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Definitions of nis word

abbreviation Technical meaning of NIS Network Information Service 3
noun nis a city in SE Serbia: a former capital of Serbia. 1
noun nis (obsolete) Contraction of ne is. 1
noun Definition of nis in Technology (networking, protocol) (NIS) Sun Microsystems' Yellow Pages (yp) client-server protocol for distributing system configuration data such as user and host names between computers on a network. Sun licenses the technology to virtually all other Unix vendors. The name "Yellow Pages" is a registered trademark in the United Kingdom of British Telecommunications plc for their (paper) commercial telephone directory. Sun changed the name of their system to NIS, though all the commands and functions still start with "yp", e.g. ypcat, ypmatch, ypwhich. 1
noun nis a friendly spirit or goblin thought to take care of a farmer's home, barn, stables, etc 0
noun nis an industrial town in Serbia, in the SE: situated on routes between central Europe and the Aegean. Pop: 203 670 (2002) 0

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A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 83% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.

Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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