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International Organization for Standardization 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 A ...
. ISO or Iso may also refer to:


Business and finance

* Iso (supermarket), a chain of Danish supermarkets incorporated into the SuperBest chain in 2007 * Iso Omena ("Big Apple"), a shopping center in Finland *
Incentive stock option Incentive stock options (ISOs), are a type of employee stock option that can be granted only to employees and confer a U.S. tax benefit. ISOs are also sometimes referred to as statutory stock options by the IRS. ISOs have a strike price, which is ...
, a type of employee stock option * Independent Sales Organization, a company that partners with an acquiring bank to provide merchant services * Insurance Services Office, an American insurance underwriter *
Intermarket sweep order Intermarket sweep orders (ISO) is a type of stock market order that sweeps several different market centers and scoop up as many shares as possible from them all. These work against the order-protection rule under regulation NMS. For example, if ...
, a type of limit order on financial markets *
Iso (automobile) ISO Rivolta is an Italian car and motorbike manufacturer active in the motor vehicle sector since 1938. Over the years, the company has taken various names, including Isothermos, Iso Autoveicoli Spa in 1952, Iso Rivolta in 1962, Iso Motors in 1 ...
, an Italian car manufacturer


Arts and entertainment

* Isomorphic Algorithms (ISOs), a fictional race in the digital world of '' Tron: Legacy'' *
Iso (comics) Icarus Icarus (Joshua "Jay" Guthrie) is a mutant superhero. He was a member of the student body at the Xavier Institute and a member of the New Mutants training squad. Jay was the son of Thomas and Lucinda Guthrie. Thomas dies early in Jay's life ...
, a Marvel comics character


Music

* ''Iso'' (album), an album by Ismaël Lô * Iceland Symphony Orchestra * Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Indiana, US *
International Symphony Orchestra The International Symphony Orchestra of Sarnia, Ontario and Port Huron, Michigan began in 1957. The Little Orchestra Society of Sarnia and the Port Huron String Ensemble came together and formed the Orchestra. The Orchestra is a non-profit orga ...
, of Sarnia, Ontario and Port Huron, Michigan, US * ISO Records, a vanity label by British musician
David Bowie David Robert Jones (8 January 194710 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie ( ), was an English singer-songwriter and actor. A leading figure in the music industry, he is regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the ...


Organizations

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Imamia Students Organisation ) , anthem = , ideology = , religion = Shia Islam , colors = Green and red , headquarters = Al Mustafa House, Lahore, Pakistan , founded = University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore, ...
, an Islamic organization in Pakistan * Independent system operator, a North American organization that coordinates, controls and monitors the operation of the electrical power system * Internal Security Organisation, a government security agency in Uganda * International Socialist Organization, United States Trotskyist organization, active from 1976 to 2019 * International Socialist Organisation (Australia), Australian Trotskyist organization, active from 1971 to 2008 * International Socialist Organisation (Germany), German Trotskyist organisation, established in 2016 * International Socialist Organisation (New Zealand), New Zealand Trotskyist organization, founded in the early 1990s *
International Organization for Standardization 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 A ...
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List of International Organization for Standardization standards This is a list of publishedThis list generally excludes draft versions. International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standards and other deliverables.
, a list of ISO standards * (Dutch National Students Association), the Netherlands * Iran Scout Organization


People

* Mitsuo Iso (磯 光雄, Iso Mitsuo; born 1966), Japanese animator * Iso Mutsu (睦磯, Mutsu Iso; 1867–1930), British writer * , Japanese rower * Volmari Iso-Hollo (1907–1969), Finnish athlete * Iso Lero " Džamba", Yugoslav criminal


Places

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Iso-Heikkilä Iso-Heikkilä ( Finnish; ''Storheikkilä'' in Swedish) is a district of the city of Turku, in Finland. It is located to the west of the city centre, bordering on the city centre's VIII District (Port Arthur). The current () population of Iso-H ...
, a district in Turku, Finland *
Iso-Naakkima Iso-Naakkima is a lake in Southern Savonia, Finland, about 10 km south of the town of Pieksämäki. It is notable for having an eroded impact crater under the northwestern part of the lake. It is one of the oldest known, about 1200 million yea ...
, a lake in Finland * Iso-Roine, a lake in Finland


