private international school in Vienna, Austria

• DIS – Danish Institute for Study Abroad, an English language study abroad program located in Copenhagen, Denmark
• Dili International School (DIS), an International School in Dili, Timor Leste (East Timor)

Companies

• Dansk IngeniørService A/S, Danish Engineering company within technology and product development
• Disney Interactive Studios, worldwide American video game company
• The Walt Disney Company (NYSE stock symbol "DIS")

Computer topics

• "Dis", an interpreted programming language derived from Malbolge
• Dis virtual machine, the virtual machine in the Inferno operating system
• Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS), a standard for conducting real-time platform-level wargaming across multiple host computers

Games

• "Dis", the second of the Nine Hells in the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game universe (see Baator)

Military

• Defence Intelligence Staff, an element of the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence
• Defence Industrial Strategy, a United Kingdom government policy
• Defense Investigative Service, an agency of the United States Department of Defense
• Mikoyan-Gurevich DIS, Soviet long-range escort fighter

Music and film

• Dis (album), a 1976 album by Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek
• Abu-Dis, a CD album of remixes by Muslimgauze of other artists' material
• "City of Dis", a song by Brazilian thrash metal band Sepultura from their 2006 release Dante XXI
• "dis–", the opening theme song of the anime series Infinite Ryvius, performed by Mika Arisaka
• Drowned in Sound, a webzine concentrating on new music
• Dís, a soundtrack album by Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson
• "Chambers of Dis", a song by Florida death metal band Morbid Angel from their 1998 release Formulas Fatal to the Flesh
• The musical note D♯, in German nomenclature
• Dis – en historie om kjærlighet (A Story About Love in English), a 1995 Norwegian film
• "DIS", a song by Japanese visual band The GazettE
• "Dis oui" ("Say yes"), Belgian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1998
• "Dis rien" ("Say nothing"), Monegasque entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1962
• Dis-moi qui tuer (Tell Me Whom to Kill), a 1965 French drama film directed by Etienne Périer

People

• Adriaan van Dis (born 1946), Dutch author, with Indo (Eurasian) roots
• Fríða Dís Guðmundsdóttir (born 1987), Icelandic vocalist, bassist, and flautist
• Leendert van Dis (born 1944), Dutch rower who competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics
• Vladislav Petković Dis, Serbian poet, part of the impressionism movement in European poetry

Places

• Abu Dis, Palestinian town in the Jerusalem Governorate, bordering Jerusalem
• Ad Dis, a village in eastern Yemen
• Ad Dis District, a district of the Hadhramaut Governorate, Yemen

Religion, mythology, and fiction

• Dis (Divine Comedy), the fictional city in The Divine Comedy that contains the lower circles of hell and alternate name for Lucifer
• Dis, an alternative name for Satan
• Dīs, the alternative name for Pluto (mythology)
• Dis Pater, predecessor of Pluto in Roman Mythology and ancestor of the Gauls according to Roman thought
• Dís, singular of dísir, a group of goddesses in Norse mythology
• Dís (Middle-earth), a female Dwarf from J. R. R. Tolkien's universe

Science

• Dis (skipper), a genus of skipper butterflies in the family Hesperiidae
• Deep inelastic scattering, which occurs when two particles scatter and one breaks up into its constituents
• Grotella dis, a species of moth in the genus Grotella, of the family Noctuidae

Other acronyms

• Daytona International Speedway,a race track in Daytona Beach, Florida
• Dipartimento delle Informazioni per la Sicurezza, an Italian intelligence agency
• Draft International Standard, a stage in standardization process used by International Organization for Standardization
• DIS, MTR Station code for the Disneyland Resort Station on the Hong Kong MTR Disneyland Resort Line