Psi, PSI or Ψ may refer to:

Alphabetic letters

Psi (Greek) Psi (uppercase , lowercase ; ''psi'' ) is the 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet and is associated with a numeric value of 700. In both Classical and Modern Greek, the letter indicates the combination (as in English word " lapse"). For ...

(Ψ, ψ), the 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet *

Psi (Cyrillic) Psi (Ѱ, ѱ; italics: ) is a letter in the early Cyrillic alphabet, derived from the Greek letter psi (Ψ, ψ). It represents the sound /ps/, as in English ''naps''. According to the school rules developed in the 16th and the 17th centuries, such ...

(Ѱ, ѱ), letter of the early Cyrillic alphabet, adopted from Greek

Arts and entertainment

* "Psi" as an abbreviation for

psionics In American science fiction of the 1950s and 1960s, psionics was a proposed discipline that applied principles of engineering (especially electronics) to the study (and employment) of paranormal or psychic phenomena, such as telepathy and psychok ...

Comics

Psi (comics) Psi is a DC character created by Paul Kupperberg and Carmine Infantino for ''The Daring New Adventures of Supergirl'' #1 (November 1982). Fictional character biography Pre-Crisis Her real name is Gayle Marsh. At the age of twelve, she developed p ...

, DC Comics character * Psi Division, division in the '' Judge Dredd'' and ''2000 AD'' series of comics * ''

Psi-Force ''Psi-Force'' was a comic book series created by Archie Goodwin and Walt Simonson and published by Marvel Comics under their New Universe imprint from 1986 to 1989. It ran for 32 issues and an Annual (October 1987). It concerned a group of adol ...

'', comic series *

Psi-Hawk ''Psi-Force'' was a comic book series created by Archie Goodwin and Walt Simonson and published by Marvel Comics under their New Universe imprint from 1986 to 1989. It ran for 32 issues and an Annual (October 1987). It concerned a group of adole ...

, comic character * '' Psi Lords'', comic series

Music

* ''PSI'' (album), album by Pitchshifter (2002) *

Psi Com Psi Com was an American post-punk band of the early 1980s, consisting of Perry Farrell (vocals), Aaron Sherer (drums and percussion), Vince Duran (guitar) and Kelly Wheeler (bass). Prominent in the underground Los Angeles music scene, the group ...

, 1980s rock band * Psi Power, song by rock group Hawkwind (1978) *

PSI Records Pitchshifter are an English industrial rock band from Nottingham, formed in 1989. The band was started by lead guitarist and programmer Johnny A. Carter, and bassist and vocalist Mark Clayden. The band’s early material was characterized for ...

, music record label * Ψ

CMX DVD CMX, originally Cloaca Maxima, is a Finnish rock band. They originally played hardcore punk, but soon expanded to play a wide variety of rock formats, including progressive rock, heavy metal, and mainstream rock 'n' roll. Throughout their caree ...

, Finnish language video album by the band CMX * ''Pitch Shifter Industries'', acronym used by the British band Pitchshifter * Logo used by the band

Twenty One Pilots Twenty One Pilots (stylized in Letter case, all lowercase or as twenty øne piløts) are an American musical duo from Columbus, Ohio. Initially a band, the group was formed in 2009 by lead vocalist Tyler Joseph along with Nick Thomas and Chris ...

during their ''

Scaled and Icy ''Scaled and Icy'' is the sixth studio album by American musical duo Twenty One Pilots. The album was released on May 21, 2021, through Fueled by Ramen and Elektra. The album's title is a play on "scaled back and isolated", a phrase frontman Tyl ...

'' (2021) album era

Other uses in arts and entertainment

* ''Psi'' (TV series), Brazil *

Psi Corps The list of ''Babylon 5'' characters contains characters from the entire ''Babylon 5'' universe. The Babylon station was conceived as a political and cultural meeting place. As such, one of the show's many themes is the cultural and social intera ...

, in the ''Babylon 5'' fictional universe * '' Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal'', Canadian television series * '' Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy'', 2004 video game

Organizations

Government and politics

Italian Socialist Party The Italian Socialist Party (, PSI) was a socialist and later social-democratic political party in Italy, whose history stretched for longer than a century, making it one of the longest-living parties of the country. Founded in Genoa in 1892, ...

(''Partito Socialista Italiano''), socialist and later social-democratic political party in Italy *

Italian Socialist Party (2007) The Italian Socialist Party ( it, Partito Socialista Italiano, PSI) is a social-democratic political party in Italy. The party was founded in 2007–2008 by the merger of the following social-democratic parties and groups: Enrico Boselli's Italian ...

, social-democratic political party in Italy * Indonesian Solidarity Party (''Partai Solidaritas Indonesia'') *

Indonesian Socialist Party The Socialist Party of Indonesia ( id, Partai Sosialis Indonesia) was a political party in Indonesia from 1948 until 1960, when it was banned by President Sukarno. Origins In December 1945 Amir Sjarifoeddin's Socialist Party of Indonesia (Pars ...

