NIS
Appearance
NiS may refer to:
- Nickel sulfide NiS
Nis or NIS may refer to:
- Niš, a city in south-eastern Serbia.
- Ness, Western Isles (Scottish Gaelic: Nis), a village in the Outer Hebrides islands.
In politics and government:
- New Israeli Shekel, the currency unit of Israel.
- Newly Independent State, a title used for a former Soviet republic after the fall of the USSR.
- National Intelligence Service (South Korea), South Korea's state security agency.
- National Intelligence Service (Greece), Greece's national intelligence agency.
- Norwegian Intelligence Service, Norway's military intelligence agency.
- Naval Investigative Service, the predecessor of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) as the U.S. Navy's internal law enforcement branch.
- Statistics Belgium (Dutch: Nationaal Instituut voor de Statistiek, French: Institut National de Statistique), the main government statistics office of Belgium.
- Nuclear Information Service, NIS is a not-for-profit, independent information service based in the UK, which works to promote public awareness and foster debate on nuclear disarmament and related safety and environmental issues.
- National Institute of Statistics of Cambodia, the National statistical agency of Cambodia.
- Newly Independent States, the countries formerly in the Soviet Union
In computing:
- Network Information Service, also known as "Yellow Pages" (YP); a client-server directory service protocol by Sun Microsystems for managing a network.
- Norton Internet Security, computer security software developed by Symantec Corporation.
- Nippon Ichi Software, a developer and publisher of video games.
- Network information system, a system to manage other networks.
- Network and Information Security, a term extensively used by European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA).
In music
- Johnson (rapper), Danish rapper also known as N.I.S.
NIS can also refer to:
- Naftna Industrija Srbije, Petroleum Industry of Serbia
- Naked in School, A collection of pornographic/romantic stories based on the premise of a program requiring selected students to attend school naked.
- National Institute of Sports, an educational center in India
- National innovation system, which examines knowledge production in a firm
- N-Iodosuccinimide, a reagent used in organic synthesis and source of electrophilic iodine
- Sodium-iodide symporter, found in the thyroid gland
- The Nanjing International School, school serving the expatriate community of Nanjing
- Nishimachi International School, a private school in Tokyo, Japan
- The Nordic Integrated System, a type of ski binding in cross-country skiing developed by Rottefella
- The Norwegian International Ship Register, in Norwegian Norsk Internasjonalt Skipsregister (NIS)