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
Example Sentences
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It also touted a “direct employment presence in more than 20 states,” including a facility in Red Oak, Texas, and another in Los Angeles, plus plans for a new facility in Fort Wayne, Ind.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 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
While college basketball’s other superstars play musical chairs and top programs rebuild their entire rosters every offseason, he has decided again and again that the grass isn’t any greener away from West Lafayette, Ind.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
With the purchase of Allen’s stations, Gray moves into three new television markets: Tupelo, Miss.; Terre Haute, Ind.; and West Lafayette, Ind.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2025
Then, indeed, will man's helpmate become to him and to his children "More rich than pearls of Ind or gold of Ophir, And in her sex more wonderful and rare."
From Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind by John Augustine Zahm
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
NOTE.—In the familiar style, the second person singular of this verb, is usually and more properly formed thus: IND.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
The several types of conjugation represented in Irish have become obscured, traces remaining only in the endings of the third sing. of the pres. ind., the pret. ind.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
Saying, verbs of, w. inf. of ind. disc.,
From New Latin Grammar by Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett
Has, haz, 3d pers. sing. pres. ind. of have.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
Hast, hast, 2d pers. sing. pres. ind. of have.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
On another plant of A. ind. variegata a perfect flower of A. ind. lateritia was produced; so that both gledstanesii and lateritia no doubt originally appeared as sporting branches of A. ind. variegata.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 by Charles Darwin
Instead, it was a sales manager in Bargersville, Ind., named AJ Woodin, sitting on his sofa.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 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
Gary, Ind., is launching an $80 million campaign to demolish 7,000 abandoned homes and businesses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Mo. to S. Ind., Tenn., N. C., and southward.—A large tree, with flaky bark; intermediate between n. 3 and n. 5.
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
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
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
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