ISS

See also: iss, íss, īss, İSS, -iss, and -iss-

English

Noun

ISS (countable and uncountable, plural ISSes)

1. (education) Initialism of in-school suspension.

Proper noun

ISS

1. (space science) Initialism of International Space Station.
   • 2021 December 13, Molly Ball, Jeffrey Kluger, Alejandro de la Garza, “Elon Musk: Person of the Year 2021”, in TIME‎^[1], archived from the original on 13 December 2021:

     Before Musk, America’s space industry was moribund. In 2011, NASA mothballed the last space shuttle, after inking a deal with SpaceX to make uncrewed cargo resupply runs to the International Space Station (ISS). […] SpaceX launched its first crew to the ISS aboard a Dragon spacecraft in May 2020.

Synonyms

International Space Station

• (obsolete former names) Alpha, Space Station Alpha, Configuration Alpha
• (obsolete former names) Freedom, Space Station Freedom

Derived terms

International Space Station

• ARISS

Translations

International Space Station

• Armenian: ՄՏԿ (hy) (MTK)
• Dutch: ISS (nl) n
• German: ISS (de)
• Polish: MSK (pl)
• Russian: МКС (ru) (MKS)
• Telugu: ఐఎస్‌ఎస్ (aies‌es‌)
• Turkish: UUİ

Anagrams

• -sis, SIS, SIs, SSI, sis

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English ISS.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.ɛsˈɛs/

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

ISS n

1. (space science, ESA) ISS; the International Space Station

Further reading

• ISS on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

Anagrams

• sis

German

Pronunciation

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

Proper noun

ISS f

1. (space science, ESA) ISS

   Synonym: Internationale Raumstation