Iris
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Iris can mean:
- The sphincter around the pupil of the eye, see iris (anatomy)
- The equivalent device in a camera, also known as a diaphragm
- The messenger of the gods in Greek mythology, see Iris (mythology)
- The genus Iris of flowering plants, and their flowers: see iris (plant)
- The Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship (IRIS), now defunct, which developed the Intermedia hypertext publishing system at Brown University.
- A movie by Richard Eyre, about Iris Murdoch, see Iris (2001 movie)
- A Dutch comic magazine, see Iris magazine
- A female first name
- A Romanian heavy-metal/hard-rock band IRIS
- The asteroid 7 Iris
- Irises (painting), a painting by Vincent Van Gogh
- Iris (synthpop), a Texas based synthpop band
- I.R.I.S. Group, a Belgian company, developing OCR software
- The IRIS Consortium. Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
- Iris (song), a song from the film City of Angels by The Goo Goo Dolls
- Iris (Stargate), a fictional device in the television show Stargate SG-1, protecting the SGC from unauthorised incoming travellers
- Iris, an opera by Pietro Mascagni.
The word iris originated as Greek for rainbow.
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