Isa or ISA may refer to:

Places

Isa, Amur Oblast Isa () is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, rural locality (a settlement) in Isinsky Selsoviet of Selemdzhinsky District, Amur Oblast, Russia. The population was 433 as of 2018. There are 11 streets. Geography Isa is located 294 km sout ...

, Russia *

Isa, Kagoshima file:Koriyama Hachiman Shrine Isa.JPG, 290px, Koriyama Hachiman Shrine file:RIMG0228.JPG, 290px, Kiso Falls in Isa is a Cities of Japan, city located in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 22,998 in 12567 househo ...

, Japan * Isa, Nigeria *

Isa District, Kagoshima List of Provinces of Japan > Saikaido > Satsuma Province > Isa District Japan > Kyūshū > Kagoshima Prefecture > Isa District was a district located in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. As of October 1, 2008, the district had a population of 8,9 ...

, former district in Japan *

Isa Town Isa Town (, ''Madīnat ʿĪsā'') is a middle class town located in Bahrain, in the north central part of the country. Etymology The name ''Isa'' refers to Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah, a former ruler of Bahrain, from 1961 to 1999. History Isa To ...

, middle class town located in Bahrain * Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia *

Mount Isa Airport Mount Isa Airport is an airport serving the western Queensland city of Mount Isa, Australia. It is served by a variety of scheduled regional airlines, with flights to Brisbane, Townsville and Cairns as well as several other regional centres. ...

, IATA airport code "ISA" * Isa (river), a river in Belarus

People

* Īsā, the name of

Jesus in Islam In Islam, Jesus (), referred to by the Arabic rendering of his name Isa, is believed to be the penultimate prophet and messenger of God and the Messiah being the last of the messengers sent to the Israelites () with a revelation called the (E ...

Isa (name) Isa () is a Classical Arabic name which is the name given to Jesus in the Quran and other Islamic texts. The name Eesa (إيساء) or Isa in Arabic can also be interpreted as meaning “Yahweh is salvation” or “Yahweh’s gift”. It is de ...

, an Arabic name corresponding to Jesus in English * Isa, stage name of Lee Chae-young, member of K-Pop group

STAYC STAYC (; , acronym for Star to a Young Culture) is a South Korean girl group formed by High Up Entertainment. The group is composed of six members: Sumin, Park Si-eun (entertainer), Sieun, Isa, Seeun, Yoon, and J. Mainly produced by K-pop duo ...

* Isa, female given name, short for

Isabel Isabel is a female name of Iberian origin. Isabelle is a name that is similar, but it is of French origin. It originates as the medieval Spanish form of ''Elizabeth (given name), Elisabeth'' (ultimately Hebrew ''Elisheba''). Arising in the 12th c ...

or similar names beginning with Isa- such as

Isadora Isidora or Isadora is a female given name of Greek origin, derived from Ἰσίδωρος, ''Isídōros'' (a compound of Ἶσις, ''Ísis'', and δῶρον, ''dōron'': "gift of he goddessIsis"). The male equivalent is Isidore. The name surviv ...

Isa Maud Ilsen Isa Maud Armstrong Stickney Ilsen Patterson (November 27, 1868 – July 4, 1937)Ilsen's 1937 Illinois death record (as Isa Maud Patterson) gives her birthdate as November 27, 1870. However, her second husband's passport application in 1908 gave h ...

(1868–1937), Canadian-American music therapist, nurse, lecturer * Isa Tengblad (born 1998), Swedish singer using the mononym Isa * Juan Isa (1913–1993), president of the International Baseball Federation (FIBA) from 1969 to 1975

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

* ISA (''Days of Our Lives''), spy agency in TV series * Isa the iguana, in TV series ''

Dora the Explorer ''Dora the Explorer'' is an American media franchise centered on an eponymous animated interactive fourth wall children's television series created by Chris Gifford, Valerie Walsh Valdes, and Eric Weiner, and produced by Nickelodeon Animation ...

'' *Interplanetary Strategic Alliance (ISA), military alliance in videogame saga ''

Killzone ''Killzone'' is a series of first-person shooter video games for Sony Interactive Entertainment's (SIE) video game consoles. The main series and the PlayStation Portable (PSP) installment were developed by Guerrilla Games, a subsidiary of SIE ...

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Isa'' (Enslaved album), 2004 * Isa (Zaz album), 2021 * ''Isa'' (film), a 2014 television film * Isa, a dance in

music of the Canary Islands The music of the Canary Islands reflects its cultural heritage. The islands used to be inhabited by the Guanches which are related to Berbers; they mixed with Spaniards, who live on the islands now. A variant of Jota is popular, as is Latin mus ...

