CIS may refer to:

Computing

Card information structure PC Card is a technical standard specifying an expansion card interface for laptops and personal digital assistants, PDAs. The PCMCIA originally introduced the 16-bit Industry Standard Architecture, ISA-based PCMCIA Card in 1990, but renamed it to ...

, formatting and organization data stored on a PC card * Center for Internet Security, 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 filter ...

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

Computer and information science Computer and information science (CIS; also known as information and computer science) is a field that emphasizes ''both'' computing and informatics, upholding the strong association between the fields of information sciences and computer scienc ...

, a field that emphasizes both computing and informatics * Computer information systems, technologies which process data to solve business problems * Configuration interaction singles, a quantum-chemical method for computing electronic states * Contact image sensor, a technology developed for optical flatbed scanners * Continuous ink system, for ink-jet printers

Education

* Calcutta International School, in India * Canadian International School (disambiguation) ** Canadian International School (Bangalore) ** Canadian International School Vietnam ** Canadian International School of Sanya, in China ** Canadian International School (Singapore) ** Canadian International School (Tokyo) *

Cayman International School Cayman International School (CIS) is a private school in Camana Bay, George Town, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands The Cayman Islands () is a self-governing British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory, and the largest by populati ...

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 Chinese International School is a private international school in Hong Kong. History The school opened in 1983, with an initial intake of approximately 75 students in Years 1 to 3. Its first location was at 7 Eastern Hospital Road in Caus ...

, in Hong Kong * Clifford International School, in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China *

College in the Schools College in the Schools (CIS) is an educational program for Minnesota high school students run by the University of Minnesota. It allows students to take college level classes in their high school and, as a result, earn college and high school credit ...

, 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 D ...

, in Sri Lanka *

Communities In Schools Communities In Schools (CIS) is an American non-profit organization that works within State school, public and charter schools with the aim of helping at-risk students stay in school. CIS works with schools in 25 states and the Washington, D.C., D ...

, 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 o ...

, in Denmark *

Council of International Schools The Council of International Schools (CIS) is a membership organization aimed at international education. CIS was formed in 2003. It has over 1,500 institutional members consisting of over 800 schools and 600 colleges/universities, located in ...

, 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 The Cancer Information Service (CIS) is a program of the National Cancer Institute that provides a telephone hotline for people to receive information on cancer care, prevention, research, and clinical trials. Started in 1975, the CIS now also inclu ...

, a program of the US National Institutes of Health * Carcinoma ''in situ'', 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 ce ...

, 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 American anti-immigration think tank. It favors far lower immigration numbers and produces analyses to further those views. The CIS was founded by historian Otis L. Graham alongside eugenicist a ...

, an American anti-immigration think tank *

United States Citizenship and Immigration Services United States 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 to the United States, immigration system. History ...

, a US government agency

British

* Christians in Science, a UK organization * Co-operative Insurance Society, a British insurance company

Canadian

* Canadian Ice Service, a division of the Meteorological Service of Canada * Canadian Identification Society, of police and civilians in crime scene investigation *

Canadian Interuniversity Sport U Sports (stylized as U SPORTS) is the national sport governing body for universities in Canada, comprising the majority of degree-granting universities in the country and four regional conferences: Ontario University Athletics (OUA), Résea ...

, 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 organization, regional intergovernmental organization in Eurasia. It was formed following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. It covers an ar ...

, a Eurasian intergovernmental organization **

CIS national football team The Commonwealth of Independent States national football team (, ''Sbornaya SNG po futbolu'') was a transitional national team of the Football Federation of the Soviet Union in 1992. It was accepted that the team would represent the Commonweal ...

, a National association football team

Other

Centre for Independent Studies The Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) is an Australian think tank founded in 1976 by Greg Lindsay. The CIS specialises in public policy research and publishes material in areas such as economics, education, culture and foreign policy. Alth ...

, an Australian libertarian think tank *

Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas Centro may refer to: Places Brazil *Centro, Santa Maria, a neighborhood in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil * Centro, Porto Alegre, a neighborhood of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil * Centro (Duque de Caxias), a neighborhood of Du ...

, a Spanish public research institute * CIS Corps (Ireland), Communications and Information Services Corps, Irish combat support corps * Cisalpino, Swiss–Italian railway company (CIS in timetables) *

Commonwealth Police The Commonwealth Police (COMPOL) was the 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 multiple organisations. I ...

(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 a ...

, 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 {{Civil procedure (United States) 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 ...

, 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. is the argument of the complex number (angle between line to point and x-axis in polar form). The notation is less commo ...

, a trigonometric mathematical function * CIS Tower, a building in Manchester, England * Common Intelligibility Scale, for speech intelligibility * Community Innovation Survey, a series of surveys throughout the European Union *

Confederacy of Independent Systems The Clone Wars, also known as the Separatist Crisis, is a fictional three-year conflict 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 depic ...

, a fictional entity in the ''Star Wars'' universe * Continuous Injection System, a fuel injection system developed by the Robert Bosch Group * Copper indium selenide (CuInSe₂), used in solar cells and semiconductors * Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum, a corpus of Semitic inscriptions