(''Partai Sosialis Indonesia'') *

Proliferation Security Initiative The Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) is a global effort that aims to stop trafficking of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), their delivery systems, and related materials to and from states and non-state actors of proliferation concern. L ...

, against weapons technology transfer * ''Public Sector Information'', as in: ** The 2003 EU Directive on the re-use of public sector information ** The UK

Office of Public Sector Information The Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) is the body responsible for the operation of His Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO) and of other public information services of the United Kingdom. The OPSI is part of the National Archives of the Un ...

(OPSI), formerly HMSO *

United States Senate Homeland Security Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations The Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI), stood up in March 1941 as the "Truman Committee," is the oldest subcommittee of the United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (formerly the Committee on Governme ...

Other organizations

* Paul Scherrer Institute, research institute in Villigen, Switzerland * Pechersk School International, Kyiv, Ukraine *

Physics Society of Iran The Physical Society of Iran (PSI) (انجمن فيزيک ايران) is Iran's professional and academic society of physicists. PSI is a non-profit organization aimed at establishing and strengthening scientific contacts between physicists and aca ...

Planetary Science Institute The Planetary Science Institute (PSI) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit research institute based in Tucson, Arizona, focusing on planetary science. , its director is Dr. Mark V. Sykes. PSI, along with Space Science Institute (SSI) Southwest Researc ...

, Tucson, Arizona, US *

Poetry Slam, Inc. Poetry Slam, Inc. (PSI) is a non-profit organization that runs three poetry slams: the National Poetry Slam (NPS), the Individual World Poetry Slam (iWPS), and the Women of the World Poetry Slam (WoWps). Poetry Slam, Inc. was established in 1997 ...

, promoting poetry *

Policy Studies Institute The Policy Studies Institute (PSI) is a British think-tank and research institute. PSI began in 1931 as Political and Economic Planning and became the Policy Studies Institute in 1978 on its merger with the Centre for Studies in Social Policy (est ...

, UK research organization *

Population Services International Population Services International (PSI) is a 501(c)(3) registered nonprofit global health organization with programs targeting malaria, child survival, HIV, and reproductive health. PSI provides products, clinical services and behavior chan ...

, global health organization * Professional Skills Institute, technical school in Maumee, Ohio, US *

Prudential Securities Incorporated Prudential Securities, also formerly known as Prudential Securities Incorporated (PSI), was the financial services arm of the insurer, Prudential Financial. In 2003, Prudential Securities was merged into Wachovia Securities, a division of Wachovi ...

, financial services company *

PSI Seminars PSI Seminars is a private company that offers large-group awareness training (LGAT) seminars for professional and personal development. Programs are held in many locations in the U.S., Canada, Japan and worldwide. There are PSI Seminars offices i ...

, on awareness training * Public Services International, trades unions federation * Statisticians in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Parapsychology

* Psi (parapsychology), psychic or paranormal phenomena *

Psi hit ''Psi hit'' and ''psi miss'' are terms used in discussion of parapsychological experimentation to describe the success or failure of the subject in achieving the desired result more often than could be expected through chance alone.

, parapsychological experimentation term *

Paranormal Site Investigators United Kingdom charity Paranormal Site Investigators (PSI) is dedicated to advancing education, research and heritage in the area of anomalous experience. The charity has a membership of around 1400. The charity patron is Peter Underwood. PSI p ...

, in the UK

Science, technology, and mathematics

Biology and medicine

PSI (prion) A fungal prion is a prion that infects fungal hosts. Fungal prions are naturally occurring proteins that can switch between multiple, structurally distinct conformations, at least one of which is self-propagating and transmissible to other prions ...

, infectious protein in yeast * Pandemic severity index, former US CDC influenza scale * Photosystem I, protein complex involved in photosynthesis *

Pneumonia severity index The pneumonia severity index (PSI) or PORT Score is a clinical prediction rule that medical practitioners can use to calculate the probability of morbidity and mortality among patients with community acquired pneumonia. The PSI/PORT score is often ...

Protein Structure Initiative The Protein Structure Initiative (PSI) was a USA based project that aimed at accelerating discovery in structural genomics and contribute to understanding biological function. Funded by the U.S. National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS ...

, of the U.S. NIGMS

Computing

Psi (instant messaging client) Psi is a free instant messaging client for the XMPP protocol (including such services as Google Talk) which uses the Qt toolkit. It runs on Linux (and other Unix-like operating systems), Windows, macOS and OS/2 tp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/qtapps/ ...

, XMPP client program *

Potentially Shippable Increment Scrum is a framework for project management with an initial emphasis on software development, although it has been used in other fields including research, sales, marketing and High tech, advanced technologies. It is designed for teams of ten o ...

, in the Scrum software development methodology * Program-specific information, part of the MPEG transport stream protocol

Economics

* PSI-20, Lisbon, Portugal stock market index *

Private sector involvement In the context of sovereign debt crisis, private sector involvement (PSI) refers, broadly speaking, to the contributions or efforts of private sector creditors to the crisis resolution process, and, specifically, means that the private sector sh ...