Computing

Industry Standard Architecture Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) is the 16-bit internal bus (computing), bus of IBM PC/AT and similar computers based on the Intel 80286 and its immediate successors during the 1980s. The bus was (largely) backward compatible with the 8-bi ...

, a PC computer bus standard *

Instruction set architecture In computer science, an instruction set architecture (ISA) is an abstract model that generally defines how software controls the CPU in a computer or a family of computers. A device or program that executes instructions described by that ISA, ...

, the specification for data types, registers, instructions, etc. for a given computer hardware architecture *

Is-a In knowledge representation, ontology components and ontology engineering, including for object-oriented programming and design, is-a (also written as is_a or is a) is a subsumptive relationship between abstractions (e.g., types, classes), wh ...

, a relationship between abstractions in programming *

Internet Security and Acceleration Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (Forefront TMG), formerly known as Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server (ISA Server), is a discontinued network router, firewall, antivirus program, VPN server and web cache from M ...

, a network router, firewall, antivirus program, VPN server and web cache from Microsoft Corporation

Education

Indian Squash Academy Indian Squash Academy (also known as ICL-TNSRA Squash Academy) is a squash training facility established by the Squash Racquets Federation of India (SRFI) in Chennai, India. The India Cements The India Cements Limited is a cement manufactu ...

, Chennai, India *

Independent Schools Association (Australia) The Independent Sporting Association (ISA) is a grouping of independent schools in New South Wales, Australia, generally within of the Sydney central business district, that are associated for the purposes of sporting competitions. Members of t ...

, mainly for sports *

Independent Schools Association (UK) The Independent Schools Association (ISA) is the registered charity that represents the Heads of 660 of the UK’s independent schools. Founded in 1878, ISA is one of the oldest of the organisations for the heads of independent schools. The ...

, organisation for independent schools in the

United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of European mainland, the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotlan ...

* Iniciativa de Salud de las Americas, Spanish name for Health Initiative of the Americas * Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London, England * Instituto Superior de Agronomia, an agronomy faculty in Lisbon, Portugal *

Instituto Superior de Arte The University of Arts of Cuba / Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) was established on 1 September 1976, by the Cuban government as a school for the arts. Its original structure had three schools: Music, Visual Arts, and Performing Arts. History T ...

, an art school in Havana, Cuba * International School Amsterdam, the Netherlands * International School Augsburg * International School of Aleppo, Syria * International School of Athens, Greece * International School of the Americas, San Antonio, Texas *

International Studies Association The International Studies Association (ISA) is a US-based professional association for scholars and practitioners in the field of International relations, international studies. Founded in 1959, ISA has been headquartered at the University of Con ...

Islamic Saudi Academy The Islamic Saudi Academy of Washington () was an International Baccalaureate (IB) World University-preparatory school, university preparatory school in Northern Virginia, accredited with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and au ...

Finance

Income share agreement An income share agreement (or ISA) is a financial structure in which an individual or organization provides something of value (often a fixed amount of money) to a recipient who, in exchange, agrees to pay back a percentage of their income for a fi ...

, a borrowing agreement sometimes used for tuition loans in the United States * Individual savings account, class of retail investment arrangement available in the United Kingdom *

International Standards on Auditing International Standards on Auditing (ISA) are professional standards for the auditing of financial information. These standards are issued by the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB). According to Olung M (CAO - L), ISA g ...

, professional standards for the auditing of financial information. *

Israel Securities Authority The Israel Securities Authority (ISA) (Hebrew: רשות ניירות ערך) is the national securities regulator of Israel. Established by law in 1968, the Israel Securities Authority sees its mandate as a way to ensure an efficient capital mar ...

, Israel's national securities regulator

Companies

* Interconexion Electrica, a Colombian company operating energy transmission lines

Government

Independent Safeguarding Authority The Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) was a non-departmental public body for England, Northern Ireland and Wales, that existed until 1 December 2012, when it merged with the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) to form the Disclosure and Barrin ...

, former UK child protection agency * Intelligence Services Act 1994, UK *

Intelligence Support Activity The Intelligence Support Activity (ISA), also known at various times as Mission Support Activity (MSA), Office of Military Support (OMS), Field Operations Group (FOG), Studies and Analysis Activity (SAA), Tactical Concept Activity, Tactical Sup ...

, of the US Army * Internal Security Agency, secret service and counter-espionage agency in Poland *

International Seabed Authority The International Seabed Authority (ISA; ) is a Kingston, Jamaica-based intergovernmental body of 167 member states and the European Union. It was established under the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and its 1994 Agreement o ...

, for mineral-related activities * International Searching Authority, for patents *

International Solar Alliance The International Solar Alliance (ISA) is an alliance of more than 120 signatory countries, most being sunshine countries, which lie either completely or partly between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. The primary objective ...