Science and technology

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ISO character set (disambiguation) ISO character set may primarily refer to: * ISO/IEC 646, list of 7-bit character sets since 1967 * ISO/IEC 8859, list of 8-bit character sets since 1987 * ISO/IEC 10646, a 32-bit character set since 1990 It may also refer to: * ISO basic Latin ...
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ISO image An optical disc image (or ISO image, from the ISO 9660 file system used with CD-ROM media) is a disk image that contains everything that would be written to an optical disc, disk sector by disc sector, including the optical disc file system. ...
, a file containing the whole contents of an optical disc * ISO base media file format, a container format for time-based multimedia files *
ISO 5800 Film speed is the measure of a photographic film's sensitivity to light, determined by sensitometry and measured on various numerical scales, the most recent being the ISO system. A closely related ISO system is used to describe the relatio ...
, a film speed system **
Digital camera ISO Film speed is the measure of a photographic film's sensitivity to light, determined by sensitometry and measured on various numerical scales, the most recent being the ISO system. A closely related ISO system is used to describe the relations ...
, light sensitivity of a digital image sensor * ISO 8601, a date format * ''ISO(n)'', the
Euclidean group In mathematics, a Euclidean group is the group of (Euclidean) isometries of a Euclidean space \mathbb^n; that is, the transformations of that space that preserve the Euclidean distance between any two points (also called Euclidean transformations ...
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Isopropyl alcohol Isopropyl alcohol (IUPAC name propan-2-ol and also called isopropanol or 2-propanol) is a colorless, flammable organic compound with a pungent alcoholic odor. As an isopropyl group linked to a hydroxyl group ( chemical formula ) it is the s ...
, the simplest secondary alcohol * Infrared Space Observatory, a space telescope active from 1995 to 1998 * International Science Olympiad, a series of science competitions for students * ''Iso'' (fish), a genus of surf sardines in the family Notocheiridae *
Isomer In chemistry, isomers are molecules or polyatomic ions with identical molecular formulae – that is, same number of atoms of each element – but distinct arrangements of atoms in space. Isomerism is existence or possibility of isomers. Is ...
, chemicals with the same chemical formula but different structures * Isorhapontigenin, a stilbenoid (chemical) *
Isotonitazene Isotonitazene is a benzimidazole derived opioid analgesic drug related to etonitazene, which has been sold as a designer drug. It has only around half the potency of etonitazene in animal studies, but it is likely even less potent in humans as w ...
, a benzimidazole-derived opioid analgesic drug, colloquially referred to as "iso" * ISO: integumentary sensory organ


Other uses

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Imperial Service Order The Imperial Service Order was established by King Edward VII in August 1902. It was awarded on retirement to the administration and clerical staff of the Civil Service throughout the British Empire for long and meritorious service. Normally a p ...
, an award in the British honours system * Isolated Power, a sabermetrics baseball statistic * Kinston Regional Jetport (IATA airport code: ISO), North Carolina, US *
Iso (American football) An Iso, short for isolation and also known as a Halfback Lead, is a simple run play in American Football which is designed to isolate the fullback on a lead block with a linebacker, giving the halfback an easy 5 yards. Meanwhile, the other lin ...
, a type of play used in American football *
ISO (dinghy) ISO is an International Sailing Federation (ISAF) class of two-person sailing dinghy with a single trapeze and an asymmetric spinnaker. The ISO was designed in 1993 by Ian Howlett and John Caig and manufactured by Reg White Limited of Brightlings ...
, a class of sailing dinghy


See also

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Isometric (disambiguation) The term ''isometric'' comes from the Greek for "having equal measurement". isometric may mean: * Cubic crystal system, also called isometric crystal system * Isometre, a rhythmic technique in music. * "Isometric (Intro)", a song by Madeon from ...
* ISOS (disambiguation) {{Disambiguation, surname Japanese-language surnames