User Contributed Dictionary
Etymology
LatinNoun
vis- Force; power.
Initialism
vis.- viscount
Afrikaans
Noun
visDutch
Verb
visFrench
Pronunciation
Noun
vis (plural: vis)- screw (metal fastener)
- (plural) screws
Verb
visLatin
Verb
vīs (2nd person singular active indicative form of velle)- (you) want
Inflection
Norwegian
Adjective
Verb
vis- Imperative of vise
Romanian
Etymology
visumSwedish
Pronunciation
Adjective
visNoun
vis- way; manner in which something is done or happens
Synonyms
Extensive Definition
People
- Rudi Vis, British politician
Vis
- Vis Moot, the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, a prestigious moot held annually in Vienna, Austria
- Vis (weapon), a type of Polish handgun
- Vis (island), a Croatian island in the Adriatic sea
- Vis (town), town and municipality on the island of Vis
- Vis, Bulgaria, a village in Ivaylovgrad municipality, Haskovo Province, Bulgaria
- Vis, the possessive form of the English neologistic gender-neutral pronoun ve
- Vis (computer graphics), a form of polygon culling used to accelerate the rendering of 3D environments
- Visible light, especially in the combined form UV-VIS (ultraviolet and visible)
VIS
- Vasil Iliev Security, Bulgarian front company for a criminal organisation
- Vatican Information Service, an electronic daily news letter produced by the Holy See Press Office in the Vatican
- Vavoua International School, an international boarding school in Côte d'Ivoire founded by Worldwide Evangelisation for Christ
- Victorian Institute of Sport, a government sporting institute in Victoria, Australia
- Vienna Independent Shorts, an annual international short film festival in Austria
- Vienna International School, an international school in Austria founded to accommodate the children of UN employees and diplomats
- Viewable image size, the amount of screen space available on display without obstruction
- Visalia Municipal Airport, IATA airport code and FAA location identifier the public airport at Visalia, Tulare County, California
- Visa Information System, a database of fingerprints and facial scans in use by Schengen Zone countries
- Visual Instruction Set, a SIMD instruction set for SPARC processors
- Voter Information Service for Elections Canada
See also
vis in French: Vis
vis in Italian: VIS
vis in Dutch: Vis
vis in Japanese: VIS
vis in Polish: Vis