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International Organization for Standardization The International Organization for Standardization (ISO ; ; ) is an independent, non-governmental, international standard development organization composed of representatives from the national standards organizations of member countries. M ...

. 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 Iso Omena (Finnish language, Finnish for "Big Apple") is a shopping centre in Matinkylä, Espoo, Finland, opened on September 24, 2001. The construction of Iso Omena aimed to, as far as possible, take heed of the wishes of the population of Espoo ...

("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 An acquiring bank (also known simply as an acquirer) is a bank or financial institution that processes credit or debit card payments on behalf of a merchant. The acquirer allows merchants to accept credit card payments from card issuers such as ...

to provide merchant services. *

Insurance Services Office Insurance Services Office, Inc. (ISO), a subsidiary of Verisk Analytics, is a provider of statistical, actuarial, underwriting, and claims information and analytics; compliance and fraud identification tools; policy language; information abou ...

, an American insurance underwriter. * Intermarket sweep order, 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 (ISO's), 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 lif ...

, a Marvel comics character.

Music

* ''Iso'' (album), an album by Ismaël Lô. *

Iceland Symphony Orchestra Sinfóníuhljómsveit Íslands (Iceland Symphony Orchestra) (ISO) is an Icelandic orchestra based in Reykjavík. Its primary concert venue is the Harpa (concert hall), Harpa Concert Hall. The Iceland Symphony is an autonomous public institution u ...

Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra (ISO) is a major American orchestra based in Indianapolis, Indiana. The largest performing arts organization in Indiana, the orchestra was founded in 1930 and is based at the Hilbert Circle Theatre in downtown ...

, 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 org ...

, of Sarnia, Ontario and Port Huron, Michigan, US.

Organizations

Imamia Students Organisation Imamia Students Organization () is the Shia Islam, Shiite Muslim students' organization in Pakistan. It was founded by Ayat ullah Syed Murtaza Hussain Sadar ul Fazil, Molana Agha Ali Moosvi, Syed Safdar Hussain Najafi, Molana Safdar Hussain Naja ...

, an Islamic organization in Pakistan. *

Independent system operator A regional transmission organization (RTO) in the United States is an electric power transmission system operator (TSO) that coordinates, controls, and monitors a multi-state electric grid. The transfer of electricity between states is consider ...

, a North American organization that coordinates, controls and monitors the operation of the electrical power system. *

Internal Security Organisation The Internal Security Organisation (ISO) is the Uganda Government of Uganda, government's counter intelligence agency responsible for providing national security intelligence to Uganda's policy makers. It also engages in covert activities at the ...

, a government security agency in Uganda. *

. **

List of International Organization for Standardization standards This is a list of publishedThis list generally excludes draft versions. standards and other deliverables of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).International Socialist Organization The International Socialist Organization (ISO) was a Trotskyist group active primarily on college campuses in the United States that was founded in 1976 and dissolved in 2019. The organization held Leninist positions on imperialism and the role ...

, United States Trotskyist organization, active from 1976 to 2019. *

International Socialist Organisation (Australia) Solidarity is a Trotskyist organisation in Australia. The group is a member of the International Socialist Tendency and has branches in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra, Adelaide and Perth. The organisation was formed in 2008 from a merger ...

, Australian Trotskyist organization, active from 1971 to 2008. *

International Socialist Organisation (Germany) The International Socialist Organisation (, ISO) is a Trotskyist group in Germany. It was established on 11 December 2016 by the merger of the organizations International Socialist Left and the Revolutionary Socialist League. The group forms the s ...

, German Trotskyist organisation, established in 2016. *

International Socialist Organisation (New Zealand) The International Socialist Organisation is a Trotskyist organisation in New Zealand. The founders of the ISO in New Zealand, notably Brian Roper and Laurel Hepburn, were active in the International Socialist Organisation in Australia, a sectio ...

, New Zealand Trotskyist organization, founded in the early 1990s. * (Dutch National Students Association), the Netherlands. *

Iran Scout Organization Iran Scout Organization (Persian: سازمان پیشاهنگی ایران, ''Sazman-e Pishahengi-ye Iran'') was founded in 1925 under the rule of Reza Shah Pahlavi. Currently Iran is one of 29 countries where Scouting exists (be it embryonic o ...

People

Mitsuo Iso is a Japanese animator and director. He worked as a freelance artist through Neomedia, Studio Zaendo, and Studio Ghibli. When he participates in anime works as an animator, he sometimes uses aliases such as Mikio Odagawa and Hideo Tateda, or do ...

