| international flight | a flight that takes off in one country and lands in another |
| international terrorism | terrorism practiced in a foreign country by terrorists who are not native to that country |
| jihad jehad international jihad | a holy war waged by Muslims against infidels |
world affairs
international affairs | affairs between nations, you can't really keep up with world affairs by watching television |
mutual aid
international logistic support | arrangements made between nations to assist each other |
concert pitch
philharmonic pitch
international pitch | the pitch used to tune instruments for concert performances, usually assignsHz to the A above middle C |
Morse
Morse code
international Morse code | a telegraph code in which letters and numbers are represented by strings of dots and dashes (short and long signals) |
International Wanted Notice
Red Notice | an Interpol notice describing a wanted person and asking that he or she be arrested with a view to extradition, a wanted notice that is issued by Interpol at the request of an Interpol member country and distributed to all member countries, an Interpol Red Notice is the closest instrument to an international arrest warrant in use today |
| International Islamic Front for Jihad against Jews and Crusaders | a terrorist group organized by Osama bin Laden in that provided an umbrella organization for al-Qaeda and other militant groups in Egypt and Algeria and Pakistan and Bangladesh |
Japanese Red Army
JRA
Anti-Imperialist International Brigade | a terrorist group organized into overthrow the Japanese government and monarchy and to foment world revolution, is said to have close ties with Palestinian terrorists, in the Japanese Red Army was responsible for a massacre at an airport in Israel |
Hare Krishna
International Society for Krishna Consciousness
ISKCON | a religious sect founded in the United States in , based on Vedic scriptures, groups engage in joyful chanting of `Hare Krishna' and other mantras based on the name of the Hindu god Krishna, devotees usually wear saffron robes and practice vegetarianism and celibacy |
Lions Club
International Association of Lions clubs | club dedicated to promoting responsible citizenship and good government and community and national and international welfare |
Rotary Club
Rotary International | a group of businessmen in a town organized as a service club and to promote world peace |
world organization
world organisation
international organization
international organisation
global organization | an international alliance involving many different countries |
International Court of Justice
World Court | a court established to settle disputes between members of the United Nations |
United Nations Children's Fund
United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund
UNICEF | an agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries |
International Atomic Energy Agency
IAEA | the United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy |
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
World Bank
IBRD | a United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments |
International Civil Aviation Organization
ICAO | the United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation |
International Development Association
IDA | an agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank |
International Finance Corporation
IFC | a United Nations agency that invests directly in companies and guarantees loans to private investors, affiliated with the World Bank |
International Labor Organization
International Labour Organization
ILO | the United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor |
International Maritime Organization
IMO | the United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities |
International Monetary Fund
IMF | a United Nations agency to promote trade by increasing the exchange stability of the major currencies |
United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
Centre for International Crime Prevention | the United Nations office responsible for crime prevention and criminal justice and law reform |
| international intelligence agency | an intelligence agency outside the United States |
International Relations and Security Network
ISN | Switzerland's information network for security and defense studies and for peace and conflict research and for international relations |
| international law enforcement agency | an international administrative unit responsible for law enforcement |
| International | any of several international socialist organizations |
international law
law of nations | the body of laws governing relations between nations |
dateline
date line
International Date Line | an imaginary line on the surface of the earth following (approximately) the th meridian |
Kennedy
Kennedy Interrnational
Kennedy International Airport | a large airport on Long Island to the east of New York City |
high sea
international waters | the open seas of the world outside the territorial waters of any nation |
| International Grandmaster | a chess player who has been awarded the highest title by an international chess organization |
balance of payments
balance of international payments | a system of recording all of a country's economic transactions with the rest of the world over a period of one year, a favorable balance of payments exists when more payments are coming in than going out |
Systeme International d'Unites
Systeme International
SI system
SI
SI unit
International System of Units
International System | a complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists, fundamental quantities are length (meter) and mass (kilogram) and time (second) and electric current (ampere) and temperature (kelvin) and amount of matter (mole) and luminous intensity (candela), Today the United States is the only country in the world not totally committed to the Systeme International d'Unites |
| ampere international ampere | a former unit of electric current (slightly smaller than the SI ampere) |
| international candle | a former international unit of luminous intensity, now replaced by the candela |
mile statute mile
stat mi
land mile
international mile
mi | a unit of length equal to , yards or , feet, exactly . meters |
nautical mile mile mi naut mi
knot
international nautical mile
air mile | a unit of length used in navigation, exactly , meters, historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude |
Celsius scale
international scale
centigrade scale | a temperature scale that defines the freezing point of water as
degrees and the boiling point of water as degrees |
external
international
outside(a) | from or between other countries, external commerce, international trade, developing nations need outside help |
| international | concerning or belonging to all or at least two or more nations, international affairs, an international agreement, international waters |