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Definition: IA

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. A state in midwestern United States.[Wordnet].

Source: WordNet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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"IA" is a common misspelling or typo for: in, it, is, if, air, aid, aim, via, ai, Ira, CIA, IQ, Ida, Mia, Isa, Dia, ICA, IgA, OA, EIA, ail, ka, iva, pia, IAS, Fia, Tia, UA, ria, Gia, Kia, IAC, IAP, Sia, Xia, IW, IAT, IAA.

Date "IA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1400. (references)

Specialty Definition: IA

Domain Definition
Computing IA Information Appliance Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Administration 1: Interagency Agreement. (references)
  2: Initial appraisal. (references)
  3: Acquisition Category. (references)
Aerospace 1: Input Axis. (references)
  2: Interface Adapter. (references)
  3: Implementation Agency. (references)
  4: Issuing Agency. (references)
  5: Inverter Assembly. (references)
Aging Iowa. (references)
Aviation Indirect Access. (references)
Business International Alphabet [CCITT]. (references)
Census (Identical Additional [position]) A position description that can be used by more than one employee. (references)
Environment 1: Instrument air. (references)
  2: Interim Action. (references)
  3: First-cycle extraction column (ICPP). (references)
Health 1: Inter/IntraAgency Agreement. (references)
  2: Information Access. (references)
Immigration Immigration Agent; or Investigative Assistant. (references)
Information Technology 1: Information Assurance (DOD). (references)
  2: Internet access. (references)
  3: Imagery Analyst. (references)
Library Science International Affairs. A monthly journal of political analysis. Moskova. (references)
Military 1: Inspection Administration. (references)
  2: 1) Implementing arrangement. 2) Information assurance. 3) Initial assessment. (references)
Religion "Immune response-associated" proteins, found on B cells and antigen-presenting cells of mice; an old term now replaced with MHC (major histocompatibility complex) class II molecules. (references)
Technology 1: International Affairs. (references)
  2: Information Assurance. (references)
  3: Integrated Agent. (references)
  4: Interoperability Agreements. (references)
  5: In Absentia. (references)
  6: Involuntary Allotment. (references)
  7: Industry Automation. (references)
Trade Import Administration. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Common Expressions: IA

Expressions Definition
Battle of Ia Drang The Battle of Ia Drang was the first major battle of the Vietnam War between the United States Army and the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN). (references)
Beretta 92G Elite IA The Beretta 92G Elite IA is a semi-automatic pistol designed and manufactured by Beretta. (references)
Beretta 96G Elite IA The Beretta 96G Elite IA is simply a Beretta 92G Elite IA chambered for .40 S&W ammunition. Its slide, barrel and magazine have been adapted to this caliber. (references)
FMA IA 58 Pucará The FMA IA 58 Pucará is a twin-engine counter-insurgency (COIN) aircraft made in Argentina, flown for the first time on August 20, 1969. It is designed to be able to operate from small front-line airfields, and is heavily armed. This aircraft is unusual because of the tandem cockpit arrangement in a twin-prop-driven military aircraft. The Pucará represents an indigenous Argentine effort to produce a cost-effective combat aircraft in the face of hyperinflation that plagued the Argentine economy for much of the 20th Century. (references)
FMA IA 63 Pampa The FMA IA 63 Pampa is an advanced trainer aircraft with combat capability, produced in Argentina by FMA with assistance from Dornier of Germany. Heavily influenced by the Dassault-Breguet/Dornier Alpha Jet design, the main difference of the Pampa lies in being a smaller aircraft with one engine instead of two, and in having straight wings instead of swept wings. (references)
IA 5 The IA 5 (IntelSat Americas 5) satellite (formerly TelStar 5) is a communications satellite in the Clarke orbit at 97 degrees west, above a point in the Pacific Ocean several hundred miles west of the Galapagos Islands. It was manufactured and continues to be operated by Loral Skynet. The satellite's main C band transponder cluster covers the United States, southern and central Canada, and northern Mexico; its main Ku band transponder cluster covers the US, Mexico, and the northern Caribbean Sea. An additional C and Ku band transponder is targeted at the Hawaiian Islands. (references)
Ia Drang Valley The Ia Drang Valley is a valley located in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. On November 14, 1965, 450 American soldiers of the 1st Air Cavalry Division were airlifted by helicopter to this valley with the intention of locating and eliminating North Vietnamese forces. These American soldiers were almost immediately surrounded by over 3,000 soldiers of the Peoples Army of Vietnam arriving in waves. American air and artillery support allowed the US forces to keep from being overwhelmed. (references)
Type Ia sensory fiber Type Ia Sensory Fiber also called Primary Afferent Type 1A Fiber is a neuron component of the peripheral sensory system which innervates the muscle spindles, a kind of specialized muscle fiber which is sensitive to muscle length. (references)

