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The word '''"is"''' constitutes the third-person singular form of "[[to be]]", copula of the [[English language]].
===Abbreviations===
As a [[two-letter abbreviation]], "IS", "Is", or "is" may refer to:
*[[Image stabilization]], a family of techniques to reduce blur caused by lens shakes
*[[Immune system]], organic mechanisms that protect against disease
*[[Independence Square]], any of several public squares around the world
*[[Independent Soldiers]], a Canadian gang
*[[Information science]], the study of data collection, manipulation, and dissemination
*[[Information system]], an organization of data-processing persons, records, and activities
*[[Insertion sequence]], a short DNA transposable element
*Intelligent Sport, the [[Lexus IS]] compact-sized sedan made by [[Toyota]]
*[[Intelligent Systems]], a first-party videogame developer and internal team of Nintendo
*[[IntelliStar]], a computer system used to display local forecasts on The Weather Channel
*[[Intermediate school]], education between primary and secondary
*[[Internal security]], the work of keeping domestic peace by a national force
*[[International Sign]], considered a pidgin sign language
*[[International Socialists]], any of several Trotskyist political organizations
*[[Internet slang]], slang terms used on the Internet and in text and instant messages
*Interservice, between or among different branches of one nation's [[armed forces]]
*[[Intersexual]], an organism with sex characteristics neither exclusively male nor female
**''[[IS (manga)|IS]]'', a manga about intersexuals by Chiyo Rokuhana
*[[Interstate]], between states, in any of several meanings
*[[Intrinsic safety]], a protection technique for electronic equipment in explosive atmospheres
*Investment/Saving equilibrium, a curve in the Keynesian [[IS/LM]] economic model
*Iosif Stalin or [[Joseph Stalin]], General Secretary of the Soviet Union, and namesakes:
**[[IS tank]], a Soviet heavy tank in World War II
**[[Locomotive IS]], a Soviet passenger steam locomotive
*[[Isaiah]], a prophet of the Bible, and namesake:
**The [[Book of Isaiah]], a book of the Bible
*[[Island]], or isle, an isolated piece of land surrounded by water
*[[Ísland]] or Iceland (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2), a North Atlantic nation
**"[[.is]]", Iceland's top-level Internet domain
*Island Airlines (IATA reservation code), an American aviation firm merged into [[Air BC]]
*[[Íslenska]] or Icelandic (ISO 639-1 alpha-2), the language of Iceland
*[[Israel]] (NATO country code), a Middle Eastern nation
*Istrebitel Sputnikov or interceptor of satellites, a Russian [[anti-satellite weapon]]
===Words===
Other [[words]] formed from the letters "is" include:
*"is" (plural "ises"), anything factual, empirical, actual, or spatiotemporal, in [[is-ought]] philosophy
*"is", the Anglo-Saxon form of the rune [[Isaz]]
*Is or I's, plural of any of several meanings of "[[I]]", particularly:
**[[I formation]]s in American football
**Incompletes, scores used in [[academic grading in North America]]
**[[One]]s in Roman numerals
**Particular affirmative premises in [[syllogistic]] logic, the third premise form coded by a vowel
**[[Selves]] known by the pronoun "I"
*Is or [[Hīt]], an Iraqi town on the Euphrates
*Is or [[Ys]] (also Ker-Ys or Ville d'Is), a mythical city of 5th-century Brittany
*"is-" (Greek ''isos''), a [[prefix]] similar to "iso-", meaning equal, homogeneous, or uniform
*''[[I"s]]'', a manga by Masakazu Katsura with main characters Ichitaka and Iori
*<math>i\,</math>s, [[imaginary unit]]s in the complex number system
*<math>{\hat{\imath}}</math>s, [[unit vector]]s along the x-axis
===See also===
*[[E-Prime]], a modified English syntax and vocabulary lacking all forms of "to be"
*[[Klingon language]], a fictional language in the Star Trek universe lacking the verb "to be"
*[[Orang Asli]], a Malaysian people whose language lacks the verb "to be"
*[[Sioux language]]s, some of which lack the verb "to be"
*[[Lexus IS]] a performance sedan from Lexus
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