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Industrial waste
Industrial waste, also called manufacturing waste, is discarded solid, liquid, or gaseous material produced by manufacturing, mining, construction, and energy production, distinct from household waste.
Industrial wastewater treatment
Industrial wastewater treatment, or an effluent treatment plant, is the physical, chemical, and biological treatment of water from industrial facilities, treated on site or at municipal plants.
Industrial Workers of the World
The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), known as the Wobblies, is a labor union founded in Chicago in 1905 to organize all workers, skilled and unskilled alike.
Industrialisation
Industrialisation: the shift from agrarian, handicraft production to machine-based factory manufacturing, beginning in late 18th-century Britain and spreading to Europe, the US, and Japan, with measurable effects on wages, diets, cities, and social classes.
Industrialization of Bohemia
The industrialization of Bohemia turned the Bohemian Lands, with Moravia and Austrian Silesia, into the most industrially advanced region of the Habsburg Monarchy by the late nineteenth century.
IndustriALL Global Union
IndustriALL Global Union, global union federation founded 19 June 2012 from IMF, ICEM and ITGLWF; 550 affiliates, 50 million workers, Geneva head office, 14 sectors, Global Framework Agreements.
Industrias Peñoles
Industrias Peñoles is a Mexican mining-metallurgical group founded in 1887, the world's largest producer of refined silver and Latin American leader in gold and lead.
Industries Qatar
Industries Qatar is a Qatari holding company incorporated in 2003 and majority owned by QatarEnergy, operating in petrochemicals, fertilizer, and steel through QAFCO, QAPCO, and Qatar Steel.
Industry (TV series)
Industry (TV series): HBO/BBC drama created by former bankers Mickey Down and Konrad Kay, premiering November 2020, about graduates competing at the fictional London investment bank Pierpoint; four seasons through 2026, covering ESG investing and a payments firm's fraud.
Industry Baby
"Industry Baby" is a 2021 Columbia Records hip-hop single by Lil Nas X and Jack Harlow, produced by Kanye West and Take A Daytrip; it debuted at No. 2 on the Hot 100 with 40.6 million first-week US streams.
Industry classification
Industry classification, also called industry taxonomy, is the practice of assigning companies to standardized categories, from broad sectors down to narrow industries, for statistics and investment research.
Industry Foundation Classes
Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) is an open data model describing objects, properties, and relationships in buildings and infrastructure, published by buildingSMART International as ISO 16739.
Industry plant
Industry plant: pejorative for a musician presented as independent or grassroots while secretly backed by a label or financier. Coined in early-2010s hip-hop fan forums; now applied loosely to fast-rising artists, disproportionately women and artists of color.
Industry Standard Architecture
Industry Standard Architecture (ISA), or AT bus, is the expansion-bus standard of IBM PC compatible computers from the early 1980s into the 2000s, beginning as the 8-bit PC bus.
Industry Ventures Direct
Industry Ventures Direct is a family of four co-investment funds managed by San Francisco venture capital firm Industry Ventures, which Goldman Sachs agreed to acquire in 2025.
Industry Ventures Partnership
Industry Ventures is a San Francisco venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Hans Swildens, managing about $7 billion when Goldman Sachs agreed to acquire it in 2025.
Indwelling Catheters
Indwelling catheters (Foley catheters) are balloon-retained tubes placed urethrally or suprapubically to drain urine for days to weeks; main risks are CAUTI, blockage, and trauma, with limited trial evidence comparing catheter types.
Indy (dog)
Indy is a Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever, the untrained pet of director Ben Leonberg and Kari Fischer, who stars as the canine protagonist of the 2025 horror film Good Boy, shot over 400 days in three years, winning SXSW's Howl of Fame Award and a 2026 Astra Award; distinct from the rescue dog Indy (Cato) of Under the Dome.
Indy (musician)
Indy is the stage name of India Yelich O'Connor (born 1998), New Zealand indie pop singer-songwriter and poet, younger sister of Lorde and daughter of poet Sonja Yelich. Debut single "Threads" (2022), EPs Threads (2023) and Fame Is a Bedroom (2025), based in New York City.
Indy Eleven
Indy Eleven is a professional soccer club from Indianapolis, Indiana, founded in 2013 by Ersal Ozdemir, playing in the USL Championship at Carroll Stadium while pursuing the Eleven Park stadium project.
Indya Moore
Indya Moore (born 1995) is an American actor, model, and activist from the Bronx, best known as Angel Evangelista on FX's Pose (2018–2021). Also founder of Beetlefruit Media, an IMG-signed model and Louis Vuitton ambassador, and a 2019 TIME 100 honoree.
IndyCar
The NTT INDYCAR SERIES, the top American open-wheel racing series and home of the Indianapolis 500, runs Dallara IR-12/IR-18 chassis with Honda and Chevrolet 2.2-liter twin-turbo hybrid V6s; the IR-28 debuts in 2028 with 760 hp.
IndyCar Series
NTT INDYCAR SERIES, North America's premier open-wheel racing series; Dallara IR12 chassis, Honda/Chevrolet 2.2L twin-turbo V6; IR-28 car with 2.4L 760-hp hybrid engines debuts 2028; home of the Indianapolis 500.
IndyCar Series at Markham Centre
Ontario Honda Dealers Indy at Markham: NTT INDYCAR SERIES street race on a 12-turn, 3.52 km circuit in Markham Centre, Ontario, replacing the Toronto race from 2026 under a five-year deal; Marcus Ericsson won the inaugural 2026 event.
Ine of Wessex
Ine of Wessex, West Saxon king (r. 688–726), issuer of the first Anglo-Saxon law code outside Kent; the code survives appended to Alfred's laws and may have been written originally in Latin.
Inebilizumab
Inebilizumab (Uplizna, formerly MEDI-551) is a humanized anti-CD19 IgG1 monoclonal antibody depleting B cells, approved for AQP4+ NMOSD, IgG4-related disease, and generalized myasthenia gravis, dosed 300 mg IV every 6 months.
Inebu-hedj
Inebu-hedj, meaning "White Wall(s)", is the earliest recorded name of the fortified settlement that became Memphis, Egypt, and of the first nome of Lower Egypt, whose capital it was.
Ined
Ined, with the throne name Mersekhemre, was a king of the late Thirteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt, known almost entirely from the Turin King List, which credits him with a reign of just over three years.
Inedia
Inedia (Latin for fasting), or breatharianism, is the pseudoscientific claim of living without food or water, sustained by prana; investigated cases show fraud, unconfirmed anomalies, and deaths from starvation and dehydration.
Ineffable Intelligence
Ineffable Intelligence is a British AI research company in London, founded by DeepMind veteran David Silver in 2025 to build systems that learn from experience.