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Specialty Expressions: IA

Expressions Domain Definition
IA (land status records) Environment Indian Allotment. (references)
Ia antigen (class II histocompatibility antigen) Geology A type of antigen which is responsible for any immune reaction, or rejection, of tissue grafts attached to the body which come from a genetically dissimilar donor. (references)
Stage IA soft tissue sarcoma Health The cancer cells look very much like normal cells. The cancer is smaller than 5 centimeters in size (about 2 inches), but it has not spread to lymph nodes or other parts of the body. (references)

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: IA

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry Source Expression Field
IA Danish Intet abnormt Medicine
Ia English Interface point a N/A
IA French Institut d'automatique N/A
IA German Informationsaustausch European Union, Finance
IA Italian Intelligenza artificiale Computing
IA Portuguese Inseminação Artificial N/A
IA Spanish Inteligencia artificial Computing
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Extended Definition: IA

IA

IA or ia may mean:

  • Individual Augmentee Program that US military uses to inflate numbers of combat soldiers by assigning non-combat occupations as 'augmentees'.
  • Internal affairs (law enforcement), a division of a law enforcement agency which investigates incidents and suspicions of lawbreaking and professional misconduct attributed to officers on the force.
  • International Arbiter, a chess title awarded by the World Chess Federation
  • Intraarterial injection.
Places
  • Ia or Oia, Greece, a small town on the island of Santorini.
  • Iowa, U.S.A. (postal abbreviation).
Companies and organizations
  • Iraqi Airways (IATA airline designator).
  • Indian Airlines, a domestic air carrier in India.
  • Indian Army, part of the Military of India.
  • International Academy, a public high-school in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, U.S.A.
  • Inuit Ataqatigiit, a left-wing party in Greenland.
  • International Artists, a record label
  • Iraqi Army US military abbreviation for Iraqi Army


Language
  • Insha'Allah, Arabic word meaning "If God wills".
  • Interlingua (ISO 639 alpha-2, ia).
  • Я (ya), a letter in the cyrillic alphabet
Microprocessor designs by Intel
  • IA-4, the founding of microprocessors.
  • IA-8, microcomputer CPU of the 1970s.
  • IA-16, CISC architecture that established the x86 CPUs.
  • IA-32, CISC over RISC architecture found in 32-bit x86 CPUs.
  • IA-64, EPIC variant VLIW architecture found in Itaniums.
People
  • Saint Ia, the martyr of Persia in the 4th century a.D.
  • Saint Ia of Cornwall.
  • Swedish guitarist Mattias "IA" Eklundh.
  • ia, a VJ on MTV Japan.
Biology
Internet and information technology
  • Intelligence amplification, the process of enhancing human intelligence through the use of technology.
  • Information architecture, the practice of structuring information (knowledge or data).
  • Information assurance, dealing with trust aspects of information.
  • Internet Archive, a non-profit organization dedicated to maintaining an archive of web and multimedia resources.
Fiction
  • Irken Armada, a horde of alien invaders from the Nickelodeon TV Series Invader Zim
  • Invasion America, a TV series
  • Invasion America (board wargame)


Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "IA". Image Credit.
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Topics by Level of Interest: IA

Topics sorted by level of Interest Level (1=low, 600=high)     Topics sorted Alphabetically Level (1=low, 600=high)
Battle of Ia Drang 85     Basel IA 4
Type Ia supernova 44     Battle of Ia Drang 85
FMA IA 58 Pucará 18     DINFIA IA 35 12
FMA IA 63 Pampa 15     DINFIA IA 38 11
FMA IA 50 Guaraní II 15     DINFIA IA 45 10
DINFIA IA 35 12     FMA IA 50 Guaraní II 15
DINFIA IA 38 11     FMA IA 58 Pucará 18
DINFIA IA 45 10     FMA IA 63 Pampa 15
Type Ia sensory fiber 10     IA 5
Operation IA Feature 9     IA automorphism 2
IA 5     Ia Drang Valley 3
Ia of Cornwall 4     Ia of Cornwall 4
Basel IA 4     Operation IA Feature 9
Ia Drang Valley 3     Type Ia sensory fiber 10
IA automorphism 2     Type Ia supernova 44

Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses).

