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Dis or DIS may refer to:
Arts, entertainment and media
Fictional entities
- Dis (Divine Comedy), the fictional city in The Divine Comedy that contains the lower circles of hell; also used as alternate name for Lucifer
- Dís (Middle-earth), a female Dwarf from J. R. R. Tolkien's universe
- Dis, a layer in the Baator Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game
Film
- A Story About Love (Norwegian Dis – en historie om kjærlighet), a 1995 Norwegian film
- Dis-moi qui tuer (Tell Me Whom to Kill), a 1965 French drama film directed by Etienne Périer
Literature
- Dis, a 2006 Dutch novel by Marcel Möring, titled In A Dark Wood in English translation
- Drowned in Sound, DiS, a webzine concentrating on new music
Music
Albums
- Dis (album), a 1976 album by Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek
- Dís, a soundtrack album by Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson
Songs
- "Dis", a 2003 song on Hankou Seimeibun by The Gazette
- "dis–", the opening theme song of the anime series Infinite Ryvius, performed by Mika Arisaka
Businesses and organisations
Businesses
- Disney Interactive Studios, a worldwide American video game company
- The Walt Disney Company (NYSE stock symbol DIS), an American mass media and entertainment conglomerate
Government and military
- Defence Intelligence Staff, the intelligence component of the UK's Ministry of Defence
- Defence Industrial Strategy, a UK government policy
- Defense Investigative Service, former name of Defense Security Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of Defense
- Dipartimento delle Informazioni per la Sicurezza ("Department of Information Security"), an Italian intelligence agency
Schools
- Daegu International School, an international school in Dong-gu, Daegu, South Korea
- Danube International School, a private international school in Vienna, Austria
- Dili International School, an International School in Dili, East Timor
Other organisations
- DIS (collective), a New York City art group
People
- Vladislav Petković Dis (1880–1917), Serbian poet, part of the impressionism movement in European poetry
- Désiré Keteleer, or "Dis" Keteleer (1920–1970), Belgian professional road bicycle racer
- Adriaan van Dis (born 1946), Dutch author, with Indo (Eurasian) roots
- Leendert van Dis (born 1944), Dutch rower who competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics
Places
- DIS, IATA airport code of Dolisie Airport, in the Republic of the Congo
- Ad Dis District, a district of the Hadhramaut Governorate, Yemen
- Ad Dis, a village in eastern Yemen
- Daytona International Speedway, a race track in Daytona Beach, Florida
- Disneyland Resort station, Hong Kong, MTR Station code DIS
Religion and mythology
Science and technology
Biology
- Dis (skipper), a genus of skipper butterflies in the family Hesperiidae
- Grotella dis, a species of moth in the genus Grotella, of the family Noctuidae
Computing
- Dis, an interpreted programming language derived from Malbolge
- 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
- A "DIS" computer uses a discrete, dedicated graphics processor.
Other uses in science and technology
- Mikoyan-Gurevich DIS, Soviet long-range escort fighter
- Deep inelastic scattering, which occurs when two particles scatter and one breaks up into its constituents
Other uses
- dis-, a prefix changing the meaning of a term to its negative (as in disappear)
- Draft International Standard, a stage in standardization process used by International Organization for Standardization
See also
- Diss (disambiguation)
- Diss, a town in England
- Diss track, a song primarily intended to disrespect a person or group
- Diz Disley (1931–2010), Anglo-Canadian jazz guitarist and graphic designer
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