Isa or ISA may refer to:

Places

Isa, Kagoshima is a city located in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. The modern city of Isa was created on November 1, 2008, from the merger of the old city of Ōkuchi, and the town of Hishikari (from Isa District). Isa District was dissolved as a result of thi ...

, Japan * Isa, Nigeria *

Isa District, Kagoshima List of Provinces of Japan > Saikaido > Satsuma Province > Isa District Japan > Kyūshū > Kagoshima Prefecture > Isa District was a district located in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. As of October 1, 2008, the district had a population of 8,9 ...

, former district in Japan *

Isa Town Isa Town ( ar, مدينة عيسى, ''Madīnat ʿĪsā'') is a middle class town located in Bahrain, in the north central part of the country. Etymology The name ''Isa'' refers to Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah, the ruler of Bahrain from 1961 to 1999 ...

, middle class town located in Bahrain * Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia * Mount Isa Airport, IATA airport code "ISA" * Isa (river), a river in Belarus

People

* Īsā, the name of

Jesus in Islam In Islam, Jesus ( ar, عِيسَى ٱبْنُ مَرْيَمَ, lit=Isa (name), Isa, son of Mary in Islam, Maryam, translit=ʿĪsā ibn Maryam) is believed to be the penultimate Prophets and messengers in Islam, prophet and messenger of God i ...

Isa (name) Isa ( ar, عِيسَى, translit=ʿĪsā) is a classical Arabic name and a translation of Jesus. The name ''Isa'' is the name used for Jesus in the Quran. However, it is not the only translation; it is most commonly associated with Jesus as depic ...

, an Arabic name corresponding to Jesus in English * Isa, stage name of Lee Chae-young, member of K-Pop group STAYC * Isa, female given name, short for Isabel or similar names beginning with Isa- such as

Isadora Isidora or Isadora is a female given name of Greek origin, derived from Ἰσίδωρος, ''Isídōros'' (a compound of Ἶσις, ''Ísis'', and δῶρον, ''dōron'': "gift of he goddessIsis"). The male equivalent is Isidore. The name sur ...

* Isa Tengblad (born 1998), Swedish singer using the mononym Isa

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

* ISA (''Days of Our Lives''), spy agency in TV series * Isa the iguana, in TV series '' Dora the Explorer'' *Interplanetary Strategic Alliance (ISA), military alliance in videogame saga '' Killzone''

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Isa'' (album), a 2004 album by Enslaved * ''Isa'' (film), a 2014 television film * Isa, a dance in

music of the Canary Islands The music of the Canary Islands reflects its cultural heritage. The islands used to be inhabited by the Guanches which are related to Berbers; they mixed with Spaniards, who live on the islands now. A variant of Jota is popular, as is Latin musi ...

Computing

Industry Standard Architecture Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) is the 16-bit internal bus of IBM PC/AT and similar computers based on the Intel 80286 and its immediate successors during the 1980s. The bus was (largely) backward compatible with the 8-bit bus of the 8 ...

, a PC computer bus standard *

Instruction set architecture In computer science, an instruction set architecture (ISA), also called computer architecture, is an abstract model of a computer. A device that executes instructions described by that ISA, such as a central processing unit (CPU), is called an ' ...

, the specification for data types, registers, instructions, etc. for a given computer hardware architecture * Is-a, a relationship between abstractions in programming * Internet Security and Acceleration, a network router, firewall, antivirus program, VPN server and web cache from Microsoft Corporation * Initialisation and Support Application, a real-time system which provides the soft functionality for the Node Support Computer of the ICL SX Node

Education

* Indian Squash Academy, Chennai, India * Independent Schools Association (Australia), mainly for sports * Independent Schools Association (UK), organisation for independent schools in the United Kingdom * Iniciativa de Salud de las Americas, Spanish name for Health Initiative of the Americas * Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London, England * Instituto Superior de Agronomia, an agronomy faculty in Lisbon, Portugal * Instituto Superior de Arte, an art school in Havana, Cuba *

International School Amsterdam The International School of Amsterdam (founded in 1964) is a private international school located in the city of Amstelveen, over away from the city centre of Amsterdam.

, the Netherlands * International School Augsburg *

International School of Aleppo International School of Aleppo (ISA) founded in 1977,
retrieved 2008-04-19 was an

International School of Athens The International School of Athens (ISA) is an independent and an International Baccalaureate (IB) School. ISA, formerly TASIS, a privately held school located in Kifissia, a suburb of Athens, Greece. Education ISA serves students from Nursery to ...