"IA" is a common misspelling or typo for: in, it, is, if, air, aid, aim, via, ai, Ira, CIA, IQ, Ida, Mia, Isa, Dia, ICA, IgA, OA, EIA, ail, ka, iva, pia, IAS, Fia, Tia, UA, ria, Gia, Kia, IAC, IAP, Sia, Xia, IW, IAT, IAA.

Synonyms: IA
Position Synonyms (sorted by strength)

Noun

 Iowa, IQ.
Consider also: intelligence, mentality, ratio.

Expression

 Hawkeye State, I Samuel, intelligence quotient.
Consider also: information appliance.
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Computed Synonyms: IA

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 Word

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   1.0180   IA     information appliance     computing equipment, data processing equipment   
Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Computed Expressions: IA

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 Intensity 

 Expression

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   1.2498   atax IA     ataxia     ataxy, lack of coordination   
 2   1.0496   atax IA     ataxy     ataxia, lack of coordination   
Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Translations: IA

Language Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Annamese đây là tiếng nói Việt-Nam phát thanh về phía Đông-Âu (this ia the Voice of Vietnam calling Eastern Europe). Additional references: Annamese, Viet Nam, China, Ia. (volunteer & more translations)
Ching đây là tiếng nói Việt-Nam phát thanh về phía Đông-Âu (this ia the Voice of Vietnam calling Eastern Europe). Additional references: Ching, Viet Nam, China, Ia. (volunteer & more translations)
Français Iowa (Ia, Iowa River, Iowa tribe, Iowas). Additional references: Français, France, Algeria, Ia. (volunteer & more translations)
French Iowa (Ia, Iowa River, Iowa tribe, Iowas). Additional references: French, France, Algeria, Ia. (volunteer & more translations)
Gin đây là tiếng nói Việt-Nam phát thanh về phía Đông-Âu (this ia the Voice of Vietnam calling Eastern Europe). Additional references: Gin, Viet Nam, China, Ia. (volunteer & more translations)
Hanguk Mal 운동 실조 (ataxia, atax IA, ataxy). Additional references: Hanguk Mal, Korea, South, Korea, Ia. (volunteer & more translations)
Hanguohua 운동 실조 (ataxia, atax IA, ataxy). Additional references: Hanguohua, Korea, South, Korea, Ia. (volunteer & more translations)
Jing đây là tiếng nói Việt-Nam phát thanh về phía Đông-Âu (this ia the Voice of Vietnam calling Eastern Europe). Additional references: Jing, Viet Nam, China, Ia. (volunteer & more translations)
Kinh đây là tiếng nói Việt-Nam phát thanh về phía Đông-Âu (this ia the Voice of Vietnam calling Eastern Europe). Additional references: Kinh, Viet Nam, China, Ia. (volunteer & more translations)
Korean 운동 실조 (ataxia, atax IA, ataxy). Additional references: Korean, Korea, South, Korea, Ia. (volunteer & more translations)
Lietuvi here (IA). Additional references: Lietuvi, Lithuania, Ia. (volunteer & more translations)
Litauische here (IA). Additional references: Litauische, Lithuania, Ia. (volunteer & more translations)
Litewski here (IA). Additional references: Litewski, Lithuania, Ia. (volunteer & more translations)
Lithuanian here (IA). Additional references: Lithuanian, Lithuania, Ia. (volunteer & more translations)
Litovskiy here (IA). Additional references: Litovskiy, Lithuania, Ia. (volunteer & more translations)
Liutuviskai here (IA). Additional references: Liutuviskai, Lithuania, Ia. (volunteer & more translations)
Viet đây là tiếng nói Việt-Nam phát thanh về phía Đông-Âu (this ia the Voice of Vietnam calling Eastern Europe). Additional references: Viet, Viet Nam, China, Ia. (volunteer & more translations)
Vietnamese đây là tiếng nói Việt-Nam phát thanh về phía Đông-Âu (this ia the Voice of Vietnam calling Eastern Europe). Additional references: Vietnamese, Viet Nam, China, Ia. (volunteer & more translations)
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Constructed Language Translations: IA

Language Translations for “Ia” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses.
Pig Latin Iaway (Ia). Additional references: Pig Latin, Ia. (volunteer)
Terran B here (IA). Additional references: Terran B, Ia. (volunteer)
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