MSI

See also: msi, mši, mší, and мши

English

Etymology 1

Noun

MSI (plural MSIs)

1. (electronics) Initialism of medium scale integration.
2. (software, Windows) Initialism of Microsoft installer.
3. (US, education) Initialism of minority-serving institution.
   • 2017 May 23, Gregory Krieg and Will Mullery, “Trump’s budget by the numbers: What gets cut and why”, in CNN‎:

     The Budget preserves funding for Title III and V programs that support Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs), consistent with the President’s executive order on HBCUs.”

4. Initialism of meaningful social interaction.
   • 2021 October 27, Rachel Metz, “Likes, anger emojis and RSVPs: the math behind Facebook’s News Feed — and how it backfired”, in CNN Business‎:

     The introduction of the MSI metric quickly helped with Facebook’s engagement problem, according to an internal research note from November 6, 2019.

Coordinate terms

• (electronics): SSI, LSI, VLSI, ULSI, WSI
• (MS Installer): CAB, DMF

Related terms

• (MS Installer): MS, MSU

See also

• (electronics): IC, solid-state, chip, discrete component

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian MSI (“Movimento Sociale Italiano”).

Proper noun

MSI

1. (Italian politics, historical) The Italian Social Movement.
   • 2024 January 13, Barbie Latza Nadeau, “Video of crowd’s fascist salute in heart of Rome rattles Italy – but not its prime minister”, in CNN‎:

     Two, Franco Bigonzetti and Francesco Ciavatta, were murdered by suspected left-wing activists on the street in front of the MSI party headquarters and the third, Stefano Recchioni, by a police officer responding to riots against the first killings.

References

• MSI on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• -ism, IMS, IMs, ISM, MIS, MIs, SIM, Sim, ism, mis-, sim

Italian

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

MSI

Wikipedia ^it

Proper noun

MSI m

1. (politics, historical, 1946–1995) Initialism of Movimento Sociale Italiano.

Anagrams

• mis-