Ind
noun
Ind
1 American
[ind]
/ ɪnd /
IND
2
American
abbreviation
Pharmacology.
ind-
3
American
ind.
4
American
abbreviation
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independence.
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independent.
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index.
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indicated.
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indicative.
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indigo.
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indirect.
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industrial.
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industry.
Ind.
5
American
I.N.D.
6
American
abbreviation
Ind.
1
British
abbreviation
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Independent
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India
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Indian
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Indiana
Ind
2
British
/ ɪnd /
IND
3
British
abbreviation
-
Also: IDN. in nomine Dei
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India (international car registration)
Etymology
Origin of Ind1
1175–1225; Middle English Inde < Old French Inde < Latin India India
Origin of I.N.D.6
From Latin in nōmine Deī
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Other jurisdictions throughout the state and nation have put limits on or banned rodeos, including San Francisco, Irvine and Pasadena, as well as Pittsburgh; Baltimore County, Md.; Leesburg, Va.; and Fort Wayne, Ind.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
Federal agents arrested Brown in late February at his home in Jeffersonville, Ind.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 2026
"A second visit to Eps Ind Ab with JWST: new photometry confirms ammonia and suggests thick clouds in the exoplanet atmosphere of the closest super-Jupiter" in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 22, 2026
She stars as a commercial cleaner in her latest film project, “We Strangers,” an observation on assimilation, code switching and belonging in Gary, Ind.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2024
Mr. Coope was born in 1814, and was a partner in the firm of Ind, Coope, and Co.
From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Charles Mackie
The stockpile also contains millions of doses of another vaccine, called ACAM2000, which is approved for smallpox and available for monkeypox under an IND.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 17, 2022
Dubbing itself Saving IND, an alumni-led group obtained hundreds of signatures on an online petition supporting efforts to keep the school open.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 11, 2020
Are there ways for companies to deal with the difficulty to gain IND approvals in China?
From Forbes ● Apr. 29, 2015
FMT for recurrent C. difficile infections can be performed without any mandatory screening, whereas FMT for other indications cannot be performed without an IND, a hurdle that will dissuade some physician–investigators.
From Nature ● Feb. 19, 2014
So I explain to her about the Indian arrowheads, and we get out the classified phone book and look at the subway map, which shows there’s an IND train that goes right to it.
From It’s like this, cat by Emily Neville
This word was used in Middle English as a noun, and regularly as the 3d pers. sing. pres. ind. of the verb "uprise."
From Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Select Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Pres. part. in ind. ge of past part. turned into i or y. 3d plural in en.
From A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
A plant of Azalea indica variegata has been exhibited bearing a truss of flowers of A. ind. gledstanesii "as true as could possibly be produced, thus evidencing the origin of that fine variety."
From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 by Charles Darwin
Saying, verbs of, w. inf. of ind. disc.,
From New Latin Grammar by Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett
From same as No. 22; pres. ind. 1st plur. act.,
From Greek in a Nutshell by James Strong
On Saturday in Carmel, Ind., emergency officials relocated about 40 residents from their homes amid flooding and helped move residents and staff from a senior living facility, Mayor Sue Finkam said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Federal inspectors detailed multiple instances of mammalian hair found in drugs produced at a Catalent plant in Bloomington, Ind., used in part to manufacture semaglutide.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
Born on Feb. 3, 1941, in Hammond, Ind., Funk was the oldest of Dory and Dorothy Funk’s two sons.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
The Fort Wayne, Ind., resident brought her 2014 Dodge Journey to a mechanic a few years ago and left with unbalanced tires.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
Root perennial; leaves all sessile; petals longer than the calyx, deeply 2-cleft; stamens 10.—Shaded rocks, Penn. to Ind., and southward.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
In order to offer it to patients, doctors would need to file an investigational new-drug application, or I.N.D., and obtain the agency’s permission.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 24, 2014
Six weeks later, in July, 2013, the F.D.A. declared an exception for doctors treating recurrent C. difficile: they would be allowed to perform fecal transplants without an I.N.D.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 24, 2014
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