AIS

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

• academic intervention services
• 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.

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