, in sovereign debt crisis resolution

Engineering

* "Yaw" angle, one of the

Euler angles The Euler angles are three angles introduced by Leonhard Euler to describe the Orientation (geometry), orientation of a rigid body with respect to a fixed coordinate system.Novi Commentarii academiae scientiarum Petropolitanae 20, 1776, pp. 189� ...

, denoted ψ in aerospace engineering *

Present serviceability index The present serviceability index (PSI) is a pavement performance measure. Introduced by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), the PSI is one of the most widely used pavement performance indicators after pa ...

, a pavement performance indicator introduced by AASHTO

Geography

Psi Islands Psi Islands is a group of small islands which lie close to the west side of Lambda Island in the Melchior Islands, Palmer Archipelago. The name, derived from the 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet, appears to have been first used on a 1946 Argent ...

, in the Melchior Islands, Antarctica

Mathematics

Chebyshev function In mathematics, the Chebyshev function is either a scalarising function (Tchebycheff function) or one of two related functions. The first Chebyshev function or is given by :\vartheta(x)=\sum_ \ln p where \ln denotes the natural logarithm, w ...

Dedekind psi function In number theory, the Dedekind psi function is the multiplicative function on the positive integers defined by : \psi(n) = n \prod_\left(1+\frac\right), where the product is taken over all primes p dividing n. (By convention, \psi(1), which is t ...

* Digamma function * Polygamma functions * Stream function, in two-dimensional flows * Polar tangential angle of a curve * Probability of ultimate ruin, in

ruin theory In actuarial science and applied probability, ruin theory (sometimes risk theory or collective risk theory) uses mathematical models to describe an insurer's vulnerability to insolvency/ruin. In such models key quantities of interest are the prob ...

* Supergolden ratio *

Reciprocal Fibonacci constant The reciprocal Fibonacci constant, or ψ, is defined as the sum of the reciprocals of the Fibonacci numbers: :\psi = \sum_^ \frac = \frac + \frac + \frac + \frac + \frac + \frac + \frac + \frac + \cdots. The ratio of successive terms in this su ...

* Population Stability Index ( Kullback–Leibler divergence#Symmetrised divergence)

Physics and chemistry

Pound per square inch The pound per square inch or, more accurately, pound-force per square inch (symbol: lbf/in2; abbreviation: psi) is a unit of pressure or of stress based on avoirdupois units. It is the pressure resulting from a force of one pound-force applied t ...

, unit of pressure *

PSI (computational chemistry) Psi is an ab initio computational chemistry package originally written by the research group of Henry F. Schaefer, III (University of Georgia). Utilizing Psi, one can perform a calculation on a molecular system with various kinds of methods such ...

, software * J/psi meson, subatomic particle *

Porous silicon Porous silicon (abbreviated as "PS" or "pSi") is a form of the chemical element silicon that has introduced nanopores in its microstructure, rendering a large surface to volume ratio in the order of 500 m2/cm3. History Porous silicon was disco ...

Water potential Water potential is the potential energy of water per unit volume relative to pure water in reference conditions. Water potential quantifies the tendency of water to move from one area to another due to osmosis, gravity, mechanical pressure and mat ...

, denoted Ψ, in physical chemistry, the potential energy of a water solution relative to pure water * Wave function, denoted ψ, in quantum mechanics

Psychology

Psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries betwe ...

or psychologist, denoted Ψ, used in the logo of various psychological associations * Psi Chi, the National Honor Society in psychology *

Psi-theory Psi-theory, developed by Dietrich Dörner at the University of Bamberg, is a systemic psychological theory covering human action regulation, intention selection and emotion.Dörner, D., Bartl, C., Detje, F., Gerdes, J., Halcour, D., Schaub, H., ...

, theory about the human mind, a cognitive architecture *

Psychiatric Solutions, Inc. Psychiatric Solutions, Inc. was an operator of psychiatric facilities in the United States. They were bought out by Universal Health Services. Joey Jacobs and Bryce DeHaven, former executives of Hospital Corporation of America for over 20 years, ...

, corporation that owns psychiatric hospitals

Other uses

Parasocial interaction Parasocial interaction (PSI) refers to a kind of psychological relationship experienced by an audience in their mediated encounters with performers in the mass media, particularly on television and on online platforms. Viewers or listeners com ...

, non-reciprocal interactions, as between a fanbase and a performer * Permanent staff instructor, in the British Army *

Personalized System of Instruction The Keller Plan, also called the Personalized System of Instruction (PSI), was developed by Fred S. Keller with J. Gilmour Sherman, Carolina Bori, and Rodolpho Azzi in the middle 1960s as an innovative method of instruction for the then-new U ...

Pollutant Standards Index The Pollutant Standards Index (PSI) is a type of air quality index, which is a number used to indicate the level of pollutants in air. Initially PSI was based on five air pollutants, but since 1 April 2014 it has also included fine particulat ...

, air pollution measure * Pre-shipment inspection, method of quality control *

Presentence investigation report A presentence investigation report (PSIR) is a legal document that presents the findings of an investigation into the "legal and social background" of a person convicted of a crime before sentencing to determine if there are extenuating circumsta ...

, investigation into the history of person convicted of a crime