Psi
Appearance
Psi or PSI or Ψ may refer to:
Alphabetic letters
- Psi (Greek) (Ψ, ψ), 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet
- Psi (Cyrillic) (Ѱ, ѱ), a letter of the early Cyrillic alphabet, adopted from Greek
Mathematics
- Tangential angle of a curve
- Chebyshev function
- Dedekind psi function
- Digamma function
- Polygamma functions
- Stream function, in two-dimensional flows
Mind related
- Psychology or psychologist, denoted Ψ, used in the logo of various psychological associations
- Psi Chi, the National Honor Society in Psychology
- Psi-Theory, a theory about the human mind, a cognitive architecture
- Psi (parapsychology), psychic or paranormal phenomena
- Psi hit, a parapsychological experimentation term
- Paranormal Site Investigators, an education and research charity in the UK
Natural science and technology
- PSI (computational chemistry), software
- PSI (prion), an infectious protein in yeast
- Psi (instant messaging client), an XMPP client program
- Pandemic severity index, by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Pounds per square inch, a unit of pressure
- Photosystem I, a protein complex involved in photosynthesis
- Pneumonia severity index
- Pollutant Standards Index, an air pollution measure
- Porous silicon, a material
- Program-specific information, part of the MPEG transport stream protocol
- Protein Structure Initiative, a structural genomics initiative of the U.S. NIGMS
- J/psi meson, a subatomic particle
- Water potential, denoted Ψ, in physical chemistry, the potential energy of a water solution relative to pure water
- Wave function, denoted ψ, in quantum mechanics
- 'Yaw' angle, one of the Euler angles, denoted ψ in aerospace engineering
- Potentially Shippable Increment, an acronym used in Scrum
- Pre Shipment Inspection, also called Final Random Inspection (FRI)
Organizations
- Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland
- Poetry Slam, Inc.
- Policy Studies Institute, a UK organization affiliated with the University of Westminster which undertakes research in matters pertaining to work and social policy and the environment
- Population Services International, an international healthcare NGO based in Washington DC
- Professional Secretaries International
- Professors for a Strong Israel, a right-wing group of academics in Israel
- Psychiatric Solutions, Inc., a corporation that owns psychiatric hospitals
- Public Services International, a global union federation of public sector trade unions
- Statisticians in the Pharmaceutical Industry
TV and comics
- PSI, the psychic power used by some characters in the EarthBound series
- Psi (comics), a character in DC Comics
- Psi Corps, in the Babylon 5 fictional universe, the ruling body of Earth's telepaths
- Psi Division, a division in the Judge Dredd and 2000 AD series of comics
- Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal, a Canadian television series
- Psi-Force, a comic series
- Psi-Hawk, a comic character
- Psi Lords, a comic series
- Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy, a video game in which characters use psychic powers
Music
- PSI Records, a music record label
- Psi Com, a 1980s rock band
Albums
- Ψ CMX DVD a Finnish language video album by band CMX
- PSI (album), an album by Pitchshifter
Songs
- Psi Power, a 1978 song by the UK rock group Hawkwind
Politics and government
- Partai Sosialis Indonesia ("Indonesian Socialist Party")
- Italian Socialist Party (Partito Socialista Italiano)
- Italian Socialist Party (2007)
- United States Senate Homeland Security Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, a sub-committee of the U.S. Senate
- Proliferation Security Initiative, an international effort to interdict transfer of banned weapons and weapons technology
- Public Sector Information, as in
- The European Union Directive on the re-use of public sector information (PSI directive), adopted in November 2003
- The United Kingdom's Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI), formerly Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO)
Finance
- Private sector involvement, in sovereign-debt restructuring deals
Miscellaneous
- Pechersk School International, in Kiev, Ukraine
- Permanent staff instructor, in the British Army
- PSI-20, a stock market index of companies that trade on Euronext Lisbon, the main stock exchange of Portugal
- Psi Islands in the Melchior Islands, Antarctica
- Presentence investigation report, an investigation into the history of person convicted of a crime
- Pre-shipment inspection, a method of quality control
- Professional Skills Institute, a private university in Toledo, Ohio
- Pitch Shifter Industries, an acronym used by the British band Pitchshifter