CIS may refer to:

Computing

Card information structure In computing, PC Card is a configuration for computer parallel communication peripheral interface, designed for laptop computers. Originally introduced as PCMCIA, the PC Card standard as well as its successors like CardBus were defined and develop ...

, formatting and organization data stored on a PC card *

Center for Internet Security The Center for Internet Security (CIS) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, formed in October, 2000. Its mission is to make the connected world a safer place by developing, validating, and promoting timely best practice solutions that help peop ...

, cybersecurity benchmarks, controls, practices and tools * Center for Internet and Society (disambiguation) *

Comodo Internet Security Comodo Internet Security (CIS) is developed and distributed by Comodo Group, a freemium Internet security suite that includes an antivirus program, personal firewall, sandbox, host-based intrusion prevention system (HIPS) and website filtering ...

suite * CompuServe Information Service, a US commercial online service *

Computer information system A management information system (MIS) is an information system used for decision-making, and for the coordination, control, analysis, and visualization of information in an organization. The study of the management information systems involves peop ...

s, technologies which process data to solve business problems * Configuration interaction singles, a quantum-chemical method for computing electronic states *

Contact image sensor Contact image sensors (CIS) are image sensors used in flatbed scanners almost in direct contact with the object to be scanned. Charge-coupled device A charge-coupled device (CCD) is an integrated circuit containing an array of linked, or coup ...

, a technology developed for optical flatbed scanners *

Continuous ink system A continuous ink system (CIS), also known as a continuous ink supply system (CISS), a continuous flow system (CFS), an automatic ink refill system (AIRS), a bulk feed ink system (BFIS), or an off-axis ink delivery system (OIDS) is a method for ...

, for ink-jet printers

Education

Calcutta International School Calcutta International School (or CIS) is an international school, established in the late 1953s, in Kolkata, India. It is located in 724 Anandapur, West Bengal West Bengal (, Bengali: ''Poshchim Bongo'', , abbr. WB) is a state in the ...

, in India * Canadian International School (disambiguation) ** Canadian International School (Bangalore) **

Canadian International School Vietnam Canadian International School Vietnam (CIS; vi, Trường quốc tế Canada) is a private international school based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The school belongs to The Canadian International School System (CISS), along with three other ca ...

** Canadian International School of Sanya, in China **

Canadian International School (Singapore) The Canadian International School (CIS) is an international school in Singapore with a campus at Lakeside. CIS operates under International Baccalaureate Primary (IB PYP), Middle Years (IB MYP) and Diploma (IB DP) programmes. The school accept ...

Canadian International School (Tokyo) The Canadian International School in Tokyo (CIS, カナディアン・インターナショナル・スクール) is a Canadian curriculum international school in Shinagawa, and Nakameguro, Meguro Tokyo.Cayman International School Cayman International School (CIS) is a private school in Camana Bay, George Town, Grand Cayman Grand Cayman is the largest of the three Cayman Islands and the location of the territory's capital, George Town. In relation to the other two Ca ...

in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands *

Cebu International School Cebu International School (CIS), was founded as the Cebu American School in 1924, and renamed in 1973. It is a co-educational day school, non-profit, non-sectarian institution, governed by a ten-member Board of Trustees. The current legal status ...

, in the Philippines *

Chinese International School The Chinese International School is a private international school in Hong Kong. In 1994 it was the sole international school in Hong Kong that used English and Mandarin at about the same amount of time each as media of instruction. Histor ...

, in Hong Kong *

Clifford International School Clifford International School (CIS; ) is an international school located in Guangzhou, China. The school follows the Canadian curriculum, or, more precisely, the Manitoba study programs. CIS students are taught in English, and they also have Mand ...

, in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China *

College in the Schools A college (Latin: ''collegium'') is an educational institution or a University system, constituent part of one. A college may be a academic degree, degree-awarding Tertiary education, tertiary educational institution, a part of a coll ...

, a program for high school students run by the University of Minnesota, U.S. *

Colombo International School Colombo International School (CIS) is a private co-educational school in Colombo, Sri Lanka. It was founded in 1982 by Elizabeth Moir and employs an English-medium curriculum. In 1998 the school was expanded by the new Chairman of the Board of Di ...

