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")
The International Organization for Standardization A worldwide federation of national standards bodies (e g , ANSI from the U S ) that develops international standards A Technical Committee (ISO/TC211) is developing international Geographic Information/Geomatics standards Among many other computing standards, ISO maintains an SQL standard and is developing an extended version, SQL3, which will support queries on geographic data sets
International Organization for Standardization: An international organization for standardization, based in Geneva, Switzerland, that establishes voluntary standards and promotes global trade of 90 member countries Best known for the 7-layer OSI Reference Model See OSI