Vis
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Vis may refer to:
[edit] 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
[edit] 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.
[edit] People
- Rudi Vis (born 1941), British politician
Valnea Vis
[edit] 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.
[edit] See also
- All pages beginning with "Vis"
- All pages with titles containing "Vis"
- Vis-à-vis (disambiguation)
- Viz (disambiguation)
- Visibility (disambiguation)
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