CIS Definition

sis
abbreviation
Commonwealth of Independent States.
Webster's New World
Commonwealth of Independent States.
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(Canada, sports) Canadian Interuniversity Sport.
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prefix
On this side.
Cisatlantic.
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Having a pair of identical atoms or groups on the same side of a plane that passes through two carbon atoms linked by a double bond. Used of a geometric isomer.
Cis-2-butene.
American Heritage
affix
On this side of.
Cisalpine.
Webster's New World
Subsequent to.
Webster's New World
Designating an isomer having certain atoms or groups on the same side of a given plane in the molecule.
Cis-butene.
Webster's New World
adjective

(biology) Having two mutations on two genes on the same chromosome of a homologous pair.

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(cytology) Of the side of the Golgi apparatus nearer to the endoplasmic reticulum.
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(chemistry) Alternative form of cis-.
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(LGBT) Cisgender or cissexual: not trans (transgender or transsexual).

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Origin of CIS

  • From Latin cis (“on the same side”). The gender-related sense is a clipping of cissexual or of cisgender (from Latin cis).

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin from cis on this side of ko- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

CIS Sentence Examples

  • Some misunderstanding has been caused by the confusion of Edom (cis) and Aram (o,·) in viii.

  • In the last century cis of the Republic the two later Greek schools of Epicureanism and Stoicism laid hold on Roman society.

  • The Roman prince Nero Claudius Drusus (q.v.) The gamin the year 12 B.C. annexed what is now the kingdom paigns oi of the Netherlands, and constructed a canal (Fossa other Drusiana) between the Rhine and the lake Flevo Ro1fl811 (Lacus Flevus), which partly corresponded to the ea CIS.

  • The name Anatolia, in the form Anadol, is used by natives for the western part of the peninsula (cis Halym) and not as including ancient Cappadocia and Pontus.

  • Kassa consists of the inner town, which was the former old town surrounded with walls, and of three suburbs separated from it by a broad gla cis.

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Words Starting With C and Ending With S

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