Dis, DIS or variants may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Music

* ''Dis'' (album), by Jan Garbarek, 1976 * ''Dís'', a soundtrack album by

Jóhann Jóhannsson Jóhann Gunnar Jóhannsson (; 19 September 1969 – 9 February 2018) was an Icelandic composer who wrote music for a wide array of media including theatre, dance, television, and film. His work is stylised by its blending of traditional orchest ...

, 2004 * "Dis", a song by The Gazette from the 2003 album '' Hankou Seimeibun'' * "dis–", music from Mika Arisaka from the anime series '' Infinite Ryvius''

Other uses in arts and entertainment

DIS (collective) DIS is a collaborative project based in New York City. It was founded in 2010 by Lauren Boyle, Solomon Chase, Marco Roso, David Toro, Nick Scholl, Patrik Sandberg and Samuel Adrian Massey, and publishes ''DIS Magazine'', a twist on a lifestyle mag ...

, a collaborative art project, and their ''DIS Magazine'' * '' Drowned in Sound'' (DiS), a British webzine * ''Dis – en historie om kjærlighet'', or '' A Story About Love'', a 1995 Norwegian film * ''Dis'', translated as ''In a Dark Wood'', a 2006 Dutch novel by Marcel Möring

Businesses and organisations

The Walt Disney Company The Walt Disney Company, commonly referred to as simply Disney, is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California. Disney was founded on October 16 ...

, NYSE stock symbol DIS **

Disney Interactive Studios Disney Interactive Studios, Inc. was an American video game developer and publisher owned by The Walt Disney Company through Disney Interactive. Prior to its closure in 2016, it developed and distributed multi-platform video games and inter ...

, a defunct video game developer and publisher *

Daegu International School Daegu International School (DIS; ) is an international school in Dong-gu, Daegu, South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the southern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and ...

, in South Korea *

Dili International School Dili International School is an international English-language school situated in Dili, the capital of East Timor. Dili International School is accredited with the International Baccalaureate Organisation, the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Au ...

, in East Timor * Dubai International School, in the United Arab Emirates *

Dominican International School Dominican International School (), formerly Dominican School, is a private Catholic international school, located in Dazhi, Zhongshan District, Taipei City, Taiwan. The Sisters of the Congregation of the Religious Missionaries of St. Dominic own ...

, in Taipei, Taiwan

Government and military

Defence Intelligence Staff Defence Intelligence (DI) is an organisation within the United Kingdom intelligence community which focuses on gathering and analysing military intelligence. It differs from the UK's intelligence agencies ( MI6, GCHQ and MI5) in that it is a ...

, a former British government agency *

Defence Industrial Strategy The Defence Industrial Strategy (DIS) is a United Kingdom government policy which was published as a white paper on 15 December 2005. The purpose of the DIS is stated to be to ensure that the UK Armed Forces are provided with the equipment they req ...

, a British government policy *

Defense Investigative Service Defense or defence may refer to: Tactical, martial, and political acts or groups * Defense (military), forces primarily intended for warfare * Civil defense, the organizing of civilians to deal with emergencies or enemy attacks * Defense indust ...

, a former American government agency *

Digital and Intelligence Service The Digital and Intelligence Service (DIS) is the Cyberwarfare, digital Military branch, service branch of the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) responsible for providing military intelligence to the armed forces, Proactive cyber defence, building up ...

, a service branch of the

Singapore Armed Forces The Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) are the military of the Republic of Singapore, responsible for protecting and defending the security interests and the sovereignty of the country. A component of the Ministry of Defence (Singapore), Ministry of D ...

* (Department of Information Security), an Italian intelligence agency *

Directorate of Intelligence and Security The Directorate of Intelligence and Security (DIS) is the internal intelligence agency of Botswana founded under the Intelligence and Security Service Act which commenced in 2008. The DIS was formed to oversee matters of the counterintelligenc ...

, a Botswanan intelligence agency *

Mikoyan-Gurevich DIS The Mikoyan-Gurevich DIS (/ ''Dalnij Istrebitel' Soprovozhdenya'' – "long-range escort fighter") was a prototype Soviet heavy fighter of World War II, envisioned to serve primarily in the escort fighter role. The service designation MiG-5 was ...

, a Soviet military plane

People

Vladislav Petković Dis Vladislav Petković Dis ( sr-cyr, Владислав Петковић Дис; 10 March 1880 – 30 May 1917) was a Serbian impressionist poet. He died in 1917 on a boat on the Ionian Sea after being hit by a torpedo making him also remembered as ...