Interoperability Solutions for European Public Administrations All European countries show eGovernment initiatives, mainly related to the improvement of governance at the national level. Significant eGovernment activities also take place at the European Commission level as well. There is an extensive list ...

, EU * Invention Secrecy Act of the United States Congress *

Iranian Space Agency The Iranian Space Agency (ISA, Persian language, Persian: ''Sāzmān-e Fazāi-ye Irān'') is Iran's Government of Iran, governmental space agency. The Iranian Space Research Center and Iranian Space Agency are the main organizations carrying ...

Israel Security Agency Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ...

or Shin Bet, Israel *

Israel Space Agency The Israel Space Agency (ISA; , ''Sokhnut heKhalal haYisraelit'') is a governmental body, a part of Israel's Ministry of Science and Technology, that coordinates all Israeli space research programs with scientific and commercial goals. The ag ...

Israel State Archives Israel State Archives (ISA; ''Arkhiyon Medinat Yisra'el'') is the national archive of Israel, located in Jerusalem. The archive houses some 400 million documents, maps, stamps, audio tapes, video clips, photographs and special publications. His ...

, the national archive of Israel *

Italian Space Agency The Italian Space Agency (; ASI) is a government agency established in 1988 to fund, regulate and coordinate space exploration activities in Italy. The agency cooperates with numerous national and international entities who are active in aerospac ...

Organizations and brands

* Industry Super Australia, the peak body for

industry superannuation fund An industry superannuation fund (or, simply, 'industry fund') are Australian superannuation funds that historically were established by Australian trade unions to manage retirement savings for workers in their industry. Funds other than industry ...

s in Australia * Innovative Software Applications, a company taken over by Sorcim in 1982 * International Federation of the National Standardizing Associations *

International Socialist Alternative International Socialist Alternative (ISA) is an international association of Trotskyist political parties. ISA was founded by sections on one side of a split in the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI). History In 2018 and 2019, a di ...

, an international association of Trotskyist political parties. *

International Society of Arboriculture The International Society of Arboriculture, commonly known as ISA, is an international non-profit organization headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The ISA serves the tree care industry as a paid membership association and a credent ...

, a non-profit botanical organization *

International Society of Automation The International Society of Automation (ISA) Is a non-profit technical society for engineers, technicians, businesspeople, educators and students, who work, study or are interested in automation and pursuits related to it, such as instrumentatio ...

, a non-profit professional organization for engineers, technicians, and students *

International Sociological Association The International Sociological Association (ISA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to scientific purposes in the field of sociology and social sciences. It is an international sociological body, gathering both individuals and national sociol ...

International Soling Association The International Soling Association (ISA) is the sports governing body, governing body for the Soling class, recognised as an international class by World Sailing. The International Soling Association was founded as soon as the Soling became an ...

International Surfing Association The International Surfing Association (ISA) is the world governing authority for surfing, SUP racing, SUP surfing, para surfing, bodyboarding and all other wave riding activities. The ISA is recognized by the International Olympic Committee. ...

, the world governing authority for the sport of surfing * Irish Sailing Association, the governing body for sailing in Ireland * International Slackline Association

Science

* Isosaccharinic acid, a six-carbon sugar acid *

Intrinsic sympatheticomimetic activity Beta blockers, also spelled β-blockers, are a class of medications that are predominantly used to manage abnormal heart rhythms (arrhythmia), and to protect the heart from a second heart attack after a first heart attack (secondary prevention). ...

, a term used with beta blockers that are partial agonists * Infectious salmon anemia, a viral disease of salmon *

International Standard Atmosphere The International Standard Atmosphere (ISA) is a static atmospheric model of how the pressure, temperature, density, and viscosity of the Earth's atmosphere change over a wide range of altitudes or elevations. It has been established to provide ...

, an atmospheric model of the Earth * International Seismological Association, former name of the ''International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior (IASPEI)''

Entomology

* Isa (moth), a genera of

moths Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (suborder Rhopalocera) a ...

Other uses

Intelligent speed adaptation Intelligent speed assistance (ISA), or intelligent speed adaptation, also known as ''alerting'', and ''intelligent authority'', is any system that ensures that vehicle speed does not exceed a safe or legally enforced speed. In case of potentia ...

, systems to automatically enforce vehicle speed limits * International Symbol of Access, blue and white wheelchair symbol * ISA Brown, type of chicken *

Ideological state apparatus "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes Towards an Investigation)" ( French: "Idéologie et appareils idéologiques d'État (Notes pour une recherche)") is an essay by the French Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser. First published in ...

, a theory by Louis Althusser