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

[edit] Words

Words formed from the letters "is" include:

  • Is (verb), the third-person singular form of "to be" in the English language
  • "is" (plural "ises"), anything factual, empirical, actual, or spatiotemporal, in is-ought philosophy
  • "is", the Anglo-Saxon form of the rune Isaz
  • Is or I's, plural of any of several meanings of "I", particularly:
  • Is or Hīt, an Iraqi town on the Euphrates
  • Is or Ys (also Ker-Ys or Ville d'Is), a mythical city of 5th-century Brittany
  • "is-" (Greek isos), a prefix similar to "iso-", meaning equal, homogeneous, or uniform
  • I"s, a manga by Masakazu Katsura with main characters Ichitaka and Iori
  • i\,s, imaginary units in the complex number system
  • {\hat{\imath}}s, unit vectors along the x-axis

[edit] Abbreviations

As a two-letter abbreviation, "IS", "Is", or "is" may refer to:

  • Image stabilization, a family of techniques to reduce blur caused by lens shakes
  • Immune system, organic mechanisms that protect against disease
  • Independence Square, any of several public squares around the world
  • Independent Soldiers, a Canadian gang
  • Information science, the study of data collection, manipulation, and dissemination
  • Information system, an organization of data-processing persons, records, and activities
  • Insertion sequence, a short DNA transposable element
  • Intelligent Sport, the Lexus IS compact-sized sedan made by Toyota
  • 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
  • International Sign, considered a pidgin sign language
  • International Socialists, any of several Trotskyist political organizations
  • Internet slang, slang terms used on the Internet and in text and instant messages
  • Interservice, between or among different branches of one nation's armed forces
  • Intersexual, an organism with sex characteristics neither exclusively male nor female
    • IS, a manga about intersexuals by Chiyo Rokuhana
  • Interstate, between states, in any of several meanings
  • Intrinsic safety, a protection technique for electronic equipment in explosive atmospheres
  • 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:
  • Isaiah, a prophet of the Bible, and namesake:
  • Island, or isle, an isolated piece of land surrounded by water
  • Ísland or Iceland (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2), a North Atlantic nation
    • ".is", Iceland's top-level Internet domain
  • Island Airlines (IATA reservation code), an American aviation firm merged into Air BC
  • Íslenska or Icelandic (ISO 639-1 alpha-2), the language of Iceland
  • Israel (NATO country code), a Middle Eastern nation
  • Istrebitel Sputnikov or interceptor of satellites, a Russian anti-satellite weapon

[edit] See also

  • E-Prime, a modified English syntax and vocabulary lacking all forms of "to be"
  • Klingon language, a fictional language in the Star Trek universe lacking the verb "to be"
  • Orang Asli, a Malaysian people whose language lacks the verb "to be"
  • Sioux languages, some of which lack the verb "to be"
  • Lexus IS a performance sedan from Lexus
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