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IA or ia may mean: Individual Augmentee, a U.S. military program for augmenting units with personnel from other organizations or branches of service.
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.
Internal audit, a business profession specializing in the removal of impediments to organizational objectives.
International Arbiter, a chess title awarded by the World Chess Federation
Intraarterial injection.
Indigo Abuse, a radical indigo child forum that closed down in 2006, still referred to affectionately as 'IA' by former members of the site.
Internal Assessment, a form of assessment for the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme

Places
Ia or Oia, Greece, a small town on the island of Santorini.
Iowa, U.S.A. (postal abbreviation).

Companies and organizations

Ignite Automation, Electronic Control Design Company in Ireland.
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
Interactive Achievement Inc., an educational benchmark testing software company. Roanoke, VA
IA Argentinian aircraft manufacturer.
Ae, for "Dirección General de Aerotécnica"(1927-1936);
F.M.A., for "Fábrica Militar de Aviones" (1938-1943);
I.Ae., for "Instituto Aerotécnico" (1943-1952);
IA, meaning not specified (1952 to 2007).

Language
Insha'Allah, Arabic word meaning "If God wills".
Interlingua (ISO 639 alpha-2, ia).
Я (ya), a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet

Intel Microprocessor architectures
IA-32, Intel Architecture, 32-bit
IA-64, Intel Architecture, 64-bit (Itanium).

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.

Science
Ia (genus), of vespertilionid bats.
Ia or I-a, a subtype of Type I supernova, see Type Ia supernova

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.
InstallAnywhere, a Java-based software tool for creating installers or software packages, for multiple platforms.

Fiction
The Irken Armada, alien invaders in the 2001-launched TV series Invader Zim
Invasion America, a 1998 TV series
Invasion America (board wargame), a 1976 game
Ia, an 1892 novelette by Arthur Quiller-Couch
"Iä", a fictional greeting in the works of HP Lovecraft

Source: Wikipedia

Translation

The word "IA" occurs as such in the following languages: English, Catalan, Danish, German, Estonian, Spanish, French, Korean, Italian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Norwegian (Bokmål), Portuguese.

Translation(s) in other languages: Esperanto: Ia, Ripuarian: IA (Watt ėßß datt?), Romanian: IA (dezambiguizare), Russian: Йа, Finnish: Ia, Thai: ไอเอ.


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