IS

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Is is the third-person singular verb form of the copula in the English language.

As two letter acronyms, IS and Is may refer to:

• Image stabilization
• Independence Square
• Information science, an interdisciplinary science primarily concerned with the collection, classification, manipulation, storage, retrieval and dissemination of information
• An initialism for Information services
• An initialism for Information systems
• Insertion sequence
• IntelliStar, a computer system used to display local forecasts on The Weather Channel
• Intermediate school
• International Sign (Deaf sign language/pidgin)
• International Socialists, a number of socialist political organizations
• Intrinsic safety
• In the IS/LM model, an economic model, the Investment Saving schedule of the non-financial real economy at equilibrium
• In the Bible, an abbreviation for the prophetic Book of Isaiah
• In geography, an abbreviation for Island(s).
• In geography, an abbreviation for Isle(s)
• An initialism for Intelligent Systems, a first-party developer for Nintendo
• An initialism for Istrebitel Sputnikov, a designation for Russian anti-satellite weapons

[edit] Codes

• Island Airlines, an American aviation firm's IATA reservation code
• Israel's NATO country code digram
• .is, Iceland's Top level domain
• Icelandic language (ISO 639-1 alpha-2 language code: is)

[edit] Miscellaneous

• I"s, a manga by Masakazu Katsura.
• I.S. (Aiesu), a manga about intersexuals by Chiyo Rokuhana.
• "is-" is a prefix that is similar or acts as an alternative to another main prefix: iso-.
• Lexus IS, the compact-sized sedan made by Toyota's Lexus division.
• The Anglo-Saxon Is-rune Isaz

[edit] See also

• E-Prime