# IA
## English
### Proper noun

IA
* Iowa, a state of the United States of America.
* (military, uncountable) Initialism of Indian Army.
** 2014, Daniel Marston, The Indian Army and the End of the Raj‎, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 1:Provided that they [the Indian Army or IA] do their duty, armed insurrection in India would not be an insoluble problem. If however the IA go the other way, the picture would be very different. We do not have the military force to hold India against a widespread guerrilla movement or to reconquer India ... It is doubtful if we could keep the Indian troops loyal. Attlee to Chiefs of Staff, TOP, XI, p.68
* (India, initialism) Initialism of Indian Airlines.
** 2002, Rohit Saran, “Aviation - Indian Airlines”, in India Today‎, volume 27, Thomson Living Media India Limited, page 50:Your home in the sky. In the coming weeks, Indian Airlines (IA) may consider changing its slogan to something more down to earth. For the airline itself may be running for shelter when it announces its results for 2001-2 sometime next month.
* (military) Initialism of Iraqi Army.
* (computing) Initialism of Intel Architecture.
* Initialism of Ice Age.
    (Can we add an example for this sense?)
* (Internet) Initialism of Internet Archive: an American nonprofit digital library website founded in 1996.

#### Derived terms

(Intel Architecture):
* IA-32
* IA-64

#### See also

* Indian Army on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Indian Army at the Encyclopedia of India
* Indian Airlines on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Indian Airlines at the Encyclopædia Britannica

### Interjection

IA
* (Arabic English) inshallah; God willing

### Noun

IA (countable and uncountable, plural IAs)
* Initialism of immediate action. (the procedure to determine the cause of a rifle stoppage)
* Initialism of Institute of Arts.
* (computing) Initialism of information assurance.
* (law enforcement) Initialism of internal affairs. (a department responsible for investigating complaints against police officers)
* (military) Initialism of individual augmentee.
* (linguistic morphology) Initialism of item-and-arrangement.
* (grammar) Initialism of internal argument.
* (politics) Initialism of international affairs.
* Initialism of industrial action.
* Initialism of Impact Assessment.
    Hyponyms: SIA, RIA, CCIA, HRIA, EIA, CIA
* (Philippines, education) Initialism of industrial arts, one of the strands under the TVL track in senior high school.

#### Synonyms

* (law enforcement): IAD, IAB

### Anagrams

* A-I, AI, Ai, a.i., ai

## French
### Noun

IA f (uncountable)
* (artificial intelligence) Initialism of intelligence artificielle (“artificial intelligence”); AI
** 2019, Alain Damasio, chapter 3, in Les furtifs [The Stealthies], La Volte, →ISBN:[…] nous privilégions tous les deux les « interfaces humaines », comme ils disent, même quand elles singent, comme ici, une mauvaise IA. […] we privilege both "human interfaces", as they say, even when they ape, as here, a bad AI
* Initialism of insémination artificielle (“artificial insemination”); AI

### Anagrams

* ai

## Italian
### Etymology

Initialism of intelligenza artificiale.

### Noun

IA f
* AI (artificial intelligence)

### Anagrams

* -ai, ai, ài

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Initialism of inteligência artificial.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /iˈa/ [ɪˈa]
* (Portugal) IPA: /iˈa/

### Noun

IA f (plural IAs)
* (computing) AI (artificial intelligence)

## Spanish
### Noun

IA f (uncountable)
* (computing) Initialism of inteligencia artificial. (AI (artificial intelligence))
* (medicine) Initialism of incidencia acumulada. (CI (cumulative incidence))