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

Places

Ins, Switzerland Ins (; french: Anet ) is a municipality in the Seeland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. History Ins is first mentioned in 1009 as ''Anestre''. In 1179 it was mentioned as ''Anes''. The area around Ins has been ...

, 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 and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...

, ITF and UNDP code INS

Biology

*'' Ins'', a New World genus of bee flies * INS, the gene for the insulin 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 The International Neuroethics Society (INS) is a professional organization that studies the social, legal, ethical, and policy implications of advances in neuroscience. Its mission is to encourage and inspire research and dialogue on the responsible ...

International Neuropsychological Society The International Neuropsychological Society is an international non-profit learned society dedicated to promoting research in neuropsychology. It was established in 1967 with only a few members, with its membership growing to about 5,000 by 2015. ...

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, 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 ( ro, Institutul Național de Statistică, INS) is a Romanian government agency which is responsible for collecting national statistics, in fields such as geography, the economy, demographics and society. The i ...

Naval

* Indian naval ship * Israeli naval ship prefix

Technology

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

Inertial navigation system An inertial navigation system (INS) is a navigation device that uses motion sensors (accelerometers), rotation sensors ( gyroscopes) and a computer to continuously calculate by dead reckoning the position, the orientation, and the velocity (dir ...

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, when ...

marking on a computer keyboard

Other uses

* The abbreviated plural of inches * International Numbering System for Food Additives, adopted by the Codex Alimentarius Commission