cis

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cis"

Translingual

Etymology

Abbreviation, presumably from either English cosine and sine and the number i or translingual cos, i, and sin.

Symbol

cis

1. (mathematics) The function ${\displaystyle \mathrm {cis} (x)=\cos x+i\sin x}$.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɪs/

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• Rhymes: -ɪs
• Homophone: sis

Etymology 1

From Latin cis (“on this side (of), on the near or same side”). Doublet of he, it, here, hither, and hence.

Adjective

cis (not comparable)

1. (biology) Having two mutations on two genes on the same chromosome of a homologous pair.
2. (cytology) Of the side of the Golgi apparatus nearer to the endoplasmic reticulum.
3. (physical 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.
   • 1984, American Chemical Society. Division of Polymer Chemistry, Papers Presented at the ... Meeting:

     9 is thought to survive longer when the CH = CH bond is cis and to favour the formation of another cis double bond in a propagation reaction involving its displacement by monomer. 10, on the other hand, is more likely to yield a trans double bond […]

   • 2007, Vickie A. Vaclavik, Elizabeth W. Christian, Essentials of Food Science, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 277:

     However, a cis double bond causes a kink in the chain. (A cis double bond introduces a bend of about 42 into the linear hydrocarbon chain.)

   • 2015, William P Edwards, The Science of Bakery Products, Royal Society of Chemistry, →ISBN, page 26:

     A cis double bond is one where the hydrogen atoms are both on the same side. In contrast, a trans double bond has them on the opposite side.

4. (physical chemistry) In (or constituting, forming, or describing) a coordination compound in which the two instances of a particular ligand are adjacent to each other.

   The cis effect is the labilization of ligands which are cis to certain other ligands.

Antonyms

• trans

Related terms

• cis-
• cisalpine
• cis-gender
• cis-trans isomerism

Translations

biology

chemistry

Chinese: Cantonese: 順式 / 顺式 (seon6 sik1) Mandarin: 順式 / 顺式 (zh) (shùnshì) (shùnshì) French: cis (fr) Japanese: シス Russian: цис- (cis-)

Etymology 2

Clipping of cisgender or cissexual, ultimately from Latin cis.

Alternative forms

• CIS (proscribed)

Adjective

cis (not comparable)

2. Cisgender (or sometimes cissexual): not trans (transgender or transsexual) nor non-binary.

   Coordinate term: trans

   • 2017 November 21, Trish Bendix, quoting Ashlee Marie Preston, “Why it matters that transgender women are speaking out about Jeffrey Tambor — and that people are listening”, in Yahoo! Lifestyle‎:

     We're demonized and criminalized as perverts out to trick and deceive cis hetero men; therefore anything that happens to us, we 'had coming.'

   • 2019 January 17, James Acaster: Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999‎, spoken by James Acaster:

     Oh yeah, because you know who's been long overdue a challenge? The trans community. Oh, they've had their guard down for too long if you ask me. They'll all be checking their privilege on the way home now thanks to you, you brave little cis boy!

   • 2019 September 24, Jonathan Van Ness, Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love, HarperCollins, →ISBN, pages 117–118:

     The reality is that LGBTQ+ people face challenges at disproportionally higher rates than their straight counterparts — drug use, sex work, and financial instability can be an unfortunate result. My privilege as a young cis white man whose parents weren't going to let me drown afforded me the ability to make those mistakes and live to talk about it.

Usage notes

• Compare cis- and its usage notes. See also the usage notes for cis and cisgender in the latter's entry.

Derived terms

• allocishet
• anticistamines
• cisbi
• cis female
• cisgender
• cis guy
• cishet
• cis lesbian
• cis male
• cis man
• cisman
• cisnormative
• cisnormativity
• cisoid
• cis person
• cisphobia
• cis privilege
• cissexual
• cissplain
• cistem
• cistemic
• cister
• cis woman
• ciswoman
• still cis though

Translations

cisgender

Esperanto: cisgenra French: cis (fr) German: cis (de) Italian: cis Norwegian: please add this translation if you can Polish: cis (pl) Polish: cis (pl) Spanish: cis (es) Swedish: cis (sv)

Anagrams

• -ics, CSI, ICS, ICs, I²Cs, SCI, SIC, Sci., sci, sci., sic

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sɪs]

Noun

cis n (indeclinable)

1. C-sharp

Further reading

• “cis”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “cis”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sis/

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• Rhymes: -is

Noun

cis f (plural cissen, diminutive cisje n)

1. (music) C-sharp