# IPS

IPS, ips, or iPS may refer to:

## Science and technology
### Biology and medicine

* Ips (beetle), a genus of bark beetle
* Induced pluripotent stem cell or iPS cells
* Intermittent photic stimulation, a neuroimaging technique
* Intraparietal sulcus, a region of the brain

### Computing

* IPS panel, in-plane switching, a screen technology for liquid-crystal displays
* Image Packaging System, OpenSolaris software
* Instructions per second, a measure of a computer's processor speed
* Internet Provider Security
* Interpreter for Process Structures, used in AMSAT satellites
* International Patching System file extension, see ROM hacking
* Indoor positioning system, for wireless location indoors
* Intrusion prevention system, network security appliance
physics a vector space with an additional structure called an inner product

### Units of measure

* Inch per second, a unit of speed
* Inch–pound–second system of units, a system of measurement sometimes used in engineering (i.e. CAD design)
* Iron pipe size

### Other uses in science and technology

* Inboard propulsion system, for watercraft by Volvo Penta
* Inclined plate settler, a type of clarifier used in water purification; See Lamella clarifier
* Interplanetary Superhighway, a collection of gravitationally determined pathways through the Solar system
* Introductory Physical Science
* IPS/UPS, an electric power transmission grid of some CIS countries
* Iron pipe size, nominal pipe size, originally based upon internal diameter of a pipe
* Integrated Product Support, a group of norms (S-Series) maintained by ASD and AIA and A4A
* Inverse photoemission spectroscopy, a spectroscopy technique

## Organizations
### International

* Industrial and provident society, in the UK, Ireland, and New Zealand
* Industrial Promotion Services of the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development
* Institute of Physics Singapore
* Institute of Professional Sound
* Inter Press Service, a global news agency
* International Parliamentary Scholarship
* International Peatland Society, founded 1968 in Quebec, Canada
* International Planetarium Society
* International Polarisation Scale
* International Primatological Society
* International Professional Surfers
* International Pyrotechnics Society

### United States

* Ford Dorsey Program in International Policy Studies
* Indianapolis Public Schools
* Institute for Policy Studies
* Institute for the Psychological Sciences
* Invision Power Services
* I Promise School, elementary school in Akron, Ohio

### Other organizations

* Identity and Passport Service, United Kingdom
* Indian Police Service
* Insectivorous Plant Society, Japan
* Institute for Palestine Studies, Lebanon
* Institute for Politics and Society, Czech Republic
* Iraqi Police Service
* Irish Prison Service
* Israel Prison Service

## Other uses

* IPS Supported Employment, for people who have a severe mental illness
* Investment policy statement, stipulating how an investor's money is to be managed
* Institutional protection scheme, a mutual support arrangement in European banking
* International Parcel Service, a fictional delivery company featured on the sitcom The King of Queens
* Ipswich railway station, Suffolk, England, National Rail station code IPS