Vis, ViS, VIS, and other capitalizations may refer to:

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Vis (island) Vis (; ; la, Issa, it, Lissa) is a small Croatian island in the Adriatic Sea. It is the farthest inhabited island off the Croatian mainland. Before the end of World War I, the island was held by the Liburnians, the Republic of Venice, the Nap ...

, a Croatian island in the Adriatic sea **

Vis (town) Vis ( it, Lissa) is a town on the eponymous island in the Adriatic Sea in southern Croatia. Its population was 1,934 as of 2011. The town is the seat of the eponymous Vis municipality, one of the island's two municipalities (the other being Kom ...

, on the island of Vis *

Vis (river) The Vis is a river in south-central France, in the Occitanie administrative region. It is a right tributary of the Hérault. Its source is in the Cévennes, near the village of Alzon. It flows between the Causse du Larzac and the Causse de Blan ...

, in south-central France *

Vis, Bulgaria Vis ( bg, Вис) is a village in the municipality of Ivaylovgrad, in Haskovo Province, in southern Bulgaria.Guide Bulg ...

, a village in Haskovo Province * Visalia Municipal Airport (IATA and FAA:VIS), Visalia, California * Viš, a village in Montenegro

Organizations

Vanguard International Semiconductor Corporation Vanguard International Semiconductor Corporation (VIS) is a Taiwanese specialized IC foundry service provider, founded in December 1994 in Hsinchu Science Park by Morris Chang. In March 1998, VIS became a listed company on the Taiwan Over-The- ...

, an IC foundry in Taipei, Taiwan * Vasil Iliev Security (VIS and VIS-2), former front companies for a criminal organization in Bulgaria *

Vatican Information Service The Vatican Information Service (VIS) is an official, free news service of the Holy See Press Office, founded in 1991 in the Vatican City during the pontificate of Pope John Paul II. It transmits news on a daily basis at 3 p.m. local Rome time, ...

, the official news service of the Vatican * VAZInterService, an automobile manufacturer in Russia *

Vavoua International School Vavoua International School (VIS) was a boarding school operated by WEC International located east of the town of Vavoua on the road to Zuénoula. It was closed in 2002 due to political unrest in Ivory Coast. History Founded in 1970, the school ...

, an international boarding school in Côte d'Ivoire *

Victorian Institute of Sport The Victorian Institute of Sport (VIS) is the government-funded sporting institute of the Australian state of Victoria. It provides high performance sports programs for talented athletes, enabling them to achieve national and international succe ...

, a government sporting institute in Victoria, Australia *

Vienna Independent Shorts Vienna Shorts (formerly known as VIS Vienna Independent Shorts) is an international short subject, short film festival held annually in May in Vienna. It is the largest short film festival in Austria. History Vienna Independent Shorts was hel ...

, an annual international film festival in Vienna, Austria *

Vienna International School Vienna International School (VIS) is a non-profit List of international schools, international school in Vienna, Austria. The school was built to accommodate the children of United Nations (UN) employees and diplomats when the UN decided to locat ...

, a school for the children of UN employees and diplomats in Vienna, Austria *

VIS Entertainment VIS Entertainment Limited (formerly known as VIS Interactive) was a British video game developer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. The company was founded in 1996 by Chris van der Kuyl and Peter Baillie. In April 2003, VIS Entertainment acquired B ...

, a former video game developer in Scotland *

Viacom International Studios Paramount International Networks (PIN) is the international division of Paramount Global. The division oversees the production, broadcasting and promotion of key Paramount's brands outside of the United States. These brands include Paramount Net ...

, a division of Paramount International Networks

Science and technology

Vaccine Information Statement A Vaccine Information Statement (VIS) is a document designed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to provide information to a patient receiving a vaccine in the United States. The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act requires t ...

, a formal vaccine description published by the United States Centers for Disease Control *

Variable Intake System Variable may refer to: * Variable (computer science), a symbolic name associated with a value and whose associated value may be changed * Variable (mathematics), a symbol that represents a quantity in a mathematical expression, as used in many ...

, a technology of internal combustion engines *

Tandy Video Information System The Tandy Memorex Video Information System (VIS) is an interactive, multimedia CD-ROM player produced by the Tandy Corporation starting in 1992. It is similar in function to the Philips CD-i and Commodore CDTV systems (particularly the CDTV, si ...

, a multimedia CD-ROM console from the early 1990s *

Viewable image size On 2D displays, such as computer monitors and TVs, the display size (or viewable image size or VIS) is the physical size of the area where pictures and videos are displayed. The size of a screen is usually described by the length of its diago ...

, the amount of screen space available on display without obstruction *

Visible spectrum The visible spectrum is the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visual perception, visible to the human eye. Electromagnetic radiation in this range of wavelengths is called ''visible light'' or simply light. A typical human eye wil ...

, the portion of the electromagnetic radiation spectrum that is visible to the human eyes *

Visual Instruction Set Visual Instruction Set, or VIS, is a SIMD instruction set extension for SPARC V9 microprocessors developed by Sun Microsystems. There are five versions of VIS: VIS 1, VIS 2, VIS 2+, VIS 3 and VIS 4. History VIS 1 was introduced in 1994 and was fi ...

, a SIMD instruction set for SPARC processors *

Visa Information System The European Union Visa Information System (VIS) is a database containing information, including biometrics, on visa applications by Third Country Nationals requiring a visa to enter the Schengen area. The system was established in June 2004 by t ...

, a biometric database for visa applications in the Schengen area of the EU

Other uses

Vis (surname) Vis is a Dutch metonymic occupational surname. ''Vis'' means "fish" and referred to a fisherman.neologistic gender-neutral pronoun ''ve'' * FB Vis, a type of Polish handgun * The heroine of the 11th century Persian love story

Vis and Rāmin Vis and Rāmin ( fa, ويس و رامين, ''Vis o Rāmin'') is a classical Persian love story. The epic was composed in poetry by Fakhruddin As'ad Gurgani (or "Gorgani") in the 11th century. Gorgani claimed a Sassanid origin for the story, but i ...

Willem C. Vis Moot The Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot or Vis Moot is an international moot competition. Since 1994, it has been held annually in Vienna, Austria, attracting more than 300 law schools from all around the world and spurring the ...

, an international arbitration moot court held annually in Vienna, Austria

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