NIS

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NiS may refer to:

• Nickel sulfide NiS

Nis or NIS may refer to:

• Niš, a city in Serbia.
• Ness, Western Isles (Scottish Gaelic: Nis), a village in the Outer Hebrides islands.

In politics and government:

• Israeli new sheqel, the currency unit of Israel.
• Newly Independent State, a title used for a former Soviet republic after the fall of the USSR.
• National Intelligence Service (South Korea), South Korea's state security agency.
• National Intelligence Service (Greece), Greece's national intelligence agency.
• Norwegian Intelligence Service, Norway's military intelligence agency.
• Naval Investigative Service, the predecessor of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) as the U.S. Navy's internal law enforcement branch.
• Statistics Belgium (Dutch: Nationaal Instituut voor de Statistiek, French: Institut National de Statistique), the main government statistics office of Belgium.
• Nuclear Information Service, NIS is a not-for-profit, independent information service based in the UK, which works to promote public awareness and foster debate on nuclear disarmament and related safety and environmental issues.
• National Institute of Statistics of Cambodia, the National statistical agency of Cambodia

In computing:

• Network Information Service, also known as "Yellow Pages" (YP); a client-server directory service protocol by Sun Microsystems for managing a network.
• Norton Internet Security, computer security software developed by Symantec Corporation
• Nippon Ichi Software, a developer and publisher of video games.
• Network information system, a system to manage other networks.

NIS can also refer to:

• Naftna Industrija Srbije, an oil company in Serbia.
• National innovation system, which examines knowledge production in a firm
• N-Iodosuccinimide, a reagent used in organic synthesis and source of electrophilic iodine.
• Sodium-iodide symporter, NIS a Sodium/Iodide symporter found in the thyroid gland

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