Vis

Vis may refer to:

Geography

• Vis (island), a Croatian island in the Adriatic sea
• Vis (town), town and municipality on the island of Vis
• Vis, Bulgaria, a village in Ivaylovgrad municipality, Haskovo Province, Bulgaria
• Vis (river), in south-central France

Initialisms

• VIS (criminal organisation), Bulgarian front company for a criminal organisation
• Vaccine Information Statement, a formal description of a vaccine, required as a provision of the United States National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act
• Vanguard International Semiconductor Corporation, an IC foundry in Taiwan
• Vatican Information Service, an electronic daily news letter produced by the Holy See Press Office in the Vatican
• Vavoua International School, an international boarding school in Côte d'Ivoire founded by Worldwide Evangelisation for Christ
• Victorian Institute of Sport, a government sporting institute in Victoria, Australia
• Vienna Independent Shorts, an annual international short film festival in Austria
• Vienna International School, an international school in Austria founded to accommodate the children of UN employees and diplomats
• Viewable image size, the amount of screen space available on display without obstruction
• Visalia Municipal Airport, IATA airport code and FAA location identifier the public airport at Visalia, Tulare County, California
• Visa Information System, a database of fingerprints and facial scans in use by Schengen Zone countries
• Visual Instruction Set, a SIMD instruction set for SPARC processors
• Voter Information Service for Elections Canada
• VIS (automobile manufacturer) - VazInterSerice - the russian company of AvtoVAZ vechicle elements based pickups and semi-trailer trucks constructing.
• The Tandy Video Information System, an interactive, multimedia CD-ROM console system from the early 90s.

People

• Rudi Vis (born 1941), British politician

Valnea Vis

Other

• Vis medicatrix naturae, the healing power of nature, a phrase erroneously attributed to Hippocrates.
• Vis pistol, a type of Polish handgun.
• Potentially visible set, a form of polygon culling used to accelerate the rendering of 3D environments.
• Willem C. Vis Moot, the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, a prestigious moot held annually in Vienna, Austria.
• Vis, the possessive form of the English neologistic gender-neutral pronoun ve.
• Visible spectrum, especially in the combined form UV-VIS (ultraviolet and visible).
• VIS Entertainment - a video game developer based out of Scotland.

See also

• All pages beginning with "Vis"
• All pages with titles containing "Vis"
• Vis-à-vis (disambiguation)
• Viz (disambiguation)
• Visibility (disambiguation)