(1880–1917), Serbian poet *

Désiré Keteleer Désiré "Dis" Keteleer (13 June 1920 – 17 September 1970) was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer. Keteleer was born in Anderlecht and was professional from 1942 until 1961, winning the inaugural Tour of Romandie in 1947 and La Flèch ...

(1920–1970), or "Dis" Keteleer, a Belgian cyclist * D. I. Suchianu (1895–1985), or "D.I.S.", Romanian social scientist and film critic

Places

Ad Dis Ad-Dis ash-Sharqiyah is a village in eastern Yemen. It is located in the Hadhramaut Governorate Hadhramaut Governorate () is a governorate of Yemen. Lying within the large historical region of Hadhramaut, it is the country's largest governorat ...

, Yemen **

Ad Dis district Ad Dis district is a district of the Hadhramaut Governorate, Yemen Yemen, officially the Republic of Yemen, is a country in West Asia. Located in South Arabia, southern Arabia, it borders Saudi Arabia to Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, the no ...

Religion and mythology

Dīs Pater Dis Pater (; ; genitive ''Ditis Patris''), otherwise known as Rex Infernus or Pluto, is a Roman god of the underworld. Dis was originally associated with fertile agricultural land and mineral wealth, and since those minerals came from undergrou ...

, a Roman god of the underworld ** Dis (''Divine Comedy''), a fictional city that contains the lower circles of hell * ''

Dís In Norse mythology, a dís (Old Norse: , "lady", plural dísir ) is a female deity, ghost, or spirit associated with Fate who can be either benevolent or antagonistic toward mortals. Dísir may act as protective spirits of Norse clans. It ...

'', female spirit or goddess associated with fate in Norse mythology

Science and technology

Dis virtual machine Limbo is a programming language for writing distributed systems and is the language used to write applications for the Inferno operating system. It was designed at Bell Labs by Sean Dorward, Phil Winterbottom, and Rob Pike. The Limbo compi ...

, that executes Limbo code *

Draft International Standard 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. Mem ...

, a stage in standardization process of the International Organization for Standardization *

Distributed Interactive Simulation Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) is an IEEE standard for conducting real-time platform-level wargaming across multiple host computers and is used worldwide, especially by military organizations but also by other agencies such as those inv ...

, a standard for conducting wargaming across multiple computers * DIS, a system with a dedicated, ''dis''crete

graphics processing unit A graphics processing unit (GPU) is a specialized electronic circuit designed for digital image processing and to accelerate computer graphics, being present either as a discrete video card or embedded on motherboards, mobile phones, personal ...

Deep inelastic scattering In particle physics, deep inelastic scattering is the name given to a process used to probe the insides of hadrons (particularly the baryons, such as protons and neutrons), using electrons, muons and neutrinos. It was first attempted in the 196 ...

, a kind of scattering process in particle physics

Transportation

Disneyland Resort station Disneyland Resort () is a station on the Hong Kong MTR . It was built to serve the Hong Kong Disneyland Resort and Theme Park, and is located in Penny's Bay. History The station opened for public use on 1 August 2005, in preparation for ...

, Hong Kong, MTR station code DIS *

Diss railway station Diss railway station is on the Great Eastern Main Line in the East of England, serving the market town of Diss, Norfolk. It is down the line from London Liverpool Street and is situated between to the south and to the north. It is approxima ...

, South Norfolk, England, National Rail station code DIS *

Dolisie Airport Dolisie Airport is an airport serving the city of Dolisie, Republic of the Congo. The city was known as Loubomo until 1991. The Dolisie non-directional beacon A non-directional beacon (NDB) or non-directional radio beacon is a radio beacon ...

, Republic of the Congo, IATA airport code DIS

Other uses

Diš (cuneiform) Diš is a cuneiform sign represented by 𒁹 or . It has many uses in cuneiform texts, including in the ''Epic of Gilgamesh''. Description 𒁹 is a cuneiform sign. In Unicode, it is represented by U+12079 (DISH) Use of the vertical sign In t ...

, with various meanings * ''Dis'' (skipper), a genus of butterflies *

Ampelodesmos mauritanicus ''Ampelodesmos'' is a genus of Mediterranean plants in the grass family, which is known by the common names stramma, Mauritania grass, rope grass, and dis(s) grass. It is classified in its own tribe Ampelodesmeae within the grass subfamily Pooid ...

, Maltese name for plant species * ''Dís'', the Ancient Greek term for

two 2 (two) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 1 and preceding 3. It is the smallest and the only even prime number. Because it forms the basis of a duality, it has religious and spiritual significance in many ...