INS or Ins or ''variant'', may refer to:

Places

* Ins, Switzerland, a municipality * Creech Air Force Base (IATA airport code INS) * Indonesia, ITF and UNDP code INS

Biology

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Ins INS or Ins or ''variant'', may refer to: Places * Ins, Switzerland, a municipality * Creech Air Force Base (IATA airport code INS) * Indonesia, ITF and UNDP code INS Biology *'' Ins'', a New World genus of bee flies * INS, the gene for the insul ...

'', a New World genus of

bee flies The Bombyliidae are a family of flies, commonly known as bee flies. Adults generally feed on nectar and pollen, some being important pollinators. Larvae are mostly parasitoids of other insects. Overview The Bombyliidae are a large family of fl ...

* 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 ''INS'' gene. It is considered to be the main anabolic hormone of the body. It regulates the metabolism o ...

precursor

Arts, entertainment, and media

Indian Newspaper Society The Indian Newspaper Society (INS; formerly ''Indian and Eastern Newspaper Society'') acts as the central organization of the Press of India, an independent body authenticating circulation figures of newspapers and periodicals in India. It pla ...

* International News Service, US, 1909–1958

Enterprises and organizations

International Necronautical Society Tom McCarthy (born 1969) is an English writer and artist. His debut novel, ''Remainder'', was published in 2005 by Metronome. McCarthy has twice been nominated for the Man Booker, and was awarded the inaugural Windham-Campbell Literature Priz ...

International Network Services Inc. International Network Services Inc. (INS) was a network architecture services provider based in Mountain View, California. Previously closely associated with Cisco, it was acquired by the former Lucent in 1999 for $3.7bn. Following the collapse of ...

* International Neuroethics Society * International Neuropsychological Society *

International Nuclear Services International Nuclear Services (INS) is a United Kingdom company involved in the management and transport of nuclear fuels. INS is based in Risley, near Warrington, and is operated by Nuclear Transport Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of th ...

, UK

Government and politics

Immigration and Naturalization Service The United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) was an agency of the U.S. Department of Labor from 1933 to 1940 and the U.S. Department of Justice from 1940 to 2003. Referred to by some as former INS and by others as legacy INS, ...

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

Naval

* Indian naval ship * Israeli naval ship prefix

Technology

* <ins>...</ins> HTML block element indicating insertion * Inertial navigation system * Insert key marking on a computer keyboard

Other uses

* The abbreviated plural of

inch Measuring tape with inches The inch (symbol: in or ″) is a unit of length in the British imperial and the United States customary systems of measurement. It is equal to yard or of a foot. Derived from the Roman uncia ("twelfth") ...

es *

International Numbering System for Food Additives The International Numbering System for Food Additives (INS) is a European-based naming system for food additives, aimed at providing a short designation of what may be a lengthy actual name."Class Names and the International Numbering System for F ...

, adopted by the Codex Alimentarius Commission