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== Academic institutions == | == Academic institutions == |
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Dis, DIS may refer to:
Academic institutions
- Danube International School (DIS), a private international school in Vienna, Austria
- DIS – Danish Institute for Study Abroad, an English language study abroad program located in Copenhagen, Denmark
- Dili International School (DIS), an International School in Dili, Timor Leste (East Timor)
Companies
- Disney Interactive Studios, worldwide American video game company
- The Walt Disney Company (NYSE stock symbol "DIS")
Computer topics
- "Dis", an interpreted programming language derived from Malbolge
- Dis virtual machine, the virtual machine in the Inferno operating system
- Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS), a standard for conducting real-time platform-level wargaming across multiple host computers
- DIS 21047 or International Standard Text Code, unique identifier for text-based works
- DIS 29500 or Office Open XML, a zipped, XML-based file format developed by Microsoft
Games
- "Dis", the second of the Nine Hells in the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game universe (see Baator)
Military
- Defence Intelligence Staff, the intelligence component of the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence
- Defence Industrial Strategy, a United Kingdom government policy
- Defense Investigative Service, an agency of the United States Department of Defense
- Mikoyan-Gurevich DIS, Soviet long-range escort fighter
Music and film
- Dis (album), a 1976 album by Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek
- Abu-Dis, a CD album of remixes by Muslimgauze of other artists' material
- "City of Dis", a song by Brazilian thrash metal band Sepultura from their 2006 release Dante XXI
- "dis–", the opening theme song of the anime series Infinite Ryvius, performed by Mika Arisaka
- Drowned in Sound, a webzine concentrating on new music
- Dís, a soundtrack album by Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson
- "Chambers of Dis", a song by Florida death metal band Morbid Angel from their 1998 release Formulas Fatal to the Flesh
- The musical note D♯, in German nomenclature
- Dis – en historie om kjærlighet (A Story About Love in English), a 1995 Norwegian film
- "DIS", a song by Japanese visual band The GazettE
- "Dis oui" ("Say yes"), Belgian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1998
- "Dis rien" ("Say nothing"), Monegasque entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1962
- Dis-moi qui tuer (Tell Me Whom to Kill), a 1965 French drama film directed by Etienne Périer
- a diss track
People
- Adriaan van Dis (born 1946), Dutch author, with Indo (Eurasian) roots
- Dis Disley (1931–2010), Anglo-Canadian jazz guitarist and graphic designer
- Dis Keteleer (1920–1970), Belgian professional road bicycle racer
- Fríða Dís Guðmundsdóttir (born 1987), Icelandic vocalist, bassist, and flautist
- Leendert van Dis (born 1944), Dutch rower who competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Vladislav Petković Dis, Serbian poet, part of the impressionism movement in European poetry
Places
- Abu Dis, Palestinian town in the Jerusalem Governorate, bordering Jerusalem
- Ad Dis, a village in eastern Yemen
- Ad Dis District, a district of the Hadhramaut Governorate, Yemen
- Dolisie Airport, in the Republic of the Congo, which has the IATA airport code "DIS"
- Diss, a town in England
Religion, mythology, and fiction
- Dis (Divine Comedy), the fictional city in The Divine Comedy that contains the lower circles of hell and alternate name for Lucifer
- Dis, an alternative name for Satan
- Dīs, the alternative name for Pluto (mythology)
- Dis Pater, predecessor of Pluto in Roman Mythology and ancestor of the Gauls according to Roman thought
- Dís, singular of dísir, a group of goddesses in Norse mythology
- Dís (Middle-earth), a female Dwarf from J. R. R. Tolkien's universe
Science
- Dis (skipper), a genus of skipper butterflies in the family Hesperiidae
- Deep inelastic scattering, which occurs when two particles scatter and one breaks up into its constituents
- Grotella dis, a species of moth in the genus Grotella, of the family Noctuidae
Other acronyms
- Daytona International Speedway, a race track in Daytona Beach, Florida
- Dipartimento delle Informazioni per la Sicurezza, an Italian intelligence agency
- Draft International Standard, a stage in standardization process used by International Organization for Standardization
- DIS, MTR Station code for the Disneyland Resort Station on the Hong Kong MTR Disneyland Resort Line
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