Dictionary - Definition of IMPS

Definition: IMPS


Part of Speech	Definition
Noun Plural	1. Plural inflection of the noun imp.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Noun Base (imp)	1. One who is playfully mischievous.[Wordnet]. 2. (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous.[Wordnet]. 3. A shoot; a scion; a bud; a slip; a graft.[Websters]. 4. An offspring; progeny; child; scion.[Websters]. 5. A young or inferior devil; a little, malignant spirit; a puny demon; a contemptible evil worker.[Websters]. 6. Something added to, or united with, another, to lengthen it out or repair it, -- as, an addition to a beehive; a feather inserted in a broken wing of a bird; a length of twisted hair in a fishing line.[Websters].
Verb Present Tense	1. Present tense conjugation of the verb imp.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Verb Base (imp)	1. To graft; to insert as a scion.[Websters]. 2. To graft with new feathers, as a wing; to splice a broken feather. Hence, Fig.: To repair; to extend; to increase; to strengthen to equip.[Websters]. 3. Base verb from the following inflections: imping, imped, imps, imper, impers, impingly and impedly.[Eve - graph theoretic]
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"Imps" is a common misspelling or typo for: MIPS, pimps, wimps, limps, gimps, dimps.

Date "Imps" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Common Expressions: IMPS

Expressions	Definition
IMPS The Relentless	I.M.P.S.: The Relentless is a fan film that made its debut on the internet in 2005, created by fans of the Star Wars franchise. I.M.P.S. (Imperial Military Personnel Stories) aims to show "the best damn job in the galaxy", that of serving on the Imperial class Star Destroyer Relentless as it goes on patrols and missions. The series is divided into chapters, with only one released to date. (references)
Planet of the Imps	Planet of the Imps is a popular sprite comic. It is a spin off of the original Doom series and it's creator is Zack Friedrich. The title is a parody of Planet of the Apes. Most of the characters are sprites from the Doom games though some are not. As of now, it has 218 episodes and the author said it would likely end at 240 or 250 but there has been no updates in the last three years. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.		Top

Abbreviations & Acronyms: IMPS

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
IMPS	English	Inpatient Multidimensional Psychiatric Scale	N/A
IMPS	French	Système de messagerie de personne à personne	Computing
IMPS	German	Impatient Multidimensional Psychiatric Scale	Medicine
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).				Top

Extended Definition: IMPS

IMPS

For the mythological beings, see Imp.

For Star Wars fan film, see IMPS The Relentless.

IMPS may also refer to "Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite", an April Fools' Day RFC.

IMPS stands for Instant Messaging and Presence Service. It is an OMA enabler for Instant Messaging and Presence. The Wireless Village consortium developed the first cut of the specifications. After Wireless Village was merged with OMA, its specs became OMA IMPS 1.0 specifications. IMPS is widely deployed but not necessarily marketed. Interworking between several operators IMPS platforms is being performed under a GSMA initiative that encourages interworking and deployment of Instant Messaging.

Vanilla terminals often have IMPS clients.

On Nokia, the chat client is accessed via the "My Presence" menu.

On Sony Ericsson, it's called "My Friends".

On Motorola, it's called "IM". The phones' chat clients are generally designed to be provider neutral, so you have to put in the Wireless Village server settings.

If your phone doesn't have an inbuilt chat client, you might still be able to get a third-party chat application that runs on your phone's Symbian, Java ME, BREW, or other application environment. You need to get a chat client which is "Wireless Village compliant presence-enabled".

Note that it is still necessary for the operator to provide the IM service and/or one will have to connect to a third party server for connection with others for IM'ing

Compatible terminals

This is only a partial list. Many phones sold today support IMPS, especially phones from these manufacturers.

Nokia
- 3220, 3500, 6020, 6021, 6120, 6220, 6230, 6230i, 6300, 6630, 6820, 5140, 6810, 7200, 7260, 7270, 7610, 8800, E50, E51, E60, E61, E62, E65, E70, N70, N72,N73, N95
Motorola
- V500, V600, E398, V3, V3xx
Sony Ericsson
- K310, J300i, F500i, K300i, K310i, K500i, K510i, K550i, K600i, K610i, K700i, K750i, K790i, K800i, S700i, T206, T630, T637, V800, W550i, W200i, W800i, W810i, W850i, W880i, W900i, Z500A, Z800, Z1010
Siemens AG
- CX70, CX75, M65, SK65, S75
BenQ-Siemens
- S68, E71, EL71, M81

Known Service Providers

noknok MTN South Africa, South Africa's 1st operator launched IMPS service launched with OMA IMPS CSP 1.2 compatible services including SMS and MMS integration. It does not work with native IMPS applications on phones however.
Yamigo free IMPS service.
MobJab Free IMPS
chatNU IMPS Denmark
SMSLine Russia
Baraza Free IMPS

Topics by Level of Interest: IMPS
Topics sorted by level of Interest	Level (1=low, 600=high)	Topics sorted Alphabetically	Level (1=low, 600=high)
The Oxford Imps	8	Compuserve IMPs	4
IMPS	7	IMPS	7
Compuserve IMPs	4	The Oxford Imps	8
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).

Translations: IMPS

Language	Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Central Danish	integrerede Middelhavsprogrammer (imps, integrated Mediterranean programmes). Additional references: Central Danish, Denmark, Germany, imps. (volunteer & more translations)
Danish	integrerede Middelhavsprogrammer (imps, integrated Mediterranean programmes). Additional references: Danish, Denmark, Germany, imps. (volunteer & more translations)
Dansk	integrerede Middelhavsprogrammer (imps, integrated Mediterranean programmes). Additional references: Dansk, Denmark, Germany, imps. (volunteer & more translations)
Deutsch	Teufelchen (imp, imps). Additional references: Deutsch, Germany, Austria, imps. (volunteer & more translations)
German	Teufelchen (imp, imps). Additional references: German, Germany, Austria, imps. (volunteer & more translations)
Greek	ΜΟΠ (imps, integrated Mediterranean programmes), Μεσογειακά Ολοκληρωμένα Προγράμματα (imps, integrated Mediterranean programmes). Additional references: Greek, Greece, Albania, imps. (volunteer & more translations)
Greek (transliteration)	mop (imps, integrated Mediterranean programmes), mesoyaka olokliromena programmata (imps, integrated Mediterranean programmes). Additional references: Greek, Greece, Albania, imps. (volunteer & more translations)
High German	Teufelchen (imp, imps). Additional references: High German, Germany, Austria, imps. (volunteer & more translations)
Hochdeutsch	Teufelchen (imp, imps). Additional references: Hochdeutsch, Germany, Austria, imps. (volunteer & more translations)
Japanese	子鬼 (imp, imping, imps). Additional references: Japanese, Japan, Taiwan, imps. (volunteer & more translations)
Sjaelland	integrerede Middelhavsprogrammer (imps, integrated Mediterranean programmes). Additional references: Sjaelland, Denmark, Germany, imps. (volunteer & more translations)
Spanish	Programas Integrados Mediterráneos (imps, integrated Mediterranean programmes). Additional references: Spanish, Spain, Mexico, imps. (volunteer & more translations)
Source: Eve, based on a combination of meta analysis and graph theory (for near and back translations).		Top

Language	Translations for “imps” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses.
Pig Latin	impsway (imps). Additional references: Pig Latin, imps. (volunteer)
Terran B	Programred (imps). Additional references: Terran B, imps. (volunteer)
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