MIPS
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MIPS may refer to:
Businesses and organizations
[edit]- MIPS Technologies, an American semiconductor design firm
- Maharana Institute of Professional Studies, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Mansehra International Public School and College, Mansehra, Pakistan
- Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Science (MIPS), Parkville, Victoria, Australia
- Munich Information Center for Protein Sequences, Germany
Economics and finance
[edit]- Material input per unit of service, an eco-efficiency indicator
- Monthly income preferred stock, a financial instrument
- Merit-based Incentive Payment System, in United States Medicare
Technology
[edit]Computing
[edit]- Million instructions per second, a CPU performance measure
- MIPS architecture, a RISC instruction set architecture
- Maximum inner-product search, in computer science
- Stanford MIPS, a research project
- MIPS-X, a follow-on project
Other technologies
[edit]- Molecularly imprinted polymer
- Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer, on the Spitzer Space Telescope
- Multi-directional Impact Protection System, a helmet safety technology
Other uses
[edit]- Menards Infiniti Pro Series, a former name of an Indy Pro Series automobile race
- MIPS, a rabbit in Super Mario 64
- Minimum Ionizing Particles, a term widely used in experimental particle physics