, in Sri Lanka *

Communities In Schools Communities In Schools (CIS) is a non-profit organization based in America. CIS works within public and charter schools to help at-risk students. CIS works with schools in 25 states and the District of Columbia. In In February 2020, CIS announced ...

, a U.S. federation of organizations combating educational dropout *

Copenhagen International School Copenhagen International School (CIS) is an international, co-educational day school located in the Copenhagen metropolitan area, Denmark. It has around 930 students of over 80 nationalities. English is the primary language of instruction. CIS off ...

, in Denmark *

Council of International Schools The Council of International Schools (CIS) is a membership organization aimed at international education. CIS was formed in 1949. It has over 1,360 institutional members consisting of over 740 schools and 610 colleges/universities, located in 122 ...

, an international educational community organizations *

MIT Center for International Studies The MIT Center for International Studies (CIS) is an academic research center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It sponsors work focusing on international relations, security studies, international migration, human rights and justice, ...

, in Massachusetts, U.S.

Health

* Cancer Information Service, a program of the US National Institutes of Health *

Carcinoma in situ Carcinoma ''in situ'' (CIS) is a group of abnormal cells. While they are a form of neoplasm, there is disagreement over whether CIS should be classified as cancer. This controversy also depends on the exact CIS in question (i.e. cervical, skin, bre ...

, group of abnormal cells which may be cancer *

Clinically isolated syndrome A clinically isolated syndrome (CIS) is a clinical situation of an individual's first neurological episode, caused by inflammation or demyelination of nerve tissue. An episode may be monofocal, in which symptoms present at a single site in the cen ...

, an initial neurological episode related to nerve tissue *

Combined intracavernous injection and stimulation test Combined intracavernous injection and stimulation test or CIS test is the most commonly performed office diagnostic procedure for erectile dysfunction. It consists of an intracavernosal injection, visual or manual sexual stimulation, and a rating ...

, a diagnostic procedure for erectile dysfunction

Organizations

United States

Center for Immigration Studies The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) is an anti-immigration think tank and a SPLC designated hate group. It favors far lower immigration numbers, and produces analyses to further those views. The CIS was founded by historian Otis L. Graha ...

, an American anti-immigration think tank *

United States Citizenship and Immigration Services U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that administers the country's naturalization and immigration system. It is a successor to the Immigration and Naturalizati ...

, a US government agency

British

Christians in Science Christians in Science (CiS) is a British organisation of scientists, philosophers, theologians, ministers, teachers, and science students, predominantly evangelical Christians, concerned with the dialogue between Christianity and science. The organ ...

, a UK organization *

Co-operative Insurance Society Co-op Insurance is the trading name of CIS General Insurance, a general insurance company, which is part of the Co-operative Group, based in Manchester, United Kingdom. Co-op Insurance Services, an insurance intermediary incorporated in 2017, is ...

, a British insurance company

Canadian

Canadian Ice Service The Canadian Ice Service (CIS) is a division of the Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC), and a branch of Canada's Department of the Environment. The CIS is the leading authority for information about ice in Canada's navigable waters. Ice affect ...

, a division of the Meteorological Service of Canada *

Canadian Identification Society The Canadian Identification Society (CIS) is a bilingual (English- French) professional non-for-profit fellowship of police officers and civilian members who share interests and employment in crime scene investigation. Also known in French as (S ...

, of police and civilians in crime scene investigation *

Canadian Interuniversity Sport U Sports (stylized as U SPORTS) is the national sport governing body of university sport in Canada, comprising the majority of degree-granting universities in the country. Its equivalent body for organized sports at colleges in Canada is the Can ...

, a former name of the national governing body of university sport

Eurasian

Commonwealth of Independent States The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) is a regional intergovernmental organization in Eurasia. It was formed following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. It covers an area of and has an estimated population of 239,796,010. ...

, a Eurasian intergovernmental organization **

CIS national football team The Commonwealth of Independent States national football team (russian: Сборная СНГ по футболу, ''Sbornaya SNG po futbolu'') was a transitional national team of the Football Federation of the Soviet Union in 1992. It was acc ...

