CIS

See also: cis, Cis, cís, cìs, cis-, -cis, and çiş

English

Proper noun

CIS

1. Initialism of Commonwealth of Independent States.
2. (Britain, business) Initialism of Construction Industry Scheme.

Translations

Commonwealth of Independent States

• Afrikaans: GOS
• Aragonese: CEI
• Armenian: ԱՊՀ (hy) (APH)
• Asturian: CEI
• Bashkir: БДБ (BDB)
• Basque: EIE
• Belarusian: СНД (SND)
• Breton: KSD
• Bulgarian: ОНД (OND)
• Catalan: CEI
• Czech: SNS (cs)
• Danish: SNG
• Dutch: GOS
• Estonian: SRÜ
• Finnish: IVY (fi)

• French: CEI (fr) f
• German: GUS (de) f
• Greek: ΚΑΚ f (KAK)
• Hungarian: FÁK (hu)
• Japanese: CIS, 独立国家共同体 (どくりつこっかきょうどうたい, dokuritsu-kokka-kyōdōtai)
• Latvian: NVS
• Norwegian:

  Norwegian Bokmål: SUS

  Norwegian Nynorsk: SUS

• Polish: WNP (pl) f
• Portuguese: CEI (pt) f
• Romanian: CSI f
• Russian: СНГ (ru) n (SNG)
• Slovak: SNŠ
• Spanish: CEI f

Initialism

CIS

1. (Canada, sports) Canadian Interuniversity Sport

Noun

CIS (plural CISes)

1. Initialism of contact image sensor.
   • 1998, PC Mag (volume 17, number 18, page 179)

     Because of its tabloid-size scanbed, the Plug-n-Scan has a large footprint that makes it very stable. On the other hand, being a CIS scanner, it's light and has a very low profile and is designed so that the scanner can be stood upright on its end and still function.

Anagrams

• -ics, CSI, ICS, ICs, I²Cs, SCI, SIC, Sci., sci, sci., sic