Isis (disambiguation) explained

Isis most commonly refers to the Egyptian goddess Isis, or as an acronym for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

Isis or ISIS may also refer to:

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
• "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, 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