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CIS

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Multiple Entries:
CIS cis-

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
CIS/siːʌɪˈes/

▶abbreviation Commonwealth of Independent States.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
cis-/sɪs/

▶prefix

1 on this side of: cislunar.
■ historical on the side nearer to Rome: cisalpine.

2 closer to the present: cis-Elizabethan.

3 Chemistry (usu. cis-) denoting molecules in which two particular atoms or groups lie on the same side of a given plane, in particular denoting an isomer in which substituents at opposite ends of a carbon–carbon double bond are on the same side of the bond: cis-1,2-dichloroethene.

– origin from L. cis.

'CIS' also found in these Oxford entries:

chisel - cis- - cisplatin - cispontine - cistron

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