ISM

See also: -ism, -ism-, ism, and ism.

English

Proper noun

ISM

1. Initialism of Institute for Supply Management.
   • 2012 August 1, Emily Jane Fox, “U.S. manufacturing contracts again”, in CNN Money‎^[1], archived from the original on 25 May 2025:

     The ISM report came as another worrying sign following last month's surprisingly low number, which ended a 34-month growth streak.

2. Initialism of Indian Summer Monsoon.

Noun

ISM (plural ISMs)

1. Initialism of Imperial Service Medal.
2. (astronomy) Abbreviation of interstellar medium.
3. (RF telecommunications) Initialism of industrial scientific medical.

Related terms

(interstellar medium):

• IPM (interplanetary medium)
• IGM (intergalactic medium)
• ICM (intracluster medium)
• EGM (extragalactic medium)
• ECM (extra-cluster medium)

Further reading

• ISM on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• (interstellar medium): interstellar medium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• IMS, IMs, MIS, MIs, MSI, SIM, Sim, mis-, sim