INS or Ins may refer to:

Places

  • Ins, Switzerland, a municipality
  • Creech Air Force Base (IATA airport code INS)
  • Indonesia, ITF and UNDP code INS
  • INS Park, an entertainment complex in China

Biology

  • Ins, a New World genus of bee flies
  • INS, the gene for the insulin precursor

Arts, entertainment, and media

  • Indian Newspaper Society
  • International News Service, US, 1909–1958

Enterprises and organizations

  • International Necronautical Society
  • International Network Services Inc.
  • International Neuroethics Society
  • International Neuropsychological Society
  • International Nuclear Services, UK

Government and politics

  • Immigration and Naturalization Service, former US agency merged into DHS
  • Institut National de la Statistique (disambiguation), statistics agencies in many Francophone countries
  • National Institute of Statistics (Romania)
  • Indian Naval Ship
  • Israeli Naval Ship

Technology

  • <code>&lt;ins&gt;...&lt;/ins&gt;</code> HTML block element indicating insertion
  • Inertial navigation system
  • Insert key marking on a computer keyboard

Other uses

  • The abbreviated plural of inches
  • International Numbering System for Food Additives, adopted by the Codex Alimentarius Commission

See also

  • IN (disambiguation)