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Look up: vis

  1. vis
    Latin, meaning: (sing.) violence / a large number, quantity, a force / nature
    Found on http://archives.nd.edu/vvv.htm

  2. VIS
    acronym: visible
    Found on http://cdiac.ornl.gov/pns/acronyms.html#

  3. vis
    abbreviation: visibility
    Found on http://www.apscharts.com/abbrev.html

  4. VIS
    Video Information System [Tandy] + Viewable Image Size + Visual Instruction Set [Sun] + Voice Information System
    Found on http://www.geocities.com/ikind_babel/bab

  5. vis
    A term for violence or force.
    Found on http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/temetfutue/gl

  6. Vis
    Vis noun 1. Force; power. 2. (Law) (a) Physical force. (b) Moral power. Principle of vis viva (Mech.) , the principle that the difference between the aggregate work of the accelerating forces of a system and that of the retarding forces is equal to one half the vis viva accumulated or lost in the system while the work is bei ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/V/29

  7. vis
    1. Force; power. ... 2. Physical force. Moral power. ... <physiology> Principle of vis viva, living force; the force of a body moving against resistance, or doing work, in distinction from vis mortua, or dead force; the kinetic energy of a moving body; the capacity of a moving body to do work by reason of its being in motion. See Kinetic energy ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  8. Vis
    `Vis` can refer to: * VIS (criminal organisation) in Bulgaria * Vis (weapon), a type of Polish handgun * Vis (island), an island in the Adriatic * Vis (town), town and municipality on the aforementioned island * 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 th...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vis

  9. Vis
    • (n.) Force; power. • (n.) Moral power. • (n.) Physical force.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  10. Vis
    Croatian island in the Adriatic Sea, the outermost major island of the Dalmatian archipelago. Its area is 35 square miles (90 square km), and its ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/v/28

  11. vis
    vis Force; power; energy; violence; faculty. The singular form is vis; the plural form is vires.
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  12. vis
    Force, energy, or power. [L. force]
    Found on

  13. Vis
    Vis (vēs) , Gr. Issa, Ital. Lissa, island (1991 pop. 4,338), 35 sq mi (91 sq km), Croatia, off the Dalmatian coast in the Adriatic. A popular resort, its chief industries are fishing, citrus farming, and wine making. Its chief town, also named Vis, is a picturesque village on the north coast. ...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/world/A085


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