(Kimya) CİS-: Having a pair of identical atoms or groups on the same side of a plane that passes through two carbon atoms linked by a double bond. Used of a geometric isomer: "cis-2-butene."
Card Information Structure -- a data block that maintains information about flash configuration The CIS description includes the types of memory devices in the regions, the physical geometry of these devices, and the partitions located on the flash
Commonwealth of Independent States The CIS was established in 1991 following the disintegration of the Soviet Union There are 12 member states: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus,Georgia, Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan
Commonwealth of Independent States A federation of self-governing states made up of Russia & most of the former USSR republics, for the purpose of coordinating affairs
The Commonwealth of Independent States (see also NIS and former Soviet Union) The term generally refers to the countries which used to be part of the Soviet Union, with the exception of the Baltics: Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan
A Latin preposition, sometimes used as a prefix in English words, and signifying on this side
Card information structure, contains information regarding the card identity as well as configuration information such as memory and I/O requirements
Commonwealth of Independent States Initially made up of Russia and the other Newly Independent States of the former Soviet Union
Card Information Services A PCMCIA setup protocol Carrier Detect Threshold A way of measuring how well a modem can detect valid data over noisy phone lines It is measured in negative dBm's (decibel-milliwatts) The bigger the number (the more negative) the better For example,45 dBm is better than40 dBm
Literally, on the same side Describes isomers in which similar substituents are on the same side of a C=C double bond or in adjacent coordination sites on a transition metal See trans
Stands for CompuServe Information Service, or simply CompuServe Wags often replace the S with a $ See CompuServe
"On the same side", describes isomers in which similar substituents are on the same side of a C=C double bond or in adjacent coordination sites on a transition metal See trans
Card Information Structure: A data structure written on every card that complies with the PCMCIA standard containing information about the formatting and organisation of the data on the card
Customer Information System, a system designed to manage all aspects of billing, payment, usage data, etc Some systems permit online access to accounts, allowing customers as well as individual departments, such as marketing, accounting and sales, free access to real time information
(compressed image sequence) (n ) The XILTM library's compressors store (generally related) compressed video frames in structures called CIS buffers The images might represent frames in a movie, pages in a document, and so on The data in the image sequence might have undergone compression If the data is compressed, it might be in cell or JPEG formats See also cell encoding, data compression
pré·cis précis The form précis is both the singular and the plural form. It is pronounced when it is the plural. A précis is a short written or spoken account of something, which gives the important points but not the details. A précis of the manuscript was sent to the magazine New Idea. = summary