Dis
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Dis or DIS may refer to:
Organisations
- Disney Interactive Studios, a worldwide American video game company
- The Walt Disney Company (NYSE stock symbol)
- Dipartimento delle Informazioni per la Sicurezza ("Department of Information Security"), an Italian intelligence agency
Academic
- Danube International School, a private international school in Vienna, Austria
- DIS – Danish Institute for Study Abroad, an English language study abroad program located in Copenhagen, Denmark
- Dili International School, an International School in Dili, East Timor
Computing
- Dis virtual machine, the virtual machine in the Inferno operating system
- Distributed Interactive Simulation, a standard for conducting real-time platform-level wargaming across multiple host computers
- Dis, an interpreted programming language derived from Malbolge
Military
- Defence Intelligence Staff, the intelligence component of the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence
- Defence Industrial Strategy, a United Kingdom government policy
- Defense Investigative Service, an agency of the United States Department of Defense
- Mikoyan-Gurevich DIS, Soviet long-range escort fighter
Music
- Dis (album), a 1976 album by Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek
- "dis–", the opening theme song of the anime series Infinite Ryvius, performed by Mika Arisaka
- Dís, a soundtrack album by Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson
- "DIS", a song by Japanese visual band The GazettE
Places
- Abu Dis, a Palestinian town in the Jerusalem Governorate
- Ad Dis, a village in eastern Yemen
- Ad Dis District, a district of the Hadhramaut Governorate, Yemen
- Dolisie Airport (IATA airport code), in the Republic of the Congo
Religion, mythology, and fiction
- Dis (Divine Comedy), the fictional city in The Divine Comedy that contains the lower circles of hell and alternate name for Lucifer
- Dis Pater, predecessor of Pluto in Roman Mythology and ancestor of the Gauls according to Roman thought
- Pluto (deity), the ruler of the underworld in classical mythology
- Dís, a ghost, spirit or deity associated with fate in Norse mythology
- Dís (Middle-earth), a female Dwarf from J. R. R. Tolkien's universe
- Dis, a 2006 Dutch novel by Marcel Möring, titled In A Dark Wood in English translation
Science
- Dis (skipper), a genus of skipper butterflies in the family Hesperiidae
- Deep inelastic scattering, which occurs when two particles scatter and one breaks up into its constituents
- Grotella dis, a species of moth in the genus Grotella, of the family Noctuidae
People
- Adriaan van Dis (born 1946), Dutch author, with Indo (Eurasian) roots
- Dis Disley (1931–2010), Anglo-Canadian jazz guitarist and graphic designer
- Dis Keteleer (1920–1970), Belgian professional road bicycle racer
- Fríða Dís Guðmundsdóttir (born 1987), Icelandic vocalist, bassist, and flautist
- Leendert van Dis (born 1944), Dutch rower who competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Vladislav Petković Dis (1880–1917), Serbian poet, part of the impressionism movement in European poetry
Other uses
- dis-, a prefix changing the meaning of a term to its negative (as in disappear)
- Drowned in Sound, a webzine concentrating on new music
- A Story About Love (Norwegian Dis – en historie om kjærlighet), a 1995 Norwegian film
- Daytona International Speedway, a race track in Daytona Beach, Florida
- Draft International Standard, a stage in standardization process used by International Organization for Standardization
- Disneyland Resort Station (MTR Station code: DIS), on the Hong Kong MTR Disneyland Resort Line
- Dis, the second of the Nine Hells in the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game universe; see Baator
See also
- "City of Dis", a song by Brazilian thrash metal band Sepultura from their 2006 release Dante XXI
- "Chambers of Dis", a song by Florida death metal band Morbid Angel from their 1998 release Formulas Fatal to the Flesh
- "Dis oui" ("Say yes"), Belgian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1998
- "Dis rien" ("Say nothing"), Monegasque entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1962
- Dis-moi qui tuer (Tell Me Whom to Kill), a 1965 French drama film directed by Etienne Périer
- D♯ (German nomenclature), a musical note
- Abu-Dis, a CD album of remixes by Muslimgauze of other artists' material
- Diss, a town in England
- Diss track
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