ISS (disambiguation) explained

ISS is an abbreviation for the International Space Station.

ISS may also refer to:

Organisations

• Institute for Science and Society, an academic department at the University of Nottingham, England
• Institute for Security Studies, Pretoria, South Africa studying crime, corruption, and conflict in Africa
• Institute of Social Studies, an international institute in The Hague, the Netherlands
• International Social Service, a charitable, non-governmental organisation
• Information Systems & Services, a former part of the UK Ministry of Defence
• Internal Security Service, national security intelligence agency of Oman
• Istituto Superiore di Sanità, the Italian National Institute of Health
• Intercollegiate Socialist Society (1905–1921), an American political youth organization

Businesses

• ISS A/S, a Danish service company
• Institutional Shareholder Services, a proxy advisory firm
• Internet Security Systems, a security software vendor

Arts, entertainment, and media

• I.S.S. (film), an American science fiction thriller film
• International Staff Songsters, the flagship choir of the Salvation Army
• International Superstar Soccer, a video game series
  • ISS (2000 video game)
• Idea Star Singer, a Malayalam music reality show by Asianet TV
• Imperial Star Ship, a fictional spaceship designation prefix in Star Treks Mirror Universe

Education

• ISS International School, an international school in Singapore
• In-school suspension, a form of discipline used in some schools
• Instituto San Sebastián Yumbel, Chilean school in Yumbel, Chile

Science and technology

• Ion scattering spectroscopy or low-energy ion scattering, a materials analysis method
• Imaging Science Subsystem, Cassini–Huygens space probe instruments
• Instruction set simulator, a computer program that simulates a processor
• International Seismological Summary, an earthquake catalog
• Input Shaft Speed sensor, a sensor that measures the rotational speed of the input shaft in a vehicle

Medicine

• Idiopathic short stature, an unexplained short stature
• Injury Severity Score
• International Staging System, for the severity of multiple myeloma

Other uses

• Independent Subway System, a former rapid transit rail system in New York City, US
• Islamic State in Somalia, a faction of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
• ISS Hockey (International Scouting Services), ice hockey scouting service
• Air Italy (2005–2018) (ICAO: ISS), a defunct Italian airline
• IShowSpeed (born 2005), American YouTuber

See also

• IIS (disambiguation)
• ISIS (disambiguation)