CIS

  1. (initialism) .  Commonwealth of Independent States.
  2. (initialism) .  (Canada) (sports) Canadian Interuniversity Sport.
  3. Adjective.  (biology) Having two mutations on two genes on the same chromosome of a homologous pair.
  4. Adjective.  (chemistry) (properly cis-) Describing a double bond in which the greater radical on both ends is on the same side of the bond.
  5. Adjective.  (context, LGBT) Not trans (transgender or transsexual); cisgender or cissexual.

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