Industrial, Scientific and Medical: Radio frequency bands made available for use by communication equipment without license, within certain maximum emitted power limits. Equipment which uses the ISM band must tolerate interference from other such equipment. Common uses include WiFi (802.11a, b, and g) and cordless phones.

"distinctive doctrine, theory, or practice," 1670s, the suffix -ism used as an independent word, chiefly disparagingly. Related: Ismatical. By the same path, ist is from 1811.

The Institute of Supply Management is a U.S. organisation, formerly known as the National Association of Purchasing Management (NAPM). It publishes two monthly purchasing managers' indices (PMI) based on surveys of purchasing managers in U.S. manufacturing industry and in the non-manufacturing sector. If the indices are above 50 it indicates t [..]

Abbreviation for industrial, scientific, and medical applications (of radio frequency energy).

(n) a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school

condition, process

International Management Code for the Safe Operation of Ships and for Pollution Prevention [International Safety Management (ISM) Code]

ISM means "Industrial, Scientific, Medical". In order to avoid caotic interference of electromagnetic signals an international standardisation defines frequency ranges which may be used for industrial, scientific and medical purposes. These reserved frequencies are 40 kHz, 27,12 MHz, 13,56 MHz, 2,45 GHz. 

Inside of Metal

Information Security Manual (New Zealand) 

Code International Safety Management Code, IMO

International Safety Management

International Safety Management 

International Safety Management

Industrial, Scientific, Medical

International Safety Management Code (Digital telephone system combining voice and data transmission)

Information Security Marking

theory, characteristic of

Integrated Safety Management

IMO's International Safety Management (code)

A suffix that forms a noun that refers to a theory or doctrine. "The rapid proliferation of isms characterized modernism's artistic and intellectual ferment" such as in the words Expres [..]

An ideology, system of thought, or practice that can be described by a word ending in -ism. * '''1843''', , '''', book 2, ch. XV, ''Practical — Devotional'' *: […] his religion, his worship was li [..]