cis
IPA: sɪs
noun
- Initialism of Commonwealth of Independent States.
- (UK, business) Initialism of Construction Industry Scheme.
- (Canada, sports, historical) Initialism of Canadian Interuniversity Sport, former name of U Sports.
- Initialism of contact image sensor.
- (medicine, software, acronym, initialism) Abbreviation of clinical information system.
adjective
- (biology) Having two mutations on two genes on the same chromosome of a homologous pair.
- (cytology) Of the side of the Golgi apparatus nearer to the endoplasmic reticulum.
- (chemistry) In (or constituting, forming, or describing) a double bond in which the greater radical on both ends is on the same side of the bond.
- (chemistry) In (or constituting, forming, or describing) a coordination compound in which the two instances of a particular ligand are adjacent to each other.
- Cisgender (or sometimes cissexual): not trans (transgender or transsexual) nor non-binary.
- (proscribed) Alternative letter-case form of cis (“cisgender”). [(biology) Having two mutations on two genes on the same chromosome of a homologous pair.]
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Examples of "cis" in Sentences
- I did mean “we” as in cis feminists and obviously I should have made that distinction.
- If nothing else, you have definitely made me understand the problem with the term cis-gendered a term I’ve previously liked.
- This refocusing on to cis (non-trans) concerns is an all too common reaction when trans people try to discuss trans issues in cis (non-trans) spaces.
- (Just don’t even start me on the “justify your entire existence” flavour of transphobia so routinely and uncompromisingly imposed on trans women by certain cis women feminists)
- What is starting to undermine my faith in cis humanity is the refusal to face the facts and the continuing failure to stand with us against this escalating spiral of transphobic bigotry and violence.
- I don’t think that there are any people in these threads who hold those views (trans-ness as inherently radical), but I do know a few people in person who hold those views, and I think it was from one of them (who is himself non-trans) that I learned the term cis-gendered.
- I suspect that people who are offended by the term cis-gendered have probably mostly heard it used by people (trans or non-trans) who take the position that the trans in transgender refers to transgressing gender, by people who view being transgender as a radical act in relation to the gender system (with the implication that it is the radical act in relation to the gender system).
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