Dis, DIS or variants may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Music
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''Dis'' (album), by Jan Garbarek, 1976
* ''Dís'', a soundtrack album by
Jóhann Jóhannsson
Jóhann Gunnar Jóhannsson (; 19 September 1969 – 9 February 2018) was an Icelandic composer who wrote music for a wide array of media including theatre, dance, television, and film. His work is stylised by its blending of traditional orchest ...
, 2004
* "Dis", a song by The Gazette from the 2003 album ''
Hankou Seimeibun
is an EP released by The Gazette
The Gazette (stylized as the GazettE), formerly known as , is a Japanese visual kei Rock music, rock band, formed in Kanagawa Prefecture, Kanagawa in early 2002.''Shoxx'' Vol 106 June 2007 pg 40-45 The band is ...
''
* "dis–", music from Mika Arisaka from the anime series ''
Infinite Ryvius
is a 26 episode drama/sci-fi series produced by Sunrise.
The character and mecha designs in ''RYVIUS'' were created by Hisashi Hirai, who later went on to act as the character designer for ''Gundam SEED''.
The series is also noted for its ...
''
Other uses in arts and entertainment
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DIS (collective)
DIS is a collaborative project based in New York City. It was founded in 2010 by Lauren Boyle, Solomon Chase, Marco Roso, David Toro, Nick Scholl, Patrik Sandberg and Samuel Adrian Massey, and publishes ''DIS Magazine'', a twist on a lifestyle an ...
, a collaborative art project, and their ''DIS Magazine''
* ''
Drowned in Sound
''Drowned in Sound'', sometimes abbreviated to ''DiS'', is a UK-based music webzine financed by artist management company Silentway. Founded by editor Sean Adams, the site features reviews, news, interviews, and discussion forums.
History
'' ...
'' (DiS), a British webzine
* ''Dis – en historie om kjærlighet'', or ''
A Story About Love
''A Story About Love'' ( no, Dis – en historie om kjærlighet}) is a 1995 Norwegian romantic film directed by Aune Sand, starring Beate Halkjelsvik, Beate Charlotte Lunde, Einar Lund, Aune Sand, Siv Stubsveen and Charlotte Thiis-Evensen. The fi ...
'', a 1995 Norwegian film
* ''Dis'', translated as ''In a Dark Wood'', a 2006 Dutch novel by
Marcel Möring
Businesses and organisations
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The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney (), is an American multinational mass media and entertainment industry, entertainment conglomerate (company), conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios (Burbank), Walt Disney Stud ...
, NYSE stock symbol DIS
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Daegu International School, in South Korea
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Dili International School
Dili International School is an international English-language school situated in Dili, the capital of East Timor. Dili International School is accredited with the International Baccalaureate Organisation, the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment A ...
, in East Timor
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Dubai International School
Dubai International School (DIS) ( ar, مدرسة دبي الدولية) is an International American private school in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The school has two branches in Dubai located in Al Garhoud and Al Quoz and serves levels from Pres ...
, in the United Arab Emirates
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Dominican International School
, motto_translation =
, logo =
, established =
, type = Private international school
, religion = Catholicism
, denomination = Dominican Order
, ad ...
, in Taipei, Taiwan
Government and military
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Defence Intelligence Staff
Defence Intelligence (DI) is an organisation within the United Kingdom intelligence community which focuses on gathering and analysing military intelligence. It differs from the UK's intelligence agencies ( MI6, GCHQ and MI5) in that it is an ...
, a former British government agency
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Defence Industrial Strategy The Defence Industrial Strategy (DIS) is a United Kingdom government policy which was published as a white paper on 15 December 2005. The purpose of the DIS is stated to be to ensure that the UK armed forces are provided with the equipment they requ ...
, a British government policy
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Defense Investigative Service, a former American government agency
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Digital and Intelligence Service
The Digital and Intelligence Service (DIS) is the digital service branch of the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) responsible in providing military intelligence to the armed forces, building up the country's digital defence, and protecting the ps ...
, a service branch of the
Singapore Armed Forces
The Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) are the military services of the Republic of Singapore, responsible for protecting and defending the security interests and the sovereignty of the country. A military component of the Ministry of Defence (MINDE ...
* (Department of Information Security), an Italian intelligence agency
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Mikoyan-Gurevich DIS
The Mikoyan-Gurevich DIS (russian: Дальний истребитель сопровождения/ ''Dalnij Istrebitel' Soprovozhdenya'' – "long-range escort fighter") was a prototype Soviet heavy fighter of World War II, envisioned to serve ...
