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VI

 
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Virgin Islands (approved esp. for use with zip code).

Vi

 
Symbol, Chemistry.
virginium.

V.I.

 
1. Vancouver Island.
2. Virgin Islands.

v.i.

 
1. intransitive verb.
2. see below.
Origin:
< L vidē infrā
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VI  
abbr.  
  1. also V.I. Virgin Islands
  2. volume indicator
Virgin Islands  
  1. Abbr. V.I. A group of islands of the northeast West Indies east of Puerto Rico. They are divided politically into the British Virgin Islands to the northeast and the Virgin Islands of the United States to the southwest. The islands were first sighted and named by Christopher Columbus in 1493.
  2. Abbr. VI or V.I.Officially Virgin Islands of the United States. A United States territory constituting the southwest group of the Virgin Islands. The islands were purchased from the Danish in 1917 because of their strategic location at the approach to the Panama Canal. Charlotte Amalie, on St. Thomas Island, is the capital. Population: 108,000.
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vi

/V-I/, _not_ /vi:/ and _never_ /siks/ n. [from `Visual Interface'] A screen editor crufted together by Bill Joy for an early BSD release. Became the de facto standard Unix editor and a nearly undisputed hacker favorite outside of MIT until the rise of EMACS after about 1984. Tends to frustrate new users no end, as it will neither take commands while expecting input text nor vice versa, and the default setup on older versions provides no indication of which mode the editor is in (years ago, a correspondent reported that he has often heard the editor's name pronounced /vi:l/; there is now a vi clone named `vile'). Nevertheless vi (and variants such as vim and elvis) is still widely used (about half the respondents in a 1991 Usenet poll preferred it), and even EMACS fans often resort to it as a mail editor and for small editing jobs (mainly because it starts up faster than the bulkier versions of EMACS). See holy wars.
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Language Translation for : vi
Spanish: nosotros; nosotras,
German: wir (pl.),
Japanese: 私達は
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Main Entry: Vi
Function: abbreviation
virulent
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vi
1. Visual Interface.
2. The country code for the U. S. Virgin Islands.
[The Jargon File]
(1999-01-27)

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vi
Vietnamese
VI
  1. Vancouver Island
  2. Virgin Islands
  3. volume indicator
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