INS or Ins may refer to:

Places

Ins, Switzerland Ins (; ) is a Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the Seeland (administrative district), Seeland administrative district in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Bern (canton), Bern in Switzerland. History Ins is first mentioned i ...

, a municipality *

Creech Air Force Base Creech Air Force Base is a United States Air Force (USAF) command and control facility in Clark County, Nevada used "to engage in daily Overseas Contingency Operations …of remotely piloted aircraft systems which fly missions across the globe. ...

(IATA airport code INS) *

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean, Pacific oceans. Comprising over List of islands of Indonesia, 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, ...

, ITF and UNDP code INS * INS Park, an entertainment complex in China

Biology

*'' Ins'', a New World genus of bee flies * INS, the gene for the

insulin Insulin (, from Latin ''insula'', 'island') is a peptide hormone produced by beta cells of the pancreatic islets encoded in humans by the insulin (''INS)'' gene. It is the main Anabolism, anabolic hormone of the body. It regulates the metabol ...

precursor

Arts, entertainment, and media

* Indian Newspaper Society *

International News Service The International News Service (INS) was a U.S.-based news agency (newswire) founded by newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst in 1909.

, US, 1909–1958

Enterprises and organizations

* International Necronautical Society * International Network Services Inc. * International Neuroethics Society * International Neuropsychological Society * International Nuclear Services, UK

Government and politics

Immigration and Naturalization Service The United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) was a United States federal government agency under the United States Department of Labor from 1933 to 1940 and under the United States Department of Justice from 1940 to 2003. Refe ...

, former US agency merged into DHS * ''Institut National de la Statistique'' (disambiguation), statistics agencies in many Francophone countries *

National Institute of Statistics (Romania) The National Institute of Statistics (, INS) is a Romanian government agency which is responsible for collecting national statistics, in fields such as geography, the economy, demographics and society. The institute is also responsible for conduct ...

Naval

* Indian naval ship * Israeli naval ship prefix

Technology

* <ins>...</ins> HTML block element indicating insertion *

Inertial navigation system An inertial navigation system (INS; also inertial guidance system, inertial instrument) is a navigation device that uses motion sensors (accelerometers), rotation sensors (gyroscopes) and a computer to continuously calculate by dead reckoning th ...

Insert key The Insert key (often abbreviated Ins) is a key commonly found on computer keyboards. It is primarily used to switch between the two text-entering modes on a personal computer (PC) or word processor: * overtype mode, in which the cursor, whe ...

marking on a computer keyboard

Other uses

* The abbreviated plural of

inch The inch (symbol: in or prime (symbol), ) is a Units of measurement, unit of length in the imperial units, British Imperial and the United States customary units, United States customary System of measurement, systems of measurement. It is eq ...

es * International Numbering System for Food Additives, adopted by the Codex Alimentarius Commission