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IPS, ips, or iPS may refer to:

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

Computing

Mathematics

Other uses in science and technology

  • Inboard propulsion system, for watercraft by Volvo Penta
  • 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)
  • 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

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 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

Other organizations

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
  • International Parcel Service, a fictional delivery company featured on the sitcom The King of Queens

See also

  • IPSS (disambiguation)
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