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ISI en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable) Abbreviation of intersymbol interference.
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of international sensitivity index.
  3. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of import substitution industrialization.
    • Since ISI had been embraced by military juntas and urban interest-groups as an alternative to the oligarchic export-economy, government planners discriminated against exports by imposing heavy duties and pouring resources into manufacturing industry in preference to agriculture. 1992, Edwin Williamson, The Penguin History of Latin America, London; New York: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 336:

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Source: en.wiktionary, “ISI” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

ISI en · PROPN

Meanings

  1. (Pakistan, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of Inter-Services Intelligence.
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of Islamic State in Iraq.
  3. (US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of Intercollegiate Studies Institute, a conservative educational organization.
    • The turmoil has engulfed more and more of the right. Earlier this month, two board members of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI), another influential conservative group, resigned […]. They noted that ISI recently unveiled a new podcast whose first guest, Curtis Yarvin, has defended slavery, said that white people have inherently higher IQs than black people and called for the American republic to be replaced with a dictatorship. 2025 November 20, J. Oliver Conroy, “White nationalist Nick Fuentes is exposing a civil war among US Republicans: ‘We look like clowns’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 05 Dec 2025: