AIS

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AIS is a three-letter abbreviation with multiple meanings, as described below:

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Account Information Security, a VISA security program intended to protect the account information of credit card holders
Accounting Information System
Advanced Info Service, a Thai mobile phone operator
Aeronautical Information Service
Alarm indication signal, a signal transmitted by a system that is part of a communications link to let the receiver know that some part of the link has failed. Some types of AIS signals are:
- Alarm indication signal path (AIS-P)
- Alarm indication signal line (AIS-L)
Alltel Information Services
Amity International School
Androgen insensitivity syndrome
Application Interface Specification, a technical specification defined by the Service Availability Forum
Artificial immune system
Association for Information Systems
Australian Institute of Sport
automated information system
Automated Intercept System, a Telecommunications system that typically handles the automated error messages in the public Telephone system (e.g. "The number you have reached has been disconnected...")
Automatic Identification System, a navigation and surveillance system capable of providing information about a ship to others and to coastal authorities automatically
Islamic Salvation Army (in French), the former military wing of the Islamic Salvation Front in Algeria

Ais as a word is used as follows:

An ais is a vertical board in the service end of a jeu quarré real tennis court.
The Ais were a Native American tribe that lived on the east coast of Florida.