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"GIS" is a plural of: gi. |
Date "GIS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references) |
"GIS" is a common misspelling or typo for: gas, gig, gin, gist. |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | GIS Geographical Information System. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Agriculture | Geographic information systems. (references) |
Census | (Geographic Information System) A database system for the storage, retrieval, and maintenance of data about major aspects of the earth's surface. (references) |
Geological | A system, usually computer based, for the input, storage, retrieval, analysis and display of interpreted geographic data. The data base is typically composed of map-like spatial representations, often called coverages or layers. These layers may involve a three-dimensional matrix of time, location, and attribute or activity. A GIS may include digital line graph (DLG) data, digital elevation models (DEM), geographic names, land-use characterizations, land ownership, land cover, registered satellite and/or aerial photography along with any other associated or derived geographic data. (Geographic Information System). (references) |
Literature | Gis (g soft) i.e. Jesus. A corruption of Jesus or J. H. S. Ophelia says "By Gis and by St. Charity." (Hamlet, iv. 5.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | See:Geographic Information System. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
GIS | Danish | Geografisk informationssystem | Geography |
GIS | Dutch | Geografisch informatiesysteem | Computing, Statistics |
GIS | English | Genomic Institute of Singapore | N/A |
GIS | Finnish | Paikkatietojärjestelmä | Computing, Statistics |
GIS | German | Geographisches Informationssystem | Geography |
GIS | Greek | σύστημα γεωγραφικών πληροφοριών | Geography |
GIS | Italian | Sistema di informazione geografica | Computing, Statistics |
GIS | Spanish | Sistema de información geográfica | Environment |
GIS | Swedish | Geografiskt informationssystem | Environment |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: GIS |
| Specialty definitions using "GIS": Geographic Information System, Global Positioning System. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "GIS" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (lie), Spanish (chalk), Wolof (see). |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Deb Prevost, GIS specialist, discussing conservation measures with tribal chairman, Washoe County, NV. Credit: Ron Nichols. |  | Developing a wetland area into an outdoor classroom on the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation, Washoe County, NV; Deb Prevost, NRCS GIS specialist with tribal representative. Credit: Ron Nichols. |
 | Dudley Kubo and Barbra Fossum, GIS Operator, discuss natural resource inventories and GIS in Honolulu, HI. [Slide 97CS2956]. Credit: Ron Nichols. |  | GIs united against the war, Ft. Jackson : fighting men. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Vietnam, Cambodia, Kent, Augusta & Jackson : march May 30, Memorial Day : bring all the GIs home from S.E. Asia now. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Whose side are you on, theirs or Nixon's? : bring all the GIs home now! End the draft now!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Almost 100 percent of the GIS equipment for KDN's project is imported from foreign firms. (references) | |
GIS suppliers include Bentley Systems, ArcInfo, IDRISI, MapInfo, Erdas, GeoMap and GeoInfo. (references) | ||
In addition, foreign firms may find another opportunity from KEPCO's GIS project on its T&D network. (references) | ||
Economic History | Korea | U.S. firms will play a key role in these GIS infrastructure development efforts. (references) |
Korea | The purpose of the DMIS project, estimated at $3 million, is to deploy a GIS for disaster management. (references) | |
Korea | The first phase, completed in 2000, aimed to inform industries about GIS technology and its benefits. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "GIS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 83.46% of the time. "GIS" is used about 405 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 83.46% | 338 | 15,594 |
| Noun (proper) | 15.06% | 61 | 43,149 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.48% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 405 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "GIS": gis-based, gis-derived, gis-generated, gis-independent, gis-like, gis-type. | |
Ending with "GIS": dss-gis. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
gis | 1,304 | county gis iredell | 27 |
2003 county gis rfp us | 1,077 | county gis wake | 25 |
2003 california gis rfp | 804 | gis consulting | 24 |
gis job | 382 | mass gis | 24 |
fema gis | 158 | gps gis | 24 |
gis map | 120 | county gis union | 22 |
mecklenburg county gis | 83 | county gis randolph | 22 |
mecklenburg gis | 71 | gis training | 21 |
gis mapping | 70 | county gaston gis | 21 |
gis vermont | 66 | gis system | 21 |
gis software | 62 | gis clearinghouse | 21 |
gis job clearinghouse | 57 | free gis data | 19 |
catawba county gis | 56 | gis rfp wisconsin | 18 |
2003 county gis land record rfp | 54 | gis data depot | 17 |
gis data | 43 | grass gis | 17 |
cabarrus county gis | 38 | gis rfp texas | 16 |
free gis software | 32 | development gis hosting | 16 |
arcview gis | 30 | california gis rfp | 16 |
burke county gis | 27 | county gis stanly | 16 |
county gis lincoln | 27 | gis employment | 16 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "GIS": gisarme, gisarmes, gismo, gismos, gist, gists. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "GIS": aegis, corgis, egis, haggis, lungis, ragis, yagis, yogis. (additional references) | |
Words containing "GIS": aegises, agism, agisms, agist, agisted, agisting, agists, algologist, algologists, allergist, allergists, analogist, analogists, anesthesiologist, anesthesiologists, angelologist, angelologists, anthologist, anthologists, anthropologist, anthropologists, antiphlogistic, apologise, apologised, apologises, apologising, apologist, apologists, archaeologist, archaeologists, archeologist, archeologists, assemblagist, assemblagists, astrobiologist, astrobiologists, audiologist, audiologists, bacteriologist, bacteriologists, bibliopegist, bibliopegists, biggish, biologism, biologisms, biologist, biologistic, biologists, biotechnologist, biotechnologists, boggish. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-s" | |
-1 letter: is, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-s" | |
+1 letter: bigs, cigs, digs, egis, figs, ghis, gibs, gids, gies, gigs, gins, gips, gist, gits, jigs, migs, pigs, rigs, sigh, sign, sing, swig, vigs, wigs, zigs. | |
+2 letters: aegis, agios, agism, agist, brigs, dings, frigs, gadis, gains, gaits, gibes, gifts, gigas, gilds, gills, gilts, gimps, ginks, gipsy, girds, girls, girns, giros, girsh, girts, gismo, gists, gives, glias, glims, grids, grigs, grins, grips, grist, grits, guids, guise, highs, iglus, kings, lings, miggs, nighs, pings, prigs, ragis, rings, saiga, segni, sengi, siege, sighs, sight, sigil, sigma, signs, singe, sings, sling, sprig, staig, sting, suing, swigs, swing, tings, trigs, twigs, using, vigas, whigs, wings, yagis, yogis, zings. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 49 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .. ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01001001 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G I S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0049 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)414353 |
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