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Intentional infliction of emotional distress

Intentional infliction of emotional distress (IIED), the tort of outrage, is a U.S. tort requiring extreme and outrageous conduct, intent or recklessness, and severe distress; limited by the First Amendment, Snyder v. Phelps, and defamation-overlap rules.

Intentionality

Intentionality is the power of minds and mental states to be about or represent things; Franz Brentano called it the mark of the mental in 1874.

Intentionally blank page

Intentionally blank page (vacat page, German Vakatseite): a page marked "This page intentionally left blank", inserted for signature counts, recto chapter starts, or error reassurance; earliest known phrase use circa 1922.

Intentions of Murder

Intentions of Murder (赤い殺意, Akai Satsui; also Unholy Desire) is Shohei Imamura's 1964 Nikkatsu film in which housewife Sadako, raped by a burglar, transforms into a strong woman; 150 minutes, black and white, starring Masumi Harukawa.

Intepirdine

Intepirdine (RVT-101, SB-742457), a selective 5-HT6 receptor antagonist developed by GSK and Axovant for Alzheimer's and Lewy body dementia; failed phase 3 MINDSET and phase 2b HEADWAY-DLB trials.

Inter (typeface)

Inter is a free and open-source sans-serif typeface designed by Rasmus Andersson for computer screens and user interfaces, first released in 2017 under the SIL Open Font License.

Inter Alia (play)

Inter Alia is a 2025 play by Suzie Miller, follow-up to Prima Facie, about judge Jessica Parks whose son is accused of rape. Premiered at the National Theatre with Rosamund Pike, won a 2026 Olivier, transfers to Broadway in 2026.

Inter Arma

Inter Arma is an extreme metal band from Richmond, Virginia, formed in 2006, blending doom, sludge, black metal, and death metal across six albums on Relapse Records.

Inter caetera

Inter caetera, also known as the Bull of Demarcation, is a papal bull issued by Pope Alexander VI in May 1493 granting Castile rights over western Atlantic lands.

Inter City Firm

Inter City Firm (ICF): West Ham United hooligan firm formed 1977/78, named for InterCity trains, known for calling cards, Cass Pennant, the 1985 Hooligan documentary, and 1988 police crackdowns.

Inter Dominion

Inter Dominion: Australasian harness racing championship series first held in 1936, rotating between Australian states and New Zealand, with heats and Grand Finals for pacers and trotters; Blacks A Fake won a record four finals.

Inter Dominion Trotting Championship

Inter Dominion Trotting Championship: trotters' division of the Australasian Inter Dominion harness racing series, first run 1948 at Alexandra Park, Auckland; recent champions Just Believe, The Locomotive, Arcee Phoenix.

Inter Miami CF

Inter Miami CF (Club Internacional de Fútbol Miami) is an MLS club launched in 2018, owned by Jorge Mas, Jose Mas, and David Beckham, that signed Lionel Messi in 2023 and won the 2023 Leagues Cup, 2024 Supporters' Shield, and 2025 MLS Cup.

Inter Milan

Inter Milan, officially FC Internazionale Milano and nicknamed the Nerazzurri, is a professional Italian football club founded in Milan in 1908, with 21 league titles and 3 European Cups.

Inter Pipeline

Inter Pipeline is a Calgary-based Canadian energy infrastructure company owning oil sands pipelines, natural gas liquids processing, and petrochemical assets in Alberta, acquired by Brookfield Infrastructure in 2021.

Inter RAO

Inter RAO (ПАО «Интер РАО») is a Russian energy holding company, founded in 1997, that serves as Russia's only electricity exporter and importer and operates about 31.2 GW of generation.

Inter-Allied campaign medals of World War I

The Inter-Allied campaign medals of World War I were victory medals issued separately by fifteen Allied nations from 1919 to 1922, sharing a common rainbow ribbon and winged Victory design.

Inter-American Convention to Prevent and Punish Torture

The Inter-American Convention to Prevent and Punish Torture (A-51), adopted at Cartagena de Indias on December 9, 1985 and in force February 28, 1987, is an OAS regional torture treaty with a definition broader than the UN Convention against Torture.

Inter-American Development Bank

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is a multilateral development bank founded in 1959 to finance development in Latin America and the Caribbean, with 48 member countries.

Inter-area oscillation

An inter-area oscillation is a low-frequency oscillation in a large power grid where geographically separate generator groups swing against each other across weak transmission links, limiting power transfer.

Inter-Cities Fairs Cup

Inter-Cities Fairs Cup (Coupe des Villes de Foires), European club football competition 1955-1971 for trade-fair cities, forerunner of the UEFA Cup; Barcelona won three titles; UEFA excludes its records from official European records.

Inter-process communication

Inter-process communication (IPC), also known as interapplication communication, is the mechanisms an operating system provides for processes to exchange data, using pipes, message queues, shared memory, and sockets.

Inter-rater reliability

Inter-rater reliability, also called inter-rater agreement, is the degree to which two or more raters rating the same subjects agree, often measured with Cohen's kappa.

Inter-Services Intelligence (بین الخدماتی مخابرات)

Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI, بین الخدماتی مخابرات) is Pakistan's largest intelligence agency, founded in 1948 by Maj Gen Cawthome, military-run under a three-star general with no formal oversight law, central to Afghanistan, Kashmir, and domestic security.

Inter-Territorial Language Committee

The Inter-Territorial Language Committee was an East African body, meeting from 1930, that standardized Kiswahili for official use and by 1948 served as the region's sole authority for Swahili literary publication.

Inter-universal Teichmüller theory

Inter-universal Teichmüller theory (IUT) is a mathematical framework developed by Shinichi Mochizuki at Kyoto University and released in 2012, claiming a proof of the abc conjecture that remains disputed.

Interacting boson model

The interacting boson model (IBM) is a nuclear structure model created in 1974 by Francesco Iachello and Akito Arima, describing collective nuclear excitations as interacting boson pairs.

Interaction

In physics, an interaction is a fundamental force through which particles influence one another; the Standard Model describes the electromagnetic, weak, and strong interactions, with gravity excluded.

Interaction (statistics)

In statistics, an interaction, also called an interaction effect, occurs when the effect of one variable on an outcome depends on the level of another.

Interaction design

Interaction design (IxD) is the design of how users interact with products, chiefly digital ones like apps and websites, aiming to help users achieve their objectives.