IFS

n. possibility; supposition; condition

IFS could stand forIfs, Calvados, a commune of the département of Calvados, in the Basse-Normandie région, in FranceIfs (river), a river in FranceIndependent Front Suspension, an early type of front-end independent suspension on many passenger vehiclesIndian Forest ServiceIndian Foreign ServiceIndustrial and Financial Systems - IFS AB, a Swedish company and author of ERP softwareInstallable File System, a filesystem API in IBM OS/2 and Microsoft Windows NT.Institute for Fiscal StudiesIntensive Freshman Seminar, a program at Indiana University. see www.ifs.indiana.eduInteractive Fitness Software, an Australian based company (with offices in the UK) that specializes in computer based employee assistance programs.Internal family systems, a school of psychotherapy, see Internal Family Systems ModelInternational Financial Statistics, a database maintained by the IMFInternational Foundation for Science, gives research grants to young scientists in the developing world.Internal Field Separator, a special set of characters in Unix shellsInternet File System, an Oracle java-based File SystemInterference (intensity) fluctuation spectroscopy, related to dynamic light scattering, see ScatteringIntegrated File System - on IBM midrange & mainframe systems (e.g. OS/400, MVS, VM/CMS), the POSIX compatible filesystem provided by the operating system, as opposed to the traditional non-POSIX filesystem it also suppliesInternational Food Standard, a European standard for retail food products Introductory Flight Screening, flight screening used to determine if a candidate is fit for Navy Flight SchoolIrish Free State, a state in Ireland which existed in the early part of the 20th centuryIterated function system a method of constructing fractals in mathematics and computer science
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n. yew, evergreen tree with poisonous needles; wood of yew tree; bow made of yew wood (Archaic)

Abbreviation for ionospheric forward scatter. See ionospheric scatter.

Synonym ionospheric scatter.

1. <operating system> internal field separators.
2. <operating system> Installable File System.
3.  Iterated Function System.
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