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Webster Dictionary

  1. Visnoun

    force; power

  2. Visnoun

    physical force

  3. Visnoun

    moral power

  4. Etymology: [L.]

Wikidata

  1. Vis

    Vis is a small Croatian island in the Adriatic Sea. The farthest Island off the Croatian Coast, it has a population of 3,617 and an area of 90.26 square kilometres. The highest point is Hum, 587 metres above sea level. The islands two largest communities are town of Vis, the islands commercial port located in the east, and Komiža in the west. The Municipality of Vis, which includes the offshore islands of Budikovac and Biševo, is part of the Split-Dalmatia Regional Unit. The main industries on the island are agriculture, fishing, fish refining and tourism. The current mayor of Vis is Ivo Radica.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Vis

    vis, n. force: power:—pl. Vī′res.—Vis inertiæ, inertia: sluggishness; Vis mortua, force of pressure, dead force; Vis viva, living force, equal to the mass of a moving body multiplied by the square of its velocity. [L.]

CrunchBase

  1. ViS

    ViS provides a game-changing analytics platform for the planning of clinical trials. Pharmaceutical trials are required for the evaluation of new medicines, and ViS’ collaborative analytics radically improves cost-efficiency in the selection of research centers for trial participation.ViS provides the only interactive map of global clinical research infrastructure, which achieves two objectives: I) allows trial planners to quickly find centers and make sense of vast amounts of comparative multi-dimensional analytics, going easily from the country level down to that of the center; and II) enables the more than 400,000 globally distributed research centers to securely and efficiently showcase their technical disease-specific capabilities to trial planners, while also connecting with collaborating centers that can lead to future projects.

Suggested Resources

  1. VIS

    What does VIS stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the VIS acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. VIS

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Vis is ranked #27556 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Vis surname appeared 874 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Vis.

    94% or 822 total occurrences were White.
    2.6% or 23 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.8% or 16 total occurrences were Asian.
    0.9% or 8 total occurrences were of two or more races.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of vis in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of vis in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of vis in a Sentence

  1. Benjamin Netanyahu:

    I have made clear that whoever hurts us, we will hurt him, this is what we did overnight vis-a-vis military targets of the Iranian Al Quds force and Syrian military targets in Syria after a barrage of rockets was launched at Israel.

  2. Jalel Harchaoui:

    Beyond France's prestige and commercial opportunities, an effective French diplomacy must ask what levers it can use vis-à-vis recalcitrant actors, it seems this basic question is no longer being asked in Paris.

  3. Peter Beyer:

    There are justified doubts about whether a company that is close to the Chinese government can credibly achieve these security standards, which are imperative for such highly sensitive applications, it is self-evident that we will reach all decisions independently and responsibly in line with our interests, also vis a vis our partners.

  4. Nivedita Gupta:

    Our preventive measures have been very effective. We are in a much better position vis-a-vis other countries.

  5. Corey Wallace:

    Both sides have started to adjust their perceptions of the value of trilateral security cooperation and the costs of bilateral antagonism vis-a-vis North Korea.

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