Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word ISO

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Definitions of ISO

1. (colloquial) Clipping of isolation.
2. (category theory) Clipping of isomorphism.
3. (music, derogatory) Abbreviation of instrument-shaped object. Used to refer to a musical instrument that is of very low quality.
4. (organisation) The International Organization for Standardization.
5. (file format) A disk image of an ISO 9660 file system (such as a CD or DVD); also used as the file extension for such a file.
6. (photography) A measure of film sensitivity or brightness, derived from the ISO standard.
7. Initialism of Imperial Service Order.
8. Initialism of incentive stock option.
9. (in personal ads) Initialism of in search of.

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Examples of Using ISO in a Sentence

• The ISO assigns language codes to 32 varieties of Arabic, including its standard form of Literary Arabic, known as Modern Standard Arabic, which is derived from Classical Arabic.
• ASA ("American Standards Association") a measure of film speed in photography, later replaced by the ISO standard.
• ASL is a common initialism for American Sign Language, the sign language of the United States and Canada (not be confused with Auslan, also called ASL or Asilulu language which has the ISO code ASL), and may also refer to:.
• ANSI C, ISO C, and Standard C are successive standards for the C programming language published by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/WG 14 of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).
• The term country code frequently refers to ISO 3166-1 alpha-2, as well as the telephone country code, which is embodied in the E.
• One of the earliest, and probably the best known, is DIN 476 — the standard that introduced the A-series paper sizes in 1922 — adopted in 1975 as International Standard ISO 216.
• DTDs persist in applications that need special publishing characters, such as the XML and HTML Character Entity References, which derive from larger sets defined as part of the ISO SGML standard effort.
• ISO 3166-1, Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions – Part 1: Country codes, defines codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest.
• ISO 8601 is an international standard covering the worldwide exchange and communication of date and time-related data.
• The file system is an international standard available from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
• The original standard developed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in collaboration with the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) was adopted by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in 1998, but it remains an integral part of the family of IEEE 802 standards for local and metropolitan networks.
• It was originally adopted by the European Committee for Banking Standards (ECBS) and since 1997 as the international standard ISO 13616 under the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
• ISO 216 is an international standard for paper sizes, used around the world except in North America and parts of Latin America.
• ISO 3864 specifies international standards for safety signs and markings in workplaces and public facilities.
• ISO 4217 is a standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) that defines alpha codes and numeric codes for the representation of currencies and provides information about the relationships between individual currencies and their minor units.
• Although administered separately, in the ISO 3166-1 standard, Jan Mayen and Svalbard are collectively designated as Svalbard and Jan Mayen, with the two-letter country code "SJ".
• Both the ISO code "SEK" and currency sign "kr" are in common use for the krona; the former precedes or follows the value, the latter usually follows it but, especially in the past, it sometimes preceded the value.
• Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (ISO: Mōhanadāsa Karamacaṁda Gāṁdhī; 2 October 186930 January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule.
• The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) is an alliance of working groups established jointly by ISO and IEC that sets standards for media coding, including compression coding of audio, video, graphics, and genomic data; and transmission and file formats for various applications.
• The mole fraction is called amount fraction by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) This nomenclature is part of the International System of Quantities (ISQ), as standardized in ISO 80000-9,.
• Portable Document Format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.
• QSIG was originally developed by Ecma International, adopted by ETSI and is defined by a set of ISO standard documents, so is not owned by any company.
• Sanskrit (ISO 639-1 code: sa), a historical Indo-Aryan language, the liturgical language of Hinduism.
• The Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML; ISO 8879:1986) is a standard for defining generalized markup languages for documents.
• The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) republished IS-IS in , but that RFC was later retracted and marked as historic because it republished a draft rather than a final version of the (International Organization for Standardization) ISO standard, causing confusion.

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