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Indecent exposure
Indecent exposure is the crime of publicly exposing one's genitals in a way likely to offend or alarm others, usually a misdemeanor in most U.S. states.
Indecent Proposal
Indecent Proposal is a 1993 American drama directed by Adrian Lyne. It stars Robert Redford and Demi Moore, and features a billionaire offering $1 million for one night with a married couple.
Indecisiveness
Indecisiveness (ICD-11 MB28.6) is the trait-like tendency to have difficulty making decisions or committing to a course of action, measured by the Frost and Shows Indecisiveness Scale and distinct from indecision and procrastination.
Indecomposable distribution
An indecomposable distribution, also called an indecomposable probability distribution, is one that cannot be written as a convolution of two non-degenerate distributions, like prime numbers.
Indeed
Indeed is an employment search engine and job board founded in 2004, owned by Japan's Recruit Holdings, where job seekers search free and employers pay.
Indefinite leave to remain
Indefinite leave to remain (ILR), or settlement, is the UK immigration status allowing a person to live, work and study in the UK without time limit, typically after 5 years on a qualifying visa, leading to British citizenship; distinct from EUSS settled status.
Indefinite-lived intangible asset
An indefinite-lived intangible asset is an intangible asset with no limit on its useful life, so it is not amortized but tested for impairment at least annually.
Indego (exoskeleton)
Indego is a powered lower-limb exoskeleton developed at Vanderbilt University that enables people with spinal cord injury or stroke to stand and walk; it is now sold by Ekso Bionics.
Indel detection
Indel detection is the set of laboratory and computational methods for identifying insertions and deletions in DNA, used in genome resequencing and in quantifying CRISPR-Cas9 editing outcomes.
Indemnification clause
An indemnification clause is a contract provision in which one party agrees to defend and pay for third-party claims against the other, such as IP infringement suits.
Indemnity
Indemnity: a binding promise by one party (indemnifier) to compensate another for defined loss, also called hold harmless; distinct from guarantee (secondary, three-party) and from regulated insurance; primary obligation, dollar-for-dollar recovery, construed strictly.
Inden Coal Mine
The Inden Coal Mine (Tagebau Inden) is an RWE open-cast lignite mine in the Rhenish lignite district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, one of three large mines alongside Hambach and Garzweiler.
Indene
Indene (C₉H₈) is a bicyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, a benzene ring fused with cyclopentene, and the first pure PAH detected in interstellar space, in TMC-1 in 2021.
Indénié
Indénié, also written Ndényé or Ndenye, is an Akan kingdom of the Agni (Anyi) people in eastern Côte d'Ivoire between the Comoé River and the Ghana border, with its capital at Abengourou.
Indénié-Djuablin
Indénié-Djuablin, an eastern Côte d'Ivoire region with capital Abengourou, three departments (Abengourou, Agnibilékrou, Bettié), 716,443 inhabitants at the 2021 census, and a cocoa and rubber economy.
Indentation size effect
The indentation size effect (ISE) is the increase in measured hardness as indentation size decreases, becoming significant below about 1 μm depth and commonly modeled by Nix and Gao's 1998 dislocation-based theory.
Indentation style
Indentation style: the conventions for indenting code blocks, including C-family brace styles (K&R, Allman, GNU), indent widths, tabs versus spaces, Python-style significant indentation, and formatter enforcement.
Indentation testing
Indentation testing, or the indentation test, presses a hard indenter of controlled geometry into a material's surface, measuring hardness, elastic modulus, creep, and stress relaxation from resistance to penetration.
Indentured servitude
Indentured servitude, also called indentured labor, is a labor contract binding a worker for a set term in exchange for paid passage, common in the American colonies until 1917.
Independence
Independence (political independence) is a state's exclusive competence over its territory, equivalent to sovereignty in international law; distinguished from autonomy, qualified by interdependence, and dependent on recognition, as with Palestine and Somaliland.
Independence (probability theory)
Independence in probability theory is the property that one event's occurrence does not change the probability of another, formalized as P(A ∩ B) = P(A) · P(B).
Independence Army (Zili jun)
The Independence Army (自立军) was the armed wing of the Self-Support Society, formed after the failed 1898 reforms, whose 1900 plot to rise in the Yangtze valley was suppressed.
Independence Club
The Independence Club (독립협회) was Korea's first modern political and social organization, founded in Seoul in 1896 by reformer Seo Jae-pil and dissolved by the government in 1898–99.
Independence Contract Drilling, Inc.
Independence Contract Drilling, Inc. was a Houston, Texas-based provider of contract land drilling services for shale producers, listed on the NYSE as ICD from 2014 until its 2024 bankruptcy.
Independence Day (1996 film)
Independence Day is a 1996 American science fiction film directed by Roland Emmerich, in which aliens attack Earth's cities and humanity fights back over the July 4 weekend.
Independence Day (Bangladesh)
Independence Day (মহান স্বাধীনতা ও জাতীয় দিবস) is Bangladesh's national day on 26 March, marking the 1971 proclamation of independence by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, distinct from Victory Day on 16 December.
Independence Day (India)
Independence Day (स्वतंत्रता दिवस), India's national holiday on 15 August, marks independence from British rule in 1947 under the Indian Independence Act; the Prime Minister hoists the flag at the Red Fort and addresses the nation.
Independence Day (Israel)
Yom Ha'atzmaut (יום העצמאות), Israel's Independence Day, a national holiday on 5 Iyar marking Ben-Gurion's May 14, 1948 declaration of the State of Israel at Tel Aviv, marked by the Mount Herzl torch-lighting ceremony after Yom HaZikaron.
Independence Day (Malaysia)
Independence Day (Malaysia), Hari Merdeka or Hari Kebangsaan, is the 31 August national holiday marking Malaya's 1957 independence from Britain, distinct from Malaysia Day on 16 September, which marks the 1963 federation formation.
Independence Day (Mexico)
Independence Day (Día de la Independencia), Mexico's September 16 national holiday, commemorates the 1810 Grito de Dolores by Miguel Hidalgo; celebrated the night of September 15, distinct from Cinco de Mayo.