CIS
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For lower-case cis, see Cis (disambiguation).
CIS usually refers to:
- Commonwealth of Independent States, a modern-day political entity consisting of 11 former Soviet Union Republics
CIS is also an acronym for:
- Canadian Interuniversity Sport
- Cancer Information Service
- Carcinoma in situ
- Card information structure
- Center for Immigration Studies
- Centre for Independent Studies
- The Center for Internet Security
- Chinese International School
- CIS (rugby), The Commonwealth of Independent States rugby team
- Cisalpino
- Citizenship & Immigration Services (U.S.)
- Clinical information system
- Clinically isolated syndrome
- Colombo International School
- CompuServe Information Service
- Confederacy of Independent Systems (Star Wars)
- Contact image sensor
- Continuous Injection System: A fuel injection system developed by the Robert Bosch Group.
- Continuous ink system
- Council of International Schools
- Co-operative Insurance Society: An English Insurance company
- CIS Tower, Manchester, England: The headquarters of the above organisation.
- Copenhagen International School
- Management information system, also known as a "computer information system"
- In hydraulics, CIS is an abbreviation for Cubic Inches per Second (a measure of the rate of flow).
- CIS solar cells: Copper-Indium-Diselenid (CuInSe2)