Isa (disambiguation)

Isa is the name by which Jesus is known in the Muslim world.

Isa may also refer to:

• Isha Upanishad, Hindu religious text
• Isa (album), 2004 album by Enslaved
• Isa (name), common Arabic and Turkish male name
• Isa the iguana, a character in Dora the Explorer
• Jesus
• Is-a, a relationship where one class D is a subclass of another class B

Places

• Isa, Nigeria, local government area in Sokoto State
• Mount Isa, Queensland, city in northwest Queensland, Australia
• Isa, Kagoshima, a city in Japan
• Isa District, Kagoshima, district in Japan scheduled to dissolve when the City of Isa opens

ISA as a three-letter acronym

Chatting

• In Shaa' Allah, means "God Willing" in Arabic, widely used by Muslim chatters

Computing

• Isa (computer science), a relationship between objects; for instance, an apple tree "is a" tree
• Instruction set architecture
• Industry Standard Architecture, an I/O bus standard for IBM-compatible PC motherboards
• Integrated Services Architecture or Integrated services
• Information Security Architecture, a buzzword variant for information security
• ISA platform ("NOS"), an operating system software for Nokia mobile telephones
• Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server, a Microsoft server product
• International Society of Automation, a professional organization for instrument engineers
• Internet Security Alliance, anti-cyber crime association
• Information Security Administration

Engineering

• International Society of Automation, a professional organization for instrument engineers, formerly named the Instrument Society of America

Chemistry

• Isosaccharinic acid, a product of degradation of cellulose at high pH

Health - Pharmacology

• Intrinsic sympatheticomimetic activity, a relative descriptive term relating the activity of a partial agonist

Politics

• International Seabed Authority, an intergovernmental body based in Kingston, Jamaica established to organize and control all mineral-related activities in international seabed areas
• International Searching Authority, a patent office performing prior art searches during the prosecution of international patent applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty
• Ideological State Apparatus, a term used by Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser for how society reshapes the individual in its own image

Aviation and Space exploration

• International Standard Atmosphere, a tabulation with altitude of the standard variation of pressure, temperature, density, viscosity, etc.
• Iranian Space Agency, Iran's governmental space agency
• Israel Space Agency, Israel's governmental space agency
• Italian Space Agency, Italy's governmental space agency

Education

• Independent Schools Association (Australia), a grouping of schools primarily based in Sydney, Australia, for the purposes of sporting competitions
• Independent Schools Association (UK), one of the oldest of the independent schools’ organisations in the UK
• Iniciativa de Salud de las Americas, the Spanish name of the immigration advocacy group at UC Berkeley, Health Initiative of the Americas
• Institute for the Study of the Americas, a research institute associated with the University of London's School of Advanced Study
• Instituto Superior de Agronomia, an agronomy faculty in Lisbon, Portugal
• Instituto Superior de Arte an art school in Havana, Cuba
• International School Amsterdam, an international school in the Netherlands
• International School of Aleppo, the only international school in Syria and it's located in Aleppo city
• International School of Arizona, a not-for-profit school located in Scottsdale, Arizona
• International School of Athens International Baccalaureate educational school in Athens, Greece
• International School of the Americas, a magnet school located in San Antonio, Texas
• International Studies Association, an association of political science and international relations scholars

Finance

• International Standards on Auditing, professional standards for the performance of audits of financial information
• Individual Savings Account, a financial account for investment in the UK with special tax rules
• Israel Securities Authority, the Israeli regulator of financial and stock market

Other

• Intelligent speed adaptation
• Intelligence Support Activity, a special operations unit of the U.S. Army
• Infectious salmon anemia, a viral disease of salmon
• ISA (Days of our Lives), International Security Alliance, fictional spy agency on the NBC soap opera Days of our Lives
• International Sign Association, a trade-organization of sign producers
• International Society of Arboriculture, a non-profit botanical organization
• International Sociological Association, a non-profit organization in the fields of sociology and the social sciences
• ITER Staff Association - a union of employees of the ITER Organization
• International Standard Atmosphere, a definition of pressure, temperature, humidity and so forth, under the SI convention
• Interplanetary Strategic Alliance, an alliance in the Killzone series of video games.
• International Symbol of Access, an image of a stylized person in a wheelchair against a blue background, meant to designate handicap accessibility at a glance
• Interstellar Alliance, an alliance in Babylon 5 to fight the Shadows
• Irish Sailing Association, the governing body for sailing in Ireland
• Independent Safeguarding Authority, a body created in England, Wales and Northern Ireland to help prevent those who pose a known risk from working with children and vulnerable adults
• ISA (company), Intelligent Sensing Anywhere, a Portuguese company specialized in telemetry and M2M (Machine to Machine) communications
• ISA - Indian Students Association (in Many Universities/Colleges outside of India)

See also

• Internal Security Act (disambiguation)