Look up IPS, Ips, or iPS in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

IPS, ips, or iPS may refer to:

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

• Ips (beetle), a genus of bark beetle
• Induced pluripotent stem cell or iPS cells
• Intermittent photic stimulation, a neuroimaging technique
• Intraparietal sulcus, a region of the brain

Computing

• IPS panel, screen technology for liquid-crystal displays
• Image Packaging System, OpenSolaris software
• Instructions per second, a measure of a computer's processor speed
• Internet Provider Security
• Interpreter for Process Structures, used in AMSAT satellites
• International Patching System file extension, see ROM hacking
• Indoor positioning system, for wireless location indoors
• Intrusion prevention system, network security appliance

Mathematics

• Inner product space, a vector space with an additional structure called an inner product

Units of measure

• Inch per second, a unit of speed
• Inch–pound–second system of units, a system of measurement sometimes used in engineering (i.e. CAD design)
• Iron pipe size

Other uses in science and technology

• Inboard propulsion system, for watercraft by Volvo Penta
• Inclined plate settler, a type of clarifier used in water purification; See Lamella clarifier
• Interplanetary Superhighway, a collection of gravitationally determined pathways through the Solar system
• Introductory Physical Science
• IPS/UPS, an electric power transmission grid of some CIS countries
• Iron pipe size, nominal pipe size, originally based upon internal diameter of a pipe

Organizations

International

• Industrial and provident society, in the UK, Ireland, and New Zealand
• Industrial Promotion Services of the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development
• Institute of Physics Singapore
• Institute of Professional Sound
• Inter Press Service, a global news agency
• International Parliamentary Scholarship
• International Planetarium Society
• International Polarisation Scale
• International Primatological Society
• International Professional Surfers
• International Pyrotechnics Society

United States

• Ford Dorsey Program in International Policy Studies
• Indianapolis Public Schools
• Institute for Policy Studies
• Institute for the Psychological Sciences
• Invision Power Services
• I Promise School, elementary school in Akron, Ohio

Other organizations

• Identity and Passport Service, United Kingdom
• Indian Police Service
• Insectivorous Plant Society, Japan
• Institute for Palestine Studies, Lebanon
• Institute for Politics and Society, Czech Republic
• Iraqi Police Service
• Irish Prison Service
• Israel Prison Service

Other uses

• IPS Supported Employment, for people who have a severe mental illness
• Investment policy statement, stipulating how an investor's money is to be managed
• Institutional protection scheme, a mutual support arrangement in European banking
• International Parcel Service, a fictional delivery company featured on the sitcom The King of Queens

See also

• IPSS (disambiguation)

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