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

Isis, isis, or ISIS may also refer to:

  • ISIS, an abbreviation for an unrecognized quasi-state, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria<!--Keep to top. Both "Isis" and "ISIS" are disambiguated on this page, and "ISIS (disambiguation)" redirects here, thus ISIS is equally a primary topic.-->

Astronomy

  • Isis (lunar crater), a crater on the Moon
  • 42 Isis, an asteroid
  • Isis (Ganymede crater), a crater on Ganymede, a moon of Jupiter

Computing

  • ISIS (operating system), used on the Intel 8080 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)
  • Isis Eaglet, a character in Magical Chronicle Lyrical Nanoha Force

Music

  • Isis (band), an American post-metal band
  • Isis (horn-rock band), a 1970s all-female band
  • Isis (Australian band)
  • Ist Ist, an English post-punk band
  • Lin Que or Isis, a member of Deadly Venoms
  • Isis (Lully), a 1677 opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully
  • "Isis" (song), a song by Bob Dylan from 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, in the United Kingdom, part of the Independent Schools Council lobby group
  • 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
  • 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

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

  • 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, United Kingdom
  • Isis Bridge, across the River Thames near Oxford, United Kingdom
  • Isis River (disambiguation), several rivers
  • 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 (coral), a soft coral genus
  • ISIS (satellite), a series of Canadian satellites
  • Azanus isis, a species of butterfly
  • Hippotion isis, a species of moth
  • International Studies of Infarct Survival, a set of clinical trials
  • ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, a pulsed neutron and muon source in the United Kingdom
  • Isis, a former research reactor at CEA Saclay in France
  • Integrated Science Investigation of the Sun, 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, a list of British Royal Navy ships
  • 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
  • Mysteries of Isis, religious initiation rites performed in the Greco-Roman world
  • Is, is, or isis, an English sentence with the word "is" twice in succession
  • Tropical Storm Isis, a name formerly used for Pacific hurricanes

See also

  • Iset, a list of ancient Egyptian figures with the same name as the goddess
  • Isyss, an R&B group
  • Name changes due to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
  • Names of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant