IPS, iPS, Ips or IPs may refer to:

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

  • Ips (beetle), a genus of bark beetle
  • Induced pluripotent stem cell, or iPS cells
  • Intermittent photic stimulation, a neuroimaging technique
  • Intraparietal sulcus, a region of the brain

Computing

  • In-plane switching, a screen technology used for liquid-crystal displays
  • Image Packaging System, OpenSolaris software
  • Instructions per second, a measure of a computer's processor speed
  • Internet Provider Security
  • Interpreter for Process Structures, used in AMSAT satellites
  • International Patching System file extension, see ROM hacking
  • Indoor positioning system, for wireless location indoors
  • Intrusion prevention system, network security appliance

Units of measure

  • Inch per second, a unit of speed
  • Inch–pound–second system of units, a system of measurement sometimes used in engineering (i.e. CAD design)
  • Iron pipe size

Other uses in science and technology

  • Inboard performance system, for watercraft by Volvo Penta
  • Inclined plate settler, a type of clarifier used in water purification; See Lamella clarifier
  • International Patient Summary, a key set of personal health data to support patient care worldwide
  • Interplanetary Superhighway, a collection of gravitationally determined pathways through the Solar System
  • Introductory Physical Science
  • IPS/UPS, an electric power transmission grid of some CIS countries
  • Iron pipe size, nominal pipe size, originally based upon internal diameter of a pipe
  • Integrated Product Support, a group of norms (S-Series) maintained by ASD and AIA and A4A
  • Inverse photoemission spectroscopy, a spectroscopy technique

Organizations

International

  • Industrial and provident society, in the UK, Ireland, and New Zealand
  • Industrial Promotion Services of the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development
  • Institute of Physics Singapore<!--https://ipssingapore.org/-->
  • Institute of Professional Sound
  • Inter Press Service, a global news agency
  • International Parliamentary Scholarship
  • International Peatland Society, founded 1968 in Quebec, Canada<!--https://peatlands.org/-->
  • International Planetarium Society
  • International Polarisation Scale
  • International Primatological Society
  • International Professional Surfers
  • International Pyrotechnics Society

United States

  • Ford Dorsey Program in International Policy Studies
  • Indianapolis Public Schools
  • Institute for Policy Studies
  • Institute for the Psychological Sciences
  • Invision Power Services
  • I Promise School, elementary school in Akron, Ohio

Other organizations

  • Identity and Passport Service, United Kingdom
  • Indian Police Service
  • Insectivorous Plant Society, Japan
  • Institute for Palestine Studies, Lebanon
  • Institute for Politics and Society, Czech Republic
  • Iraqi Police Service
  • Irish Prison Service
  • Israel Prison Service

Other uses

  • Interoperable Instant Payment System, a unified payment system in Bangladesh
  • IPS Supported Employment, for people who have a severe mental illness
  • Investment policy statement, stipulating how an investor's money is to be managed
  • Institutional protection scheme, a mutual support arrangement in European banking
  • International Parcel Service, a fictional delivery company featured on the sitcom The King of Queens
  • Ipswich railway station, Suffolk, England (National Rail code: IPS)

See also

  • IPSS (disambiguation)