Usually means: Force or power in Latin.
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We found 43 dictionaries that define the word vis:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. Vis, vis: Merriam-Webster
  2. Vis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Vis, Vis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Vis, vis: Collins English Dictionary
  5. VI's, Vi's, Vis, Vis, vis, vis, vis-: Wordnik
  6. Vis, vis: Wiktionary
  7. vis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. vis: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. Vis, Vis, vis: Dictionary.com
  10. vis: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. VIS (criminal organisation), VIS, Vis (island), Vis (river), Vis (surname), Vis (town), Vis (weapon), Vis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Vis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. vis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Vis: Rhymezone
  15. Vis, vis (de), vis (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. VIS: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  17. vis: FreeDictionary.org
  18. vis: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. Vis, Vis: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vis-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Vis: A DICTIONARY OF LAW (1893)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. International Law Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Vis, vis: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  2. Vis, Vis: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. vis: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. VIS: Acronym Finder
  2. VIS: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. Vis: Idioms
  5. United States Postal Service Official Abbreviations (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. VIS: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. vis: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Vis: Urban Dictionary
  3. The Vis: Urban Dictionary

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  4. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See vires as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (vis)

noun:  Force; energy; might; power.
noun:  A town on the eponymous island in the Adriatic Sea in southern Croatia. It has a population of 1,934 residents (as of 2011)
noun:  An island in the Adriatic Sea.
noun:  Abbreviation of viscount. [A member of the peerage, above a baron but below a count or earl.]
noun:  Alternative spelling of viss [(Myanmar) A Burmese unit of measure for weight, approximately 1.63293 kilograms (3.6 pounds).]
adjective:  Clipping of visual. [Related to or affecting the vision.]
verb:  Clipping of visualize. [US and Oxford British English spelling of visualise]
noun:  Clipping of visualization. [The act of visualizing, or something visualized.]
noun:  Clipping of visual. [Any element of something that depends on sight.]
noun:  Clipping of visibility. [(uncountable) The condition of being visible.]

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