, Greece *

International School of the Americas The International School of the Americas (ISA) is a magnet school for grades 9-12 in the North East Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas in Bexar County. It is located on the Lee High School campus at 1400 Jackson-Keller Road. Admi ...

, San Antonio, Texas * International Studies Association * Islamic Saudi Academy

Finance

Income share agreement An income share agreement (or ISA) is a financial structure in which an individual or organization provides something of value (often a fixed amount of money) to a recipient who, in exchange, agrees to pay back a percentage of their income for a fix ...

, a borrowing agreement sometimes used for tuition loans in the United States * Individual savings account, class of retail investment arrangement available in the United Kingdom * International Standards on Auditing, professional standards for the auditing of financial information. * Israel Securities Authority, Israel's national securities regulator

Government

Independent Safeguarding Authority The Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) was a non-departmental public body for England, Northern Ireland and Wales, that existed until 1 December 2012, when it merged with the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) to form the Disclosure and Barring ...

, former UK child protection agency * Intelligence Services Act 1994, UK * Intelligence Support Activity, of the US Army *

Internal Security Agency The Agencja Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego (ABW), officially the Internal Security Agency (ISA) in English, is Poland's domestic counter-intelligence agency. The ABW is responsible for analyzing, reporting and preventing threats to Poland's inter ...

, secret service and counter-espionage agency in Poland * International Seabed Authority, for mineral-related activities * International Searching Authority, for patents * International Solar Alliance * Interoperability Solutions for European Public Administrations, EU *

Invention Secrecy Act The Invention Secrecy Act of 1951 (, codified at ) is a body of United States federal law designed to prevent disclosure of new inventions and technologies that, in the opinion of selected federal agencies, present a possible threat to the n ...

* Iranian Space Agency * Israel Security Agency or Shin Bet, Israel * Israel Space Agency * Israel State Archives, the national archive of Israel * Italian Space Agency

Organizations and brands

* Industry Super Australia, the peak body for Industry superannuation funds in Australia * Information Systems Associates FZE, an aviation software house *

Innovative Software Applications Sorcim was an early start-up company in Silicon Valley, founded in June 1980 by Richard Frank, Paul McQuesten, Martin Herbach, Anil Lakhwara, and Steve Jasik - all former Control Data Corporation employees working in the Language Group in Sunnyval ...

, a company taken over by Sorcim in 1982 *

International Federation of the National Standardizing Associations 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 Ar ...

* International Seabed Authority * International Socialist Alternative, an international association of Trotskyist political parties. *

International Society of Arboriculture The International Society of Arboriculture, commonly known as ISA, is an international non-profit organization headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The ISA serves the tree care industry Tree care is the application of arboricultural m ...

, a non-profit botanical organization * International Society of Automation, a non-profit professional organization for engineers, technicians, and students * International Sociological Association * International Soling Association *

International Surfing Association The International Surfing Association (ISA) is the world governing authority for surfing, SUP racing, SUP surfing, bodyboarding and all other wave riding activities. The ISA is recognized by the International Olympic Committee. After the 2022 ...

, the world governing authority for the sport of surfing * Irish Sailing Association, the governing body for sailing in Ireland * International Slackline Association

Science

* Isosaccharinic acid, a six-carbon sugar acid *

Intrinsic sympatheticomimetic activity Beta blockers, also spelled β-blockers, are a class of medications that are predominantly used to manage abnormal heart rhythms, and to protect the heart from a second heart attack after a first heart attack (secondary prevention). They are a ...

, a term used with beta blockers that are partial agonists * Infectious salmon anemia, a viral disease of salmon * International Standard Atmosphere, an atmospheric model of the Earth * International Seismological Association, former name of the ''International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior (IASPEI)''

Entomology

Isa (moth) ''Isa'' is a genus of moths Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 1 ...

, a genera of

moths Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

Other uses

* Intelligent speed adaptation, systems to automatically enforce vehicle speed limits * International Symbol of Access, blue and white wheelchair symbol * ISA Brown, type of chicken *

Ideological state apparatus "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes Towards an Investigation)" (French: "Idéologie et appareils idéologiques d'État (Notes pour une recherche)") is an essay by the French Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser. First published in 197 ...

, a theory by Louis Althusser