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Various meanings of ISO:

1) International Organization for Standardization is a non-government organization that sets standards for different kinds of industry to promulgate quality and improvement to their respective industries.

- One of the ISO standards is the "speed" assigned to photographic film, eg. ISO 100, ISO 200, ISO 400.

- Similarly, the ISO on a digital camera refers to a light sensitivity setting.

- The "ISO" file name extension term for the CD/DVD's were derived from their ISO 9660 standard file system.

[In this context, 'ISO' is not an acronym for the name of the organisation -it is a word, pronounced 'eye-so' that represents the organisation, regardless of how the organisation's name is written in any language.]

2) ISO on a message board, Craigslist or forum means "In Search Of"

3) The word iso is from the Greek isos meaning equal. In Finnish, it means "great" or grand. It is a prefix in several other languages.

4) The acronym can also mean International Socialist Organisation.

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