, a Soviet military plane
People
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Vladislav Petković Dis (1880–1917), Serbian poet
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Désiré Keteleer
Désiré "Dis" Keteleer (13 June 1920 – 17 September 1970) was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer. Keteleer was born in Anderlecht and was professional from 1942 until 1961, winning the inaugural Tour of Romandie in 1947 and La Fl ...
(1920–1970), or "Dis" Keteleer, a Belgian cyclist
Places
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Ad Dis
Ad Dis is a village in eastern Yemen. It is located in the Hadhramaut Governorate
Hadhramaut or Hadramawt or Hadramout ( ar, حضرموت ''Ḥaḍramawt'') is a governorate of Yemen. Lying within the large historical region of Hadhramaut, i ...
, Yemen
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Ad Dis District
Ad Dis District is a district of the Hadhramaut Governorate, Yemen
Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, ...
Religion and mythology
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Dīs Pater
Dīs Pater (; ; genitive ''Dītis Patris''), otherwise known as Rex Infernus or Pluto, is a Roman god of the underworld. Dis was originally associated with fertile agricultural land and mineral wealth, and since those minerals came from undergro ...
, a Roman god of the underworld
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Dis (''Divine Comedy''), a fictional city that contains the lower circles of hell
* ''
Dís
In Norse mythology, a dís (Old Norse: , "lady", plural dísir ) is a female deity, ghost, or spirit associated with Fate who can be either benevolent or antagonistic toward mortals. Dísir may act as protective spirits of Norse clans. It ...
'', female spirit or goddess associated with fate in Norse mythology
Science and technology
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Dis virtual machine
Limbo is a programming language for writing distributed systems and is the language used to write applications for the Inferno operating system. It was designed at Bell Labs by Sean Dorward, Phil Winterbottom, and Rob Pike.
The Limbo compiler ...
, that executes Limbo code
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Draft International Standard
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO ) is an international standard development organization composed of representatives from the national standards organizations of member countries. Membership requirements are given in Ar ...
, a stage in standardization process of the International Organization for Standardization
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Distributed Interactive Simulation
Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) is an IEEE standard for conducting real-time platform-level wargaming across multiple host computers and is used worldwide, especially by military organizations but also by other agencies such as those invol ...
, a standard for conducting wargaming across multiple computers
* DIS, a system with a dedicated, ''dis''crete
graphics processing unit
A graphics processing unit (GPU) is a specialized electronic circuit designed to manipulate and alter memory to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display device. GPUs are used in embedded systems, mo ...
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Deep inelastic scattering
Deep inelastic scattering is the name given to a process used to probe the insides of hadrons (particularly the baryons, such as protons and neutrons), using electrons, muons and neutrinos. It provided the first convincing evidence of the reality ...
, a kind of scattering process in particle physics
Transportation
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Disneyland Resort station
Disneyland Resort () is a station on the Hong Kong MTR . It was built to serve the Hong Kong Disneyland Resort, and is located in Penny's Bay. History
It opened for public use on 1 August 2005, in preparation for the opening of Hong Kon ...
, Hong Kong, MTR station code DIS
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Dolisie Airport
Dolisie Airport is an airport serving the city of Dolisie, Republic of the Congo. The city was known as Loubomo until 1991.
The Dolisie non-directional beacon (Ident: LO) is located on the field.
See also
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* List of airports in the Republi ...
, Republic of the Congo, IATA airport code DIS
Other uses
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Diš (cuneiform)
Diš is a cuneiform sign represented by 𒁹 or . It has many uses in cuneiform texts, including in the ''Epic of Gilgamesh''.
Description
𒁹 is a cuneiform sign. In Unicode, it is represented by U+12079 (DISH)
Use of the vertical sign
In t ...
, with various meanings
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''Dis'' (skipper), a genus of butterflies
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Ampelodesmos mauritanicus
''Ampelodesmos'' is a genus of Mediterranean plants in the grass family, which is known by the common names stramma, Mauritania grass, rope grass, and dis(s) grass. It is classified in its own tribe Ampelodesmeae within the grass subfamily Pooid ...
, Maltese name for plant species
See also
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Diss (disambiguation)
Diss or DISS may refer to:
*Diss, Alberta, a place in Canada
* Diss, Norfolk, a market town in England, United Kingdom
**Diss railway station
**Diss Rugby Club
**Diss Town F.C.
*Diss grass, a Mediterranean grass
* Diss (music), a song whose primar ...
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Diz Disley
William Charles "Diz" Disley (27 May 1931 – 22 March 2010) was an Anglo-Canadian jazz guitarist and banjoist. He is best known for his acoustic jazz guitar playing, strongly influenced by Django Reinhardt, for his contributions to the UK trad ...
(1931–2010), Anglo-Canadian jazz guitarist and graphic designer
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