(磯光雄, Iso Mitsuo; born 1966), Japanese animator *

Iso Mutsu Countess , born Gertrude Ethel Passingham, was a British writer. She married a Japanese nobleman and diplomat, came with him to Japan in 1910 and lived in Kamakura until her death in 1930.The Japan TimesKamakura: Fact and Legend In 1918 she wrote ...

(睦磯, Mutsu Iso; 1867–1930), British writer * , Japanese rower *

Volmari Iso-Hollo Volmari "Vomma" Fritijof Iso-Hollo (5 January 1907 – 23 June 1969) was a Finnish runner. He competed at the 1932 and 1936 Olympics in the 3000 m steeplechase and 10000 m and won two gold, one silver and one bronze medals. Iso-Hollo was one of ...

(1907–1969), Finnish athlete * Iso Lero "

Džamba Iso Lero, known by his nickname Džamba, was a Romani Yugoslavian gangster based in Belgrade, Serbia. He was called "the Don of Dorćol". He disappeared on 23 September 1992 after having received a beating from several members of the Serb Volun ...

", Yugoslav criminal * Jean-Paul Appel, also known as Iso, leader of the UFO religion

Siderella Siderella, originally Iso-Zen, also known as Galacteus among many other names, was a French UFO religion. It was founded and led by Jean-Paul Appel, who founded the group in 1966 in Paris, France. The views of the group involved ufological and ...

Places

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- ...

, 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 Iso-Roine (also Iso Roinevesi) is medium-sized lake in the Kokemäenjoki main catchment area in the Tavastia Proper region in Finland. The lake is located in the area of the city of Hämeenlinna. It is part of a chain of lakes that begins from t ...

, a lake in Finland

Science and technology

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 al ...

ISO base media file format The ISO base media file format (ISOBMFF) is a container file format that defines a general structure for files that contain time-based multimedia data such as video and audio. It is standardized in ISO/ IEC 14496-12, a.k.a. MPEG-4 Part 12, and w ...

, 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 introduced in 1974. A closely related system, also known as IS ...

, 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 introduced in 1974. A closely related system, also known as IS ...

, light sensitivity of a digital image sensor *

ISO 8601 ISO 8601 is an international standard covering the worldwide exchange and communication of date and time-related data. It is maintained by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and was first published in 1988, with updates in ...

, 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 transformati ...

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. Isopropyl alcohol, an organic polar molecule, is miscible in water, ethanol, an ...

, the simplest secondary alcohol *

Infrared Space Observatory The Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) was a space telescope for infrared light designed and operated by the European Space Agency (ESA), in cooperation with ISAS (now part of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, JAXA) and National Aeronautics and ...

, a space telescope active from 1995 to 1998 *

International Science Olympiad The International Science Olympiads are a group of worldwide annual competitions in various areas of the formal sciences, natural sciences, and social sciences. The competitions are designed for the 4-6 best high school students from each partici ...

, 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 formula – that is, the same number of atoms of each element (chemistry), element – but distinct arrangements of atoms in space. ''Isomerism'' refers to the exi ...

, chemicals with the same chemical formula but different structures *

Isorhapontigenin Isorhapontigenin is a tetrahydroxylated stilbenoid with a methoxy group. It is an isomer of rhapontigenin and an analog of resveratrol. It is found in the Chinese herb ''Gnetum cleistostachyum'', in ''Gnetum parvifolium'' and in the seeds of the pa ...

, a stilbenoid (chemical) *

Isotonitazene Isotonitazene is a synthetic opioid analgesic drug from the nitazene class and structural homolog of 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 eve ...

, a benzimidazole-derived opioid analgesic drug, colloquially referred to as "iso" *

Optical disc 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. IS ...

(ISO image), a file containing the whole contents of an optical disc *

ISO The International Organization for Standardization (ISO ; ; ) is an independent, non-governmental, international standard development organization composed of representatives from the national standards organizations of member countries. Me ...

integumentary The integumentary system is the set of organs forming the outermost layer of an animal's body. It comprises the skin and its appendages, which act as a physical barrier between the external environment and the internal environment that it serves ...

sensory organ A sense is a biological system used by an organism for sensation, the process of gathering information about the surroundings through the detection of stimuli. Although, in some cultures, five human senses were traditionally identified as su ...

Other uses

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 pe ...

, an award in the British honours system * Isolated Power, a sabermetrics baseball statistic *

Kinston Regional Jetport Kinston Regional Jetport , also known as Stallings Field, is a public airport located three miles (5 km) northwest of the central business district of Kinston, a city in Lenoir County, North Carolina. The airport has a single runway that ...

(IATA airport code: ISO), North Carolina, US * Iso (American football), 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 * Iso ( basketball play), short for isolation