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• Isa (name), a common Arabic name, and a shortened form of the Montenegrin name Isailo.
  • Jesus, translated as Isa in Arabic.
    • The Islamic view of Jesus, in particular.
• Mount Isa, Queensland, a city in northwest Queensland, Australia.
• Isa (album), a 2004 album by Enslaved.
• Isa (dance), a local variation of a Jota.

ISA is a three letter acronym that may stand for: Isa is the Arabic equivalent of Yeshua, and of the English male names Joshua and Jesus, all three coming form the same name originally. ... This article is about the republic in Serbia-Montenegro, Europe. ... This article is about Jesus of Nazareth. ... Islam holds Jesus (Arabic: ‎ `Īsā) to have been a messenger and a prophet of God. ... Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia Mount Isa is a city in North-West Queensland, Australia. ... Isa is the eighth full-length studio album by Enslaved. ... The jota is a dance known throughout Spain, most likely originating in Aragon. ... This article describes three-letter acronyms. ...

In politics:

• International Seabed Authority, an intergovernmental body based in Kingston, Jamaica established to organize and control all mineral-related activities in international seabed areas.
• International Searching Authority, a patent office performing prior art searches during the prosecution of international (patent) applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty.
• Internal Security Act, laws in Malaysia and Singapore used to quash opposition to the government.
• Ideological State Apparatus, a term used by Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser for how society reshapes the individual in its own image.

In computing: The International Seabed Authority is an intergovernmental body established to organize and control all mineral-related activities in the international seabed area beyond the limits of national jurisdiction, an area underlying most of the world’s oceans. ... The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) provides a unified procedure for filing patent applications to protect inventions internationally. ... A patent office is a governmental or intergovernmental organisation which controls the issue of patents. ... The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) provides a unified procedure for filing patent applications to protect inventions internationally. ... In the wake of World War II, a number of countries around the world introduced legislation that severely curtailed the rights of known or suspected communists. ... Louis Pierre Althusser (Pronunciation: altuË¡seʁ) (October 16, 1918 - October 23, 1990) was a Marxist philosopher. ...

• Industry Standard(s) Architecture, a now obsolescent I/O bus standard for IBM-compatible PC motherboards.
• Instruction Set Architecture, The complete specification of the interface between computer programs that have been written and the underlying computer hardware that carries out the actual work.
• Information Security Architecture, a buzzword variant for information security.
• ISA platform ("NOS"), an operating system software for Nokia mobile telephones.
• Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server, a Microsoft server product.
• Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society, formerly the Instrument Society of America, a professional organization for instrument engineers.
• Isa (computer science), a relationship between objects; for instance, an apple tree "is a" tree.

In aviation and space exploration: This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... An instruction set, or instruction set architecture (ISA), describes the aspects of a computer architecture visible to a programmer, including the native datatypes, instructions, registers, addressing modes, memory architecture, interrupt and exception handling, and external I/O (if any). ... United States Air Force INFOSEC poster. ... Nokia OS (NOS) is an informal name for the operating system in many Nokia mobile phones. ... Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server (ISA Server) is a stateful packet and application layer inspection firewall, virtual private network and web cache (both forward caching and reverse caching) server which runs on Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003. ... The Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society is a professional organization for instrument engineers that was originally known as the Instrument Society of America. ... In object-oriented programming (OOP) and both database theory and design, isa refers to a special type relationship which can exist between objects. ...

• International Standard Atmosphere, a tabulation with altitude of the standard variation of pressure, temperature, density, viscosity, temperature, etc, appropriate to mid latitudes, released by the ICAO.
• Iranian Space Agency, Iran's governmental space agency.
• Israeli Space Agency, Israel's governmental space agency.
• Italian Space Agency, Italy's governmental space agency.
• International Space Agency, a futuristic unified space agency often seen in near-future and quasi-modern science fiction

In education: The International Standard Atmosphere (ISA) is a model of the standard variation of pressure, temperature, density, and viscosity with altitude in the Earths atmosphere. ... The Iranian Space Agency (ISA) is a governmental space agency. ... Israeli Space Agency - ISA (Hebrew: סוכנות החלל הישראלית) is governmental body, that coordinates all Israeli programs of Space Research with scientific and commercial purposes. ... The Italian Space Agency (Italian: Agenzia Spaziale Italiana; ASI) was founded in 1988 to promote, co-ordinate and conduct space activities in Italy. ... The International Space Agency (ISA) is a common device in near-future and quasi-modern science fiction that usually serves as a stand in for NASA, while also representing the potential of a truly international consortium dedicated to space science and exploration. ...

• International School Amsterdam, an international school in the Netherlands.
• Independent Schools Association, a group of schools in New South Wales, Australia.
• International School of Arizona, a not-for-profit school located in Scottsdale, Arizona.

In finance: The International School of Amsterdam (founded in 1964) is a private international school| located in the town of Amstelveen. ... The Independent Schools Association is a grouping of schools primarily based in Sydney, Australia, for the purposes of sporting competition. ...

• International Standards on Auditing, professional standards for the performance of audits of financial information.
• Individual Savings Account, a financial account for investment in the UK with special tax rules.
• Israeli Securities Authority, the Israeli regulator of financial and stock market.

ISA can also refer to: International Standards on Auditing (ISA) are professional standards for the performance of financial audit of financial information. ... An Individual Savings Account (ISA) is a financial product available in the United Kingdom, designed for the purpose of investment and savings with a favourable tax status. ...

• Intelligence Support Activity, a special-forces operations unit of the U.S. Army.
• Infectious salmon anemia, a viral disease of salmon.
• Institut de Sélection Animale, a poultry breeding company based in Saint–Brieuc, France.
• International Shakespeare Association, an international academic association based in Stratford-upon-Avon, UK.
• International Sign Association, a trade-organization of sign producers.
• International Society of Arboriculture, a non-profit botanical organization.
• International Sociological Association, a non-profit organization in the fields of sociology and the social sciences.
• International Symbol of Access, an image of a stylized person in a wheelchair against a blue background, meant to designate handicap accessibility at a glance.
• Interstellar Alliance, an alliance in Babylon 5 to fight the Shadows.
• Irish Sailing Association, the governing body for sailing in Ireland.
• Independent safety assessment, a type of safety audit.

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