ISI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ISI mean? 

• ISI (noun)
  The noun ISI has 1 sense:

1. the Pakistan intelligence agency; a powerful and almost autonomous political and military force; has procured nuclear technology and delivery capabilities; has had strong ties with the Taliban and other militant Islamic groups

  Familiarity information: ISI used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ISI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The Pakistan intelligence agency; a powerful and almost autonomous political and military force; has procured nuclear technology and delivery capabilities; has had strong ties with the Taliban and other militant Islamic groups

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence; Inter-Services Intelligence; ISI

Hypernyms ("ISI" is a kind of...):

international intelligence agency (an intelligence agency outside the United States)

Domain region:

Islamic Republic of Pakistan; Pakistan; West Pakistan (a Muslim republic that occupies the heartland of ancient south Asian civilization in the Indus River valley; formerly part of India; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947)

 Context examples 

The International Normalized Ratio of Prothrombin Time (INR) is the ratio of a patient prothrombin time to a normal (control) sample raised to the power of the International Sensitivity Index (ISI) with a range of 0.8 to 1.2 seconds.

(International Normalized Ratio of Prothrombin Time, NCI Thesaurus)

All results are standardized using the international sensitivity index (ISI) for the particular thromboplastin reagent and instrument combination utilized to perform the test; the ratio of a patient's clotting time to the lab's mean reference value is normalized against the ISI.

(International Normalized Ratio, NCI Thesaurus)