, a National association football team

Other

Centre for Independent Studies The Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) is an Australian libertarian think tank founded in 1976 which specialises in public policy research. It is based in Sydney and focuses on classical liberal issues such as free markets and limited governme ...

, an Australian libertarian think tank *

Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas The Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas ("Centre for Sociological Research") or CIS is a Spanish public research institute. It was founded in 1963 as the Instituto de la Opinión Pública, and in 1977, after the Spanish general election, 197 ...

, a Spanish public research institute *

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, Communications and Information Services Corps, Irish combat support corps *

Cisalpino Cisalpino AG () was a railway company, referred to as CIS in timetables, operating international trains between Switzerland and Italy connecting Basel, Schaffhausen, Zürich, Geneva, Milan, Venice, Trieste, Livorno, and Florence. The company h ...

, Swiss–Italian railway company (CIS in timetables) *

Commonwealth Police The Commonwealth Police (COMPOL) was the Government of Australia, federal law enforcement agency in Australia between 1917 and 1979. A federal police force was first established in 1917, and operated under different names and in some periods as mu ...

(Commonwealth Investigation Service), an Australian security service, 1945 to 1960

Other uses

Canton Island Airport Canton Island Airport is an airport located on Canton Island, a sparsely populated island in the Phoenix Islands of the Republic of Kiribati. It has a single asphalt runway measuring in length. Once a major stop on commercial trans-Pacific airli ...

, Kanton Island, Phoenix Islands, Kiribati, IATA code *

Capital Indoor Stadium The Capital Indoor Stadium () is an indoor arena in 56 Zhongguancun South Street, Beijing, China that was built in 1968. It hosted matches between national table tennis teams of China and the United States in 1971; these matches were part of the ...

, an indoor arena in Beijing, China *

Case Information Statement A Case Information Statement (or Cover Sheet) is a document which is filed with a court clerk at the commencement of a civil lawsuit in many of the court systems of the United States. It is generally filed along with the complaint. Some states u ...

, a document used in US civil lawsuits *

cis (mathematics) is a mathematical notation defined by , where is the cosine function, is the imaginary unit and is the sine function. The notation is less commonly used in mathematics than Euler's formula, which offers an even shorter notation for but cis ...

, a trigonometric mathematical function *

CIS Tower The CIS Tower is an office skyscraper on Miller Street in Manchester, England. Designed for the Co-operative Insurance Society (CIS) by architects Gordon Tait and G. S. Hay, the building was completed in 1962 and rises to 118 m (387 feet) in h ...

, a building in Manchester, England *

Common Intelligibility Scale Speech Transmission Index (STI) is a measure of speech transmission quality. The absolute measurement of speech intelligibility is a complex science. The STI measures some physical characteristics of a transmission channel (a room, electro-acoustic ...

, for speech intelligibility *

Community Innovation Survey The Community Innovation Surveys (CIS) are a series of statistical survey, surveys executed by national statistics, statistical offices throughout the European Union and in Norway and Iceland. The harmonized surveys are designed to give information ...

, a series of surveys throughout the European Union *

Confederacy of Independent Systems The Clone Wars are a series of fictional conflicts in the ''Star Wars'' franchise by George Lucas. Though mentioned briefly in the first ''Star Wars'' film (''A New Hope'', 1977), the war itself was not depicted until ''Attack of the Clones'' (2 ...

, a fictional entity in the ''Star Wars'' universe *

Continuous Injection System Manifold injection is a mixture formation system for internal combustion engines with external mixture formation. It is commonly used in engines with spark ignition that use petrol as fuel, such as the Otto engine, and the Wankel engine. In a mani ...

, a fuel injection system developed by the Robert Bosch Group *

Copper indium selenide Copper indium gallium (di)selenide (CIGS) is a I- III- VI2 semiconductor material composed of copper, indium, gallium, and selenium. The material is a solid solution of copper indium selenide (often abbreviated "CIS") and copper gallium selenide. ...

(CuInSe₂), used in solar cells and semiconductors *

Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum The ("Corpus of Semitic Inscriptions", abbreviated CIS) is a collection of ancient inscriptions in Semitic languages produced since the end of 2nd millennium BC until the rise of Islam. It was published in Latin. In a note recovered after his de ...

, a corpus of Semitic inscriptions