IA, Ia, or ia may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

* ''Ia'', an 1892 novelette by Arthur Quiller-Couch * "Iä", a fictional word in the works of

H. P. Lovecraft Howard Phillips Lovecraft (, ; August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American writer of Weird fiction, weird, Science fiction, science, fantasy, and horror fiction. He is best known for his creation of the Cthulhu Mythos. Born in Provi ...

International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States, Its Territories and Canada, known as simply the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE or ...

(IATSE), which also goes by IA * International Artists, a record label

Businesses and organizations

* Indian Airlines, defunct airline, 1953-2011 * Indiana Academy, a high school * International Academy, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan *

Internet Archive The Internet Archive is an American 501(c)(3) organization, non-profit organization founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle that runs a digital library website, archive.org. It provides free access to collections of digitized media including web ...

, online digital library and host organization of the Wayback Machine * Iraqi Airways (IATA airline designator IA) * Impact assessment of public policy * Insurance Authority, a statutory body in Hong Kong * Aircraft model prefix of ''Fabrica Argentina de Aviones'', e.g. FMA IA 62

Government, law, and military

* Indian Army, the Indian Army * Indonesian Army, the Indonesian Army * Individual augmentee, U.S. military person temporarily assigned to a unit * Indecent assault, sexual criminal offense

Language

* Ia (cuneiform), a sign in cuneiform writing * Inter alia (i.a.), Latin meaning "among other things" *

Interlingua Interlingua (, ) is an international auxiliary language (IAL) developed between 1937 and 1951 by the American International Auxiliary Language Association (IALA). It is a constructed language of the "naturalistic" variety, whose vocabulary, ...

(ISO 639-1 code: ''ia'') *

Romanization In linguistics, romanization is the conversion of text from a different writing system to the Latin script, Roman (Latin) script, or a system for doing so. Methods of romanization include transliteration, for representing written text, and tra ...

Cyrillic The Cyrillic script ( ) is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic, Turkic, Mongolic, Uralic, Caucasian and Iranic-speaking countries in Southeastern Europe, Ea ...

'' Я'' letter * Inshallah (iA), used by English-speaking

Muslims Muslims () are people who adhere to Islam, a Monotheism, monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God ...

People

* Ia or Violet of Persia, fourth-century martyr, feast days August 4 and September 11 * Saint Ia of Cornwall * Mattias Eklundh, Swedish guitarist

Places

Iowa Iowa ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the upper Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west; Wisconsin to the northeast, Ill ...

(IA), U.S. state, postal abbreviation *

Indiana Indiana ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake Michigan to the northwest, Michigan to the north and northeast, Ohio to the east, the Ohio River and Kentucky to the s ...

(Ia), U.S. state, older traditional abbreviation * Ia or Oia, Greece, on Santorini * Iá River, a river in Brazil

Science and technology

Archaeology

* Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (IA) * '' IA, The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology'' * '' Internet Archaeology'', an electronic journal *

Industrial archaeology Industrial archaeology (IA) is the systematic study of material evidence associated with the Industry (manufacturing), industrial past. This evidence, collectively referred to as industrial heritage, includes buildings, machinery, artifacts, si ...

* Iron Age IA I, IA IIA, etc., in archaeology of Israel

Biology and medicine

* IA (chemotherapy), with Idarubicin and cytarabine * ''Ia'' (genus), of vespertilionid bats * Phase Ia of a clinical trial * Immunoassay, biochemical test to measure concentrations through antibody or antigen

Computing and electronics

* IA (software), a vocaloid (singing synthesizer) *

IA-32 IA-32 (short for "Intel Architecture, 32-bit", commonly called ''i386'') is the 32-bit version of the x86 instruction set architecture, designed by Intel and first implemented in the i386, 80386 microprocessor in 1985. IA-32 is the first incarn ...

, Intel Architecture, 32-bit * IA-64, Intel Architecture, 64-bit * Implicit authentication, by a smart device * Human intelligence amplification through technology *

Intelligent agent In artificial intelligence, an intelligent agent is an entity that Machine perception, perceives its environment, takes actions autonomously to achieve goals, and may improve its performance through machine learning or by acquiring knowledge r ...

, in artificial intelligence * Information architecture, the structural design of shared information *

Information assurance Information assurance (IA) is the practice of assuring information and managing risks related to the use, processing, storage, and data transmission, transmission of information. Information assurance includes protection of the data integrity, inte ...

, dealing with trust aspects of information

Other uses in science and technology

* Group IA (or Ia), an obsolete designation for the group 1 elements *

Type Ia supernova A Type Ia supernova (read: "type one-A") is a type of supernova that occurs in binary systems (two stars orbiting one another) in which one of the stars is a white dwarf. The other star can be anything from a giant star to an even smaller white ...

, a subtype of Type I supernova * Interactions of actors theory, by Gordon Pask

Other uses

* Internal affairs (disambiguation) * Intermediate in Arts, an academic degree *

Internal audit Internal auditing is an independent, objective assurance and consulting activity designed to add value and improve an organization's operations. It helps an organization accomplish its objectives by bringing a systematic, disciplined approach t ...

of an organization's operations * International affairs, alternative term for

International relations International relations (IR, and also referred to as international studies, international politics, or international affairs) is an academic discipline. In a broader sense, the study of IR, in addition to multilateral relations, concerns al ...

, the study of politics, economics and law on a global level * Íþróttabandalag Akraness or ÍA, an Icelandic football team * Mazda2, a 2002–present Japanese subcompact car, sold in North America as the Scion iA and Toyota Yaris iA