noun
pl. vi′res· force; strength
Origin of vis
Classical Latin
noun
Vis is Latin for power or force.
An example of vis is the influence of the United States economy on the economy of other countries.
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vis
- visibility
- visible
- visual
Vis
- Viscount
- Viscountess
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abbreviation
- viscount
- viscountess
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Noun
(plural vires)
- Force; power.
Origin
From Latin vis, from Proto-Indo-European *weyÇ- (“power").
More distantly, compare also vigil, vigor, and vital, from similar PIE roots and meanings (lively, power, life), via Latin.
Noun
- Abbreviation of viscount.
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vis - Computer Definition
(1) (Voice Information Service) A variety of voice processing service applications.
(2) (Visible Image Size) The actual viewing area on a CRT. In the late 1990s, the CRT industry had an honesty attack and began to provide the actual viewing size along with the overall designation (14", 15", 17" etc.) which had always been slightly exaggerated. See viewable image.
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Sentence Examples
- Ceiving nerve from vis ce.pe, The cerebro-pedal connecceral loop.
- When the bridges broke down, unarmed soldiers, people from Moscow and women with children who were with the French transport, all--carried on by vis inertiae-- pressed forward into boats and into the ice-covered water and did not, surrender.
- Assuming as an axiom that the centre of gravity of any number of interdependent bodies cannot rise higher than the point from which it fell, he arrived, by anticipating in the particular case the general principle of the conservation of vis viva, at correct although not strictly demonstrated conclusions.
- The second cycle of mesenteries consists of six couples, each formed in an exocoele of the primary cycle, and in each couple the muscle-banners are vis-a-vis.
- He is credited with the invention of the anchor escapement for clocks, and also with the application of spiral springs to the balances of watches, together with the explanation of their action by the principle Ut tensio sic vis (1676).
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