Isis (disambiguation) explained

Isis is a goddess from the polytheistic pantheon of Ancient Egypt.

Isis or ISIS may also refer to:

• ISIS, an acronym for the unrecognized state sometimes known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.

Computing

• ISIS (operating system), used on the Intel 8085 processor
• CDS ISIS, a non-numerical information storage and retrieval software developed by UNESCO
• Image and Scanner Interface Specification
• Infinitely Scalable Information Storage, a video storage system from Avid Technology
• Integrated Software for Imagers and Spectrometers, software to process data collected by NASA planetary missions
• IS-IS or ISIS, a network routing protocol
• ISIS/Draw, a chemistry modelling program
• Softcard or Isis Mobile Wallet, a mobile payment system
• Unity ISIS, a storage device
• Integrated Scientific Information System, software programs including the MDL Chime plug-in
• ISIS, a variant of the JOSS programming language

Fictional characters

• Isis (Bluewater Comics)
• Isis (DC Comics)
• Isis (Marvel Comics)
• Isis (Stargate)

Music

• Isis (band), an American post-metal band
• Isis (horn-rock band), a 1970s all-female band
• Lin Que or Isis, a member of Deadly Venoms
• Isis (Lully), a 1677 opera
• "Isis" (song), a song by Bob Dylan, from his 1976 album Desire
• "Isis", a song by Delta-S from Voyage to Isis
• "Isis", a song by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs from Is Is
• "ISIS" (song), a song by Joyner Lucas featuring Logic

Organizations

• Independent Schools Information Service, part of the Independent Schools Council
• Isis Innovation or Oxford University Innovation, a British technology transfer company
• ISIS Equity Partners or Livingbridge, a private equity firm headquartered in London
• HM Prison Isis, a young offenders institution in London
• Institute for Science and International Security, an American non-governmental institution
• Institute for the Scientific Investigation of Sexuality or the Family Research Institute, an American anti-gay organization
• Institute for the Secularisation of Islamic Society, an American organization
• International Society for Iranian Studies or the Association for Iranian Studies, a U.S.-based academic organization
• International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry
• International Species Information System or Species360, a zoo and aquarium software development and data-sharing organization
• ISIS Group or the Adara Group, an international development organisation dealing with issues of human trafficking
• Isis-Urania Temple, a religious group
• Innovative Solutions In Space, a Dutch aerospace company

Periodicals

• Isis (journal), a journal on the history of science, medicine and technology
• Isis magazine, a student magazine at Oxford University
• Isis (journal, 1816), a periodical by Lorenz Oken

Places

• Isis (lunar crater)
• 42 Isis, an asteroid
• Electoral district of Isis, a former state electoral district in Queensland, Australia
• Shire of Isis, a former local government area in Queensland, Australia
• Port of Isis, Bulhar
• Isis Highway, a highway in Queensland, Australia
• The Isis, the upper part of the River Thames in Oxford, UK
  • Isis Bridge, across the River Thames near Oxford, UK
• Isis River, Queensland, a locality in Queensland, Australia
• Isis River (Queensland), a river in Queensland, Australia
• Isis, Ohio, an unincorporated community
• Isis Temple, a prominence in the Grand Canyon in the United States

Science

• 42 Isis, an asteroid
• Isis (genus), a soft coral genus
• ISIS (satellite), a series of Canadian satellites
• Hippotion isis, a species of moth
• International Studies of Infarct Survival, a set of clinical trials
• ISIS neutron source, a pulsed neutron and muon source
• Isis, a former research reactor at CEA Saclay
• ISIS, alternate abbreviation for IS☉IS, an instrument aboard the Parker Solar Probe spacecraft to Earth's Sun

Ships

• Isis (ship), a grain ship of Ancient Rome, described by Lucian
• HMS Isis (1774), a 50-gun fourth rate
• HMS Isis (1819), a 50-gun fourth rate
• HMS Isis (1896), an Eclipse-class protected cruiser
• HMS Isis (D87), an I-class destroyer launched in 1936
• HMS Isis (M2010), a Ley-class minehunter launched in 1955 as HMS Cradley
• USC&GS Isis, an early 20th-century survey ship

Sports

• Isis Waterski Club
• Isis, an Oxford University reserve rowing crew at the Boat Race

Television

• Isis (TV series) or The Secrets of Isis
• "Isis", an episode of Smallville
• Project Isis (Chuck), a fictional spy operation in Chuck
• International Secret Intelligence Service, a fictional spy agency in Archer

Transportation

• Integrated Sensor is Structure, a project to develop an airship for intelligence use
• Integrated standby instrument system, a backup instrument display for aircraft
• ISIS Drive or International Splined Interface Standard, a bicycle bottom bracket interface specification
• Morris Isis, a car by Morris Motors from 1929 to 1931 and a car from the British Motor Corporation in the 1950s
• Toyota Isis, a seven-seat large MPV

Other uses

• Isis (given name)
• Integrated Secure Identification System
• Isis District State High School
• "Isis" of the Suebi, a goddess in the first-century book Germania
• Is, is or isis, an English sentence with the word "is" twice in succession
• Tropical Storm Isis, six tropical cyclones worldwide have been named Isis.

See also

• HMS Isis, a list of British Royal Navy ships
• ISI (disambiguation)
• Isis Eaglet, a character in Magical Chronicle Lyrical Nanoha Force
• Isis River (disambiguation), any of several rivers
• Tropical Storm Isis, a name formerly used for Pacific hurricanes
• Iset for a list of ancient Egyptian figures with the same name as the goddess
• Isyss, an R&B group
• Mysteries of Isis, religious initiation rites performed in the Greco-Roman world
• Name changes due to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
• Names of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
• ISIS-KP, or the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Khorasan Province, an offshoot of the ISIS operating primarily in Afghanistan and South-East Asia