VIS
\vˈɪs], \vˈɪs], \v_ˈɪ_s]\
Definitions of VIS
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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Force; power. Vis inertioe, the resistance in a body to change either its state of rest or state of motion; inert state or unwillingness to change a habit. Vis viva, living force, or kinetic energy. Vis mortua, dead force, or force doing no work.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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