ci

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noun

One of the Classical Chinese poetry forms

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Meanings

ci1

nounci (uncountable)
  1. uncountableOne of the Classical Chinese poetry forms

CI2

nounCI (countable and uncountable, plural CIs)

plural CIs

  1. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of civil infraction.
  2. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of cochlear implant.
  3. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of competitive intelligence.
  4. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of contextual inquiry.
  5. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of Companion, part of the Imperial Order of the Crown of India.
  6. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of corporate identity (“a specific design of a company, to be applied in all public appearances to be clearly distinguishable from its competitors”).
  7. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of creative industries.
  8. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of cast iron.
  9. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableball gamesInitialism of corner infielder.
  10. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableespionageInitialism of counterintelligence.
  11. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablegovernmentInitialism of chief inspector, a police rank used in Commonwealth countries.
  12. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablegovernmentInitialism of confidential informant or criminal informant.
  13. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablecomputingInitialism of continuous integration.
  14. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablemathematicsInitialism of confidence interval.
  15. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablehuman sciencesInitialism of comprehensible input.
  16. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablegovernmentInitialism of constitutional initiative.

    Three of the Montana professionals who signed onto the Oct. 17 letter spoke in a news conference about the letter and why they were supporting CI-128 and urging others to do so as well.

    2024 October 17, Blair Miller, “More than 250 Montana medical professionals sign letter supporting CI-128”, in Daily Montanan

Ci3

proper noun

cI4

nouncI (uncountable)
  1. abbreviationuncountablebiologyAbbreviated form of cylindrical inclusion.

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna unit of radioactivity equal to the amount of a radioactive isotope that decays at the rate of 37,000,000,000 disintegrations per second

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radioactivity unit

adjectivebeing one more than one hundred

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hundred and oneone hundred one101cardinal

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Origin

ci · noun

Borrowed from Mandarin 詞/词 (cí).

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Ci · proper noun

  1. Mandarin磁縣 /磁县
  2. EnglishCi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 磁縣 /磁县 (Cíxiàn).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 磁縣 /磁县
  • 磁縣 /磁县county
Chinese Mandarin 磁縣 /磁县
  • 磁縣 /磁县 (Cíxiàn)county
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APA

ci. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ci

MLA

“ci.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ci. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ci,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ci.

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