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InterCloud
InterCloud was a Paris-based startup founded in 2010 that provided software-defined private network connectivity between enterprises and major cloud providers; it was acquired by BSO in 2025.
Interconnection queue
An interconnection queue is the list of proposed power plants and storage projects a transmission operator studies before they connect to the grid, a major bottleneck for solar and wind.
InterContinental
InterContinental Hotels & Resorts is a luxury hotel brand owned by IHG, founded by Pan Am in 1946, with 242 hotels at the end of 2025.
Intercontinental and transoceanic fixed links
An intercontinental or transoceanic fixed link is a permanent bridge, tunnel, or causeway crossing a strait or ocean, built mostly as long-studied proposals like Gibraltar and the Bering Strait.
Intercontinental ballistic missile
An intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) is a land-based ballistic missile that travels more than 5,500 kilometers, a Cold War threshold, forming the land leg of nuclear triads.
Intercontinental BR of the Mediterranean Biosphere Reserve (Spain)
Intercontinental Biosphere Reserve of the Mediterranean (RBIM), Reserva de la Biosfera Intercontinental del Mediterráneo: UNESCO biosphere reserve designated 27 October 2006, the first intercontinental one, spanning Andalusia (Spain) and northern Morocco across the Strait of Gibraltar, with 413,201.72 ha land, 17,976.82 ha marine, and 529,086 inhabitants.
Intercontinental Cup (1960–2004)
The Intercontinental Cup, also known as the European/South American Cup, was an annual football competition between European and South American club champions from 1960 to 2004.
Intercontinental Exchange
Intercontinental Exchange, formerly IntercontinentalExchange Group Inc., is an American exchange operator founded in 2000 to digitize energy markets, agreeing in 2012 to buy NYSE Euronext for $8.2 billion.
Intercontinental Rally Challenge
The Intercontinental Rally Challenge (IRC), also called the International Rally Challenge, was a Eurosport rally series for production-based cars from 2006 to 2012, merged into the European Rally Championship in 2013.
Intercooler
An intercooler, also called a charge air cooler, is a heat exchanger that cools air compressed by a turbocharger or supercharger, raising air density so the engine makes more power.
Intercooling
Intercooling is a modification of the Brayton cycle, used in gas turbines and jet engines, in which compression is split into stages and the gas is cooled between them.
Intercostal nerve block
An intercostal nerve block is a regional anesthesia technique that numbs the chest wall, used after chest, breast, or abdominal surgery and for rib fractures.
Intercostal nerves
Intercostal nerves (nervi intercostales) are the anterior rami of thoracic spinal nerves T1-T11 running in the costal grooves; T7-T11 continue as thoracoabdominal nerves, T12 is the subcostal nerve, and T2 gives the intercostobrachial nerve.
Intercostal neuropathy
Intercostal neuropathy (intercostal neuralgia; ICD-10 G58.0, ICD-11 8C12.0) is peripheral neuropathy of the intercostal nerves causing band-like chest wall pain, mainly after thoracotomy or herpes zoster, treated with blocks, RFA, and surgery.
Intercostal pain
Intercostal pain, also called intercostal neuralgia, is neuropathic pain along an intercostal nerve between the ribs, usually band-like or dermatomal, caused mainly by thoracotomy or herpes zoster and diagnosed after excluding cardiac, pulmonary, and gastrointestinal causes.
Intercostal plane block
The intercostal plane block is a regional anesthesia technique targeting the intercostal sulcus to numb nerves. It provides dermatomal numbness for thoracic and upper abdominal pain after surgery.
Intercountry Adoption Act of 2000
The Intercountry Adoption Act of 2000 is a US federal statute implementing the 1993 Hague Adoption Convention, designating the State Department as Central Authority and accrediting adoption providers.
Intercountry adoption in Canada
Intercountry adoption in Canada: Hague Convention party (ratified 1996, in force 1997). Provinces run adoptions, IRCC handles citizenship/immigration; two routes exist. China closed to non-Chinese adopters in 2024; Ethiopia, Russia, and others restrict or ban adoptions.
Intercountry adoption law in Commonwealth jurisdictions
Intercountry adoption law in Commonwealth jurisdictions governs adopting children from abroad in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand under the 1993 Hague Convention, including central authorities, costs, and citizenship recognition.
Intercountry adoption law of the United Kingdom
The intercountry adoption law of the United Kingdom governs adoptions with a foreign element, chiefly under section 83 of the Adoption and Children Act 2002 and the 2005 foreign-element regulations.
Intercounty Baseball League
The Intercounty Baseball League (IBL) is a senior baseball league in southwestern Ontario, founded in 1919 and Canada's oldest still-operating amateur league, with 2025 attendance of 249,590.
Intercourse, Pennsylvania
Intercourse, Pennsylvania, is an unincorporated village and census-designated place in Lancaster County, founded in 1754 and known for its Amish country tourism and unusual name.
Intercropping
Intercropping is the practice of growing two or more crop species simultaneously in one field, often producing more food per unit of land than monoculture.
Intercrural sex
Intercrural sex, also called interfemoral sex or thigh riding, is non-penetrative sex between the thighs. Article covers its definition, Kenneth Dover's ancient Greek scholarship and the revisionist critique, and survey prevalence data.
Intercultural communication
Intercultural communication: interaction in which cultural and linguistic differences are seen as relevant; also an interdisciplinary field covering nonverbal misunderstanding, cultural intelligence, training, healthcare, and AI tools.
Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation
The Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation (IPO) is a Pacific-wide pattern of decadal sea surface temperature variability resembling El Niño, first described by Power and colleagues in 1999.
Interdental brush
An interdental brush is a small oral hygiene device with soft bristles on a thin wire core, used between the teeth to remove plaque where a toothbrush cannot reach.
InterDigital
InterDigital is an American technology research and development company founded in 1972 and based in Wilmington, Delaware, which invents wireless, video, and AI technologies and earns revenue by licensing its roughly 38,000 patents to manufacturers.
Interdigital transducer
An interdigital transducer (IDT) is an electrode structure that converts electrical signals into surface acoustic waves and back, the basis of SAW filters in mobile phones.
Interdigitated back contact solar cell
An interdigitated back contact (IBC) solar cell is a crystalline silicon photovoltaic cell with both metal contacts interlocked on the rear surface, eliminating front-side shading and reaching efficiencies above 25%.