MSI

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.
   • 2011 April, “Winning the Future IMPROVING EDUCATION FOR THE LATINO COMMUNITY”, in CNN en Español‎^[1], page 11:

     While many MSIs struggle, a number of their pre-service teacher training programs demonstrate better-than-average results despite being dramatically under-funded as compared to programs at non-MSI peer institutions. […] With more than 1 million teachers expected to retire in the coming years, the MSI Hawkins program and the TEACH Campaign provide avenues whereby 1.7 million new teachers can be recruited over the next seven years, particularly minority males, to pursue careers in the classroom.

   • 2017 May 23, Gregory Krieg and Will Mullery, “Trump’s budget by the numbers: What gets cut and why”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     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^[3]:

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

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

• (MS Installer): MS, MSU

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

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

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^[4]:

     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.

• MSI on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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

MSI m

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

• mis-