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Arts and entertainment


Music

* ''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'' * "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 ...
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Other uses in arts and entertainment

* DIS (collective), a collaborative art project, and their ''DIS Magazine'' * '' Drowned in Sound'' (DiS), a British webzine * ''Dis – en historie om kjærlighet'', or '' A Story About Love'', 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 *
Daegu International School Daegu International School (DIS; ko, 대구국제학교) is an international school in Dong-gu, Daegu, South Korea. It was established on August 13, 2010, and serves Kindergarten through grade 12. It is a joint venture between the City of Daegu a ...
, in South Korea * Dili International School, in East Timor * Dubai International School, in the United Arab Emirates *
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 a ...
, a former British government agency *
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 * Defense Investigative Service, a former American government agency * Digital and Intelligence Service, 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 (MIND ...
* (Department of Information Security), an Italian intelligence agency * Mikoyan-Gurevich DIS, a Soviet military plane


People

* Vladislav Petković Dis (1880–1917), Serbian poet *
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 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, and borders Saudi Arabia to th ...
, Yemen **
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, a ...


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 ** 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 compile ...
, that executes Limbo code *
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 Art ...
, a stage in standardization process of the International Organization for Standardization *
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 invo ...
, 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, m ...
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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 reali ...
, a kind of scattering process in particle physics


Transportation

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Disneyland Resort station Disneyland Resort () is a List of MTR stations, 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 o ...
, Hong Kong, MTR station code DIS * Dolisie Airport, 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 * ''Dis'' (skipper), a genus of butterflies * Ampelodesmos mauritanicus, Maltese name for plant species


See also

* * Diss (disambiguation) *
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 {{disambiguation, geo, school, given name, surname