Force; energy; might; power.
"The patient's eyes were examined using vis to assess visual acuity after the surgery."
Abbreviation of viscount.
Alternative spelling of viss
plural of VI
In plain English: Vis is an old-fashioned word for physical strength or power that someone has inside them to do something hard.
"The doctor gave him three days' vis to recover before returning to work."
A town on the eponymous island in the Adriatic Sea in southern Croatia. It has a population of 1,934 residents (as of 2011)
"Vis is a quiet coastal town on its own namesake island in southern Croatia with just over one thousand nine hundred residents."
The word comes from the Latin vīs, which originally meant force or power. It traveled into English to describe physical strength or mental energy rather than just retaining its original sense of raw power.