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'Ix' or 'IX' may refer to:

★ The Roman numeral representing the number nine — literally one (I) less than ten (X).

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★ (There are also separate Unicode characters for this number, 0x2168 "Ⅸ" and 0x2178 "ⅸ").

★ The 'IX', the oligarchy ruling Siena, Italy during the late middle ages.

★ 'I'nternet E'x'change, or Internet Exchange Point.

★ ''iX'': A German monthly computer magazine.

★ The IX multilevel-secure Unix operating system

★ The US Navy hull classification symbol for an "Unclassified Miscellaneous" ship. In the last few decades of her commission, USS ''Constellation'' was classified as IX-20, and for several decades, USS ''Constitution'' was IX-21.

★ The Maya jaguar god supporting the west portion of the sky. ''See Maya mythology''.

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★ Also the 14th day name (or Tsolk'in) in the Maya tradition (often with a glottal stop in front of it " 'Ix ")

★ The central governmental supercomputer in the videogame Omikron - The Nomad Soul.

★ A fictional planet in Frank Herbert's novel ''Dune''. ''See Ix (Dune)''.

★ A fictional country in the book ''Queen Zixi of Ix'' by L. Frank Baum, neighboring on the Land of Oz. It later appears in ''The Silver Princess in Oz'' by Ruth Plumly Thompson

★ Ix is the character nicknamed Ford Prefect — a character from ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' — that translates into "''boy who is not able satisfactorily to explain what a Hrung is, nor why it should choose to collapse on Betelgeuse Seven''".

★ ix, a series of automatic teller machines manufactured by Diebold

★ iX is the name of Megaman X's sadistic alter-ego, who originated from the Limited Virus created by Dr. Doppler in ''the Rockman Mega Mission'' manga adaptation.

★ IX is the name of a series of websites from Swiss based travel operator Ixeo