IPS

IPS, ips, or iPS may refer to:

Biology and medicine

 * Ips (beetle), a genus of bark beetle
 * Induced pluripotent stem cell or iPS cells
 * Intermittent photic stimulation, a neuroimaging technique
 * Intraparietal sulcus, a region of the brain

Computing

 * IPS panel, in-plane switching, a screen technology for liquid-crystal displays
 * Image Packaging System, OpenSolaris software
 * Instructions per second, a measure of a computer's processor speed
 * Internet Provider Security
 * Interpreter for Process Structures, used in AMSAT satellites
 * International Patching System file extension, see ROM hacking
 * Indoor positioning system, for wireless location indoors
 * Intrusion prevention system, network security appliance

Mathematics

 * Inner product space, a vector space with an additional structure called an inner product

Units of measure

 * 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)
 * Iron pipe size

Other uses in science and technology

 * Inboard propulsion system, for watercraft by Volvo Penta
 * 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, nominal pipe size, originally based upon internal diameter of a pipe
 * Inverse photoemission spectroscopy, a spectroscopy technique

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 Physics Singapore
 * 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

 * Ford Dorsey Program in International Policy Studies
 * Indianapolis Public Schools
 * Institute for Policy Studies
 * Institute for the Psychological Sciences
 * Invision Power Services
 * I Promise School, elementary school in Akron, Ohio

Other organizations

 * Identity and Passport Service, United Kingdom
 * Indian Police Service
 * Insectivorous Plant Society, Japan
 * Institute for Palestine Studies, Lebanon
 * Institute for Politics and Society, Czech Republic
 * Iraqi Police Service
 * Irish Prison Service
 * Israel Prison Service

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
 * Institutional protection scheme, a mutual support arrangement in European banking
 * International Parcel Service, a fictional delivery company featured on the sitcom The King of Queens
 * Ipswich railway station, Suffolk, England, National Rail station code IPS