CIS (disambiguation)
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For lower-case cis, see Cis (disambiguation).
CIS usually refers to:
- The 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
- Case Information Statement
- Center for Immigration Studies, Washington DC
- Centre for Independent Studies, Australia
- Chinese International School, Hong Kong
- Cisalpino train services
- Citizenship & Immigration Services (U.S.)
- Clinical information system
- Clinically isolated syndrome
- Close Interval Survey
- Colombo International School
- Collective investment scheme A scheme for people to invest together for a common goal. e.g Unit Trust or Mutual Fund.
- College in the Schools
- Community Innovation Survey of the European Union
- Communities in schools
- CompuServe Information Service
- Component information system
- Computer information systems
- Confederacy of Independent Systems (Star Wars)
- Configuration Interaction Singles: A variational quantum-chemical method for calculating excited states
- Contact image sensor
- Continuous Injection System: A fuel injection system developed by the Robert Bosch Group
- Continuous ink system
- Continuous Integration Server
- Coucil for International Service (1919-1927)
- Council of International Schools
- Co-operative Insurance Society: A British Insurance company
- CIS Tower, Manchester, England: The headquarters of the above Co-operative Insurance Society
- Copenhagen International School
- Critical Incident Stress
- Computer information system
- In hydraulics, CIS is an abbreviation for Cubic Inches per Second (a measure of the rate of flow)
- CIS solar cells: For the semiconductor Copper Indium Selenide (CuInSe2), see Copper indium gallium selenide
- Construction Industry Scheme, United Kingdom rules for handling payments by contractors to subcontractors for work in the construction industry
- Current Index to Statistics: a search engine for the statistics literature