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Princeton's WordNet
six, 6, VI, sixer, sise, Captain Hicks, half a dozen, sextet, sestet, sextuplet, hexadnoun
the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one
United States Virgin Islands, American Virgin Islands, VIadjective
more than 130 southeastern Virgin Islands; a dependent territory of the United States
six, 6, vi, half dozen, half-dozenadjective
denoting a quantity consisting of six items or units
Wiktionary
Vinoun
A diminutive of the female given names Violet and Viola.
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vi
There isn't a clear definition for "vi" as it could mean several things depending on the context. It could refer to the Roman numeral for "6", or to "vi", a popular text editor in the Unix operating system. It could also be an abbreviations for various terms in different fields like Virgin Islands in geographical context, Visual impairment in medical field, etc. Therefore, a specific context is needed to provide an accurate definition.
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vi
vi is a screen-oriented text editor originally created for the Unix operating system. The portable subset of the behavior of vi and programs based on it, and the ex editor language supported within these programs, is described by the Single Unix Specification and POSIX. The original code for vi was written by Bill Joy in 1976, as the visual mode for a line editor called ex that Joy had written with Chuck Haley. Bill Joy's ex 1.1 was released as part of the first BSD Unix release in March, 1978. It was not until version 2.0 of ex, released as part of Second Berkeley Software Distribution in May, 1979 that the editor was installed under the name vi, and the name by which it is known today. Some current implementations of vi can trace their source code ancestry to Bill Joy; others are completely new, largely compatible reimplementations. The name vi is derived from the shortest unambiguous abbreviation for the command visual in ex; the command in question switches the line editor ex to visual mode. The name vi is pronounced, or. In addition to various non–free software implementations of vi distributed with proprietary implementations of Unix, several free and open source software implementations of vi exist. A 2009 survey of Linux Journal readers found that vi was the most widely used text editor among respondents, beating gedit, the second most widely used editor by nearly a factor of two.
The New Hacker's Dictionary
vi
[from ‘Visual Interface’] A screen editor crufted together by Bill Joy for an early BSD release. Became the de facto standard Unix editor and a nearly undisputed hacker favorite outside of MIT until the rise of EMACS after about 1984. Tends to frustrate new users no end, as it will neither take commands while expecting input text nor vice versa, and the default setup on older versions provides no indication of which mode the editor is in (years ago, a correspondent reported that he has often heard the editor's name pronounced /vi:l/; there is now a vi clone named vile). Nevertheless vi (and variants such as vim and elvis) is still widely used (about half the respondents in a 1991 Usenet poll preferred it), and even EMACS fans often resort to it as a mail editor and for small editing jobs (mainly because it starts up faster than the bulkier versions of EMACS). See holy wars.
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VI
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Vi is ranked #29528 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Vi surname appeared 799 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Vi.
75.5% or 604 total occurrences were Asian.
10.3% or 83 total occurrences were White.
9.1% or 73 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
2.6% or 21 total occurrences were of two or more races.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of vi in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of vi in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
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