International Standards Organization, an international organization responsible for setting international standards, such as the ISO Latin-1 character set
Applied to compounds of certain isomeric series in whose structure one carbon atom, at least, is connected with three other carbon atoms; contrasted with neo- and normal; as in isoparaffine; isopentane
International Standards Organization The principal international group responsible for standards in many areas For purposes of this discussion, the standards referenced for electronic communications
= International Organization for Standardization ISO was founded in 1946 It is an international federation of national standards organizations from over 100 countries ISO is a word, not an abbreviation, derived from the Greek isos, "equal", found in terms such as "isometric" and "isonomy" It was created in an attempt to avoid creating even more abbreviations for the members' national languages (e g IOS in English or OIN in French for "Organisation